Knights Cross Recipients--an up-date.

Hi Carl.

Yes, i know it. that´s why i tried to contact him fastly after getting his address. but unfortunately i wasn´t quick enough !

by the way: i should have read this topic more carefully. it already was mentioned, that heinz heuer passed away. try to keep my eyes open next time !!

 

...carl.

can you please tell me something about that book "chained dogs". i never heard of it before.

thanks in advance

 

Hi "R" no problem in mentioning about Heinz Heuer passing away--better mentioning his name than not remembering his name.... I wrote to him too--but was a few months before I had heard of his passing away.

There are two volumes of "Chained Dogs" I finally have both volumes of it. It gives a kind of history on the German Feldgendarmerie in ww2 and shows alot of pictures of them doing their jobs and shows them wearing uniforms and insignia. In volume #2--there is a foto that I absolutely love seeing. It shows I think 3-4 Fallschirmjager Feldgendarmerie who had stopped a Kubelwagon with 2-3 Luftwaffe men in it.

One Fallschirm Feldgendarmerie is looking at the Kubelwagon drivers Wehrpass or Soldbuch and he has the same look on his face that all Police Officers around the world have when the person they are questioning is trying to get out of whatever trouble he got into. The driver is a young Luftwaffe soldier--and he looks classical as the guy who is trying to get out of trouble that he is in by telling the Feldgendarm some story--the Feldgendarm in return really looks as if he has "Heard it all" and does not believe the story he is being told.

Its quite an amusing foto.

These books also tell you alot about mant if not all Feldgendarmerie units in wk2. It gives name sof commanders and places units served at. Its really an interesting two volume book. It is also printed in English--but I dont know if there is a German version of it in print. Also--the book came out a few years ago so they will most likely be hard to find.

 

Just a quick update:

General Kurt Andersen, 104 yrs old and the oldest living Ritterkreuztrager passed away on 9/1/2003.

Carl my computer has crashed and has been sent away for repair but i am using a friends computer and checking my mails every few days.Have spoken to Capt Annand VC tonight as i'm visiting him next week,he sends his thanks for the Christmas Card and his best wishes to you.

Paul

 

Thank you for the update Paul, and thank you for letting me know what the Captain said. Please give him my best wishes will you? Also--as I am actually and really going to relocate this time--I will be paying all debts starting as soon as I get everything unpacked in February. Your pics will be sent as well as a few other things.

Thank you again my friend and sorry your computer crashed.

 

This is just in from my friend--Paul.

The oldest living RKT Kurt Anderson recently passed away. He was 104.

 

Updated list of Ritterkreuztragers who have recently passed away,

Oberleutnant Dr Dietrich Koch 22/11/2002

Fahnenjunker-Oberfeldwebel Ewald Reineke 24/11/2002

Oberfeldwebel Heinrich Ernst 28/11/2002

Hauptmann Dr Erhard Steinke 1/12/2002

Hauptmann Adolf Thomae 2/12/2002

Hauptmann Gunther Marreck 23/12/2002

Oberleutnant Fritz Burkhardt 26/12/2002

Hauptmann August Koch 6/1/2003

Major Karl-Heinz Holzapfel 15/1/2003

Oberleutnant Emil Rossmann 20/1/2003

Feldwebel Karl Kochendorfer 5/2/2003

Feldwebel Franz Pohl 6/2/2003

Major Eugen Sonntag 8/2/2003

Feldwebel Friedrich Memmert 12/2/2003

SS Sturmbannfuhrer Johannes Gohler 21/2/2003

Hauptfeldwebel Gunter Stein 21/2/2003

Unteroffizier Edmund Hug 24/2/2003

Feldwebel Rudolf Hegewald 6/3/2003

Major Erich Eichler 8/3/2003

RIP

Paul

 

Thank you Paul......May they all rest in peace.

 

Another of the Grey Wolves is gone....Rolf Thomsen, command of U 1202 and RKT, died on 27 March 2003.

 

Thanks Ivan......another sad loss indeed. I had the oppurtunity to purchase a signed copy of Rolf's book some two years ago, but I passed it up for reasons I cannot remember.....damn

write these guys gents, NOW !

E

 

Thank you Ivan--he is a very sad loss. I used to correspond with him but had not for about 2 or so years now. Thank you for letting us know.

May he Rest in Peace.

 

Bump--for future info from Stevin.

 

Ironically Rolf Thomsen had only recently become a member of the OdR and was meeting with his fellow RKT's,


RIP,

Paul

 

Thats a shame--he not having much chance to see some of his fellow RKT comrades.

Im praying I still have all of his letters as he did give me some great info that should be put here.

Rolf--Rest in Peace.

 

hi there, i´m sorry to tell you that wolfram stronk has passed away on 10. april 2003. i just recently wrote to him and got his pic but without signature...wolfram ist the only veteran in your list, that was in fallschirmpanzerkorps hermann göring. i´m so sad about the fact that these men are all going from this earth. and their number is growing...
carl, i would appreciate if you give the address of erich topp to me. at the moment i´m reading his book "fackeln über dem atlantik". if you get some addresses of other men from fallschirmjägerkorps hermann göring, please let me know. that´s all for now, sorry for my poor english, guys !

 

Glad to see you here my friend--and thanks for that update. Im afraid there are a few more to add to the list as soon as I can.

Ill send you an email on Erich Topp.

Also--your English ist stille better than mein Deutsch.

Ill be writing to you on monday.

 

Carl, is Erich Topp still alive? I remember seeing him in some U-boat documentaries in which he indeed seemed very old but still strong.

 

Thankfully he is alive and doing well inspite of some thieves who stole his award documents and honor dagger.

 

Received an email from a friend who tells me another Grey Wolf has gone eternal patrol....

Heinz Franke, RKT, Kdt. U 252, U 148, U 3509 and U 2502 died on 5 April 2003. He will be missed.

 

Hi Ivan--thank you for this news as well.