PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Keese, Heinrich
Date of birth: April 28th, 1918 (Unsen/Hannover, Duitsland)
Nationality:  German
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Awarded on: July 13th, 1941
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Awarded on: June 6th, 1942
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Leutnant der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit: Pionier-Bataillon 20
Awarded on: January 3rd, 1944
Details: Award 570/5.
 
     
EHRENBLATTSPANGE DES HEERES UND WAFFEN-SS
Awarded on: July 27th, 1944
Details: 3624th Award.
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Oberleutnant der Reserve (1st Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit: Chef 2. / Pionier-Bataillon 20 (motorisiert) / 20.Panzer-Grenadier-Division / XXXXVI.Panzer-Korps / 4.Panzer-Armee / Heeresgruppe A
Awarded on: October 20th, 1944
Details: 3863rd Award.
 
     
RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB
Rank: Major der Reserve
Unit: Kommandeur Pionier-Bataillon 20 (motorisiert) / 20.Panzer-Grenadier-Division / Panzer-Korps „Großdeutschland“ / 4.Panzer-Armee / Heeresgruppe Mitte
Awarded on: March 28th, 1945
Details: 805th Award.
 
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Picture source:   - Willi Schumacher Collection
Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Kwasny A., Kwasny G., Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945 (CD), Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv, Lage-Waddenhausen, 2001
- 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
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