PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Gaedcke, Heinrich
Date of birth: January 16th, 1895 (Gruden/Brandenburg, Germany)
Date of death:  December 21st, 1992 (Waldesch/Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
Nationality:  German
BIOGRAPHY: 
During the Second World War he reached the rank of Generalmajor and served after the war with the Bundeswehr, where he finally reached the rank of Generalleutnant.
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Major im Generalstab
Unit: Stab / 25.Infanterie-Division (motorisiert)
Awarded on: March 7th, 1942
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Oberst im Generalstab
Unit: Chef Generalstab XI.Armeekorps
Awarded on: April 7th, 1944
 
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Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
- Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X
- Ritterkreuz Archiv IV/2008, Veit Scherzer, Ranis, Dezember 2008, ISSN 1866-4709
- Gubener Zeitung 10 Mai 1944
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