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Nahkampfspange in Bronze

The Close Combat Bar was initially made out of tomback an later also from zinc. After the badge was stamped out, it was finished with a bronze wash. Most of these bars are zinc examples. These zinc examples are less of quality and nowadays have lost most of there finish. This award is long shaped with a length of a 9,7cm and a height of 2,6cm. The badge is slightly concave so it fits better to the chest of the recipient. The centre motive is made of a square with at the top a typical spread-winged Wehrmacht eagle and this eagle is clutching a swastika in its claws. Underneath this swastika are a crossed stick grenade and bayonet placed. The other three borders of the square consist of each two oak leaves. From either side of this central motive, emerges a single oak leaf with at the upper and lower corner an acorn. From underneath the tip of this single oak leaf, a spray of three other oak leaves emerges. Between the centre motive and the outer oak leaves are two striped areas, which you could see as sunburst rays. At the reverse is a long horizontally lying needle with a standard hook construction mounted. In the centre is a small black finished backing plate crimped into position. This was done to highlight the centre motive at the obverse. At the reverse is also usually the name or logo from the manufacturer stamped.

The bronze grade (I Stufe) was awarded for 15 days close combat. These 15 days could be shortened to 10 days by the division commandant, when the recipient was to severely wounded to for fill the prescribed 15 days. When the recipient was awarded with the bronze grade, he also automatically was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class (Eiseren Kreuz 2e Klasse), if this award was not already possessed by the recipient.

Bidermann, Gottlob-Herbert* August 28th, 1920
† September 1st, 2010

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Grid List
Gaigals, Roberts (Waffen SS)* March 16th, 1913
† April 15th, 1982

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Gaitars, Rudolfs* May 29th, 1907
† March 22nd, 1945

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Gansmeier, Jakob (Division-Füsilier-Bataillon 212)* May 30th, 1900
† August 8th, 1944
Grave: UNK

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Ganssen, Franz-Josef (Grenadier-Regiment 159)* December 24th, 1914
† May 6th, 1945
Grave: UNK

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Gast, Friedrich* April 21st, 1922
† September 16th, 1944

Gast, Wolfgang (Waffen SS)* February 14th, 1919
† May 8th, 1988

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Gaudecker-Zuch, von, Gerlach* March 24th, 1909
† March 11th, 1970

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Gebhardt, Georg* April 29th, 1901
† July 7th, 1975

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Geelhaar, Arno* December 23rd, 1920
† December 14th, 2009

Gehl, Paul* October 27th, 1918
† December 3rd, 1994

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Gehrke, Kurt ("Großdeutschland")* January 13th, 1903
† October 24th, 1944
Grave: UNK

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Geisendorf, Fritz-Adolf* December 7th, 1909

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Geisendorfer, Helmut† March 5th, 1944

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Gerhardi, Otfried* January 21st, 1919

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Gerhardt, Otto (Infanterie-Regiment 503)* January 28th, 1911
† September 18th, 1944

Gerike, Kurt* November 15th, 1914
† August 20th, 2006

Gernt, Theo* March 8th, 1923
† January 1st, 2004

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Gerstl, Alois* August 22nd, 1921
† May 14th, 1945
Grave: 108

Gerstner, Rudolf* October 24th, 1914
† April 30th, 1945

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Giesler, Franz* September 17th, 1914

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Gillis, Léon (Waffen SS)* December 11th, 1913
† March 24th, 1977

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Girg, Walter (Waffen SS)* August 13th, 1919
† July 25th, 2010

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Gliemann, Paul* September 1st, 1909
† March 3rd, 1945

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Gloge, Reinhold* February 18th, 1916
† March 3rd, 1997

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Gollert-Hansen, Hans-Detlef (Reiter-Regiment 31)* November 3rd, 1913
† March 6th, 1945
Plot: II Row: 6 Grave: 3

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Gorny, Ernst* November 10th, 1920

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Goth, Ernst* July 28th, 1897
† January 19th, 1986

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Gotthardt, Hans* October 1st, 1911

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Graaf, de, Wim* August 10th, 1923
† 1943

Grabert, Siegfried (Brandenburg)* January 11th, 1916
† July 25th, 1942

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Graf, Aloysius Anton "Alois"* September 14th, 1908
† April 8th, 1945

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Grebarsche, Gerhard (SS-Panzergrenadier-Reg. 2)* February 15th, 1913
† January 11th, 1992

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Greimel, Georg† January 27th, 1943

Greiter, Hans* August 26th, 1920
† October 1st, 2002

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Griesmayer, Hans* December 3rd, 1916
† October 18th, 1944

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Groebe, Manfred* October 6th, 1923
† April 24th, 1945

Gross, Franz (Unteroffizier)* October 17th, 1920
† December 23rd, 1943
Grave: UNK

Grote, Ernst-Albert* August 5th, 1914
† October 8th, 1973

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Groß, Helmut* December 27th, 1910
† October 22nd, 2004

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Großlaub, Herbert Richard* May 6th, 1906
† April 1945

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Gruber, Alois* December 5th, 1919
† October 10th, 1943

Gruber, Johann* October 22nd, 1918
† January 16th, 1944

Gruber, Stefan (Obergefreiter)* December 27th, 1911
† October 24th, 1944
Plot: T Row: 6 Grave: 144

Grunau, Ernst* September 28th, 1919
† July 8th, 1989

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Grundner, Andreas* April 29th, 1913
† June 2nd, 1944
Plot: 18 Grave: 258

Grundner, Michael* 1920
† December 24th, 1944

Grunge, Ernst Hermann Wilhelm "Wilhelm"* July 27th, 1916
† November 16th, 1984

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Gräbner, Victor-Eberhard (Waffen SS)* May 24th, 1914
† September 18th, 1944
Grave: UNK

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Grätz, Erich (Waffen SS)* August 14th, 1909
† February 19th, 1974

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Gsödl, Markus* October 5th, 1912

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Guhl, Paul (Waffen SS)* June 1st, 1916
† April 16th, 1997

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Gutmacher, Gerhard, Dr. jur. (Gren.Reg.178)* October 31st, 1917
† March 31st, 2008

Gutmann, Joachim* November 28th, 1902
† December 29th, 1969

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Göbel, Karl (Grenadier-Regiment 420)* January 20th, 1900
† March 2nd, 1945
Grave: 100

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Göhler, Johannes 'Hannes' (Waffen SS)* September 15th, 1918
† February 21st, 2003

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Göller, Sigwart* August 10th, 1911
† April 10th, 2000

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Göpfert, Christian* August 28th, 1910

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Göttert, Willi* March 13th, 1911
† April 25th, 2008

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Gößmann, Franz (Grenadier-Regiment 199 "List")* December 8th, 1909
† April 4th, 1945

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