PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Knaust, Hans-Peter
Date of birth: August 7th, 1906 (Kiel/Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Date of death:  October 22nd, 1983 (Kevelaer/North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Nationality:  German
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Awarded on: May 24th, 1940
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Awarded on: July 21st, 1940
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Major
Unit: II. / Schützen-Regiment 4
Awarded on: February 28th, 1942
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Major
Unit: Kommandeur Kampfgruppe "Sonnestuhl" / II.SS-Panzerkorps
Awarded on: September 28th, 1944
 
     
RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB
Rank: Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant-colonel)
Unit: Kommandeur Regiment "Knaust" / 490. Infanterie-Division
Awarded on: April 17th, 1945
Details: 843rd Award.
Last formally assigned number in the row of the Eichenlaub.
 
     
WEHRMACHTBERICHT
Awarded on: April 18th, 1945
 
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Picture source:   - G.M. Kannengießer
Information source(s):   - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
- GERRITSEN, B. & REVELL, S., Retake Arnhem Bridge, R.N. Sigmond Publishing, Renkum, 2010.
- PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
- Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Defending Arnhem
- das-ritterkreuz.de
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