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Deutsches Kreuz in Gold

The German Cross (Deutschen Kreuz) is build up out of 5 separate parts and although the name suggests otherwise, it has the shape of a large 8-pointed breast star with in the center a large black swastika which is outlined in silver. The name of this award comes from this 21,5 mm big swastika. This swastika is placed upon a red-bordered silver disk and upon this red border is a golden laurel leaf wreath mounted. The golden wreath measures 39 mm across and is made out of single laurel leaves that are bounded together with a silk lint. At the bottom of the wreath is a square box with the year 1941 impressed into it. This date refers to the year of institution and from underneath this wreath emerge the eight star points. These points are chemically blackened and have the appearance of sunrays. Underneath these points is a 63 mm large silver backing plate placed which has the same shape as the award, only it’s slightly bigger so it forms the outer line of the award. At the reverse are 4 or 6 rivets visible and through the number of rivets you can recognize if the award was made in Germany or Austria. The German Crosses with 4 rivets were made in Germany and the pieces with 6 rivets in Austria. Further is there at the reverse a large width pin with a standard hook construction placed. If the award is marked with the LDO-number of the producer, then it is stamped in either the front or backside of the pin. To prevent damaging the award during combat, there was also a cloth version made. This cloth version has a metal wreath and the backing cloth colour is the same as the tunic colour of the corresponding Army branch. Fieldgrey is for the Army (Heer) and Waffen-SS, bleu-grey for the Air Force, (Luftwaffe) Marine bleu for the Navy (Kriegsmarine) and black for the Armored forces.

The German Cross in Gold (Deutsches Kreuz in Gold) was awarded for bravery and outstanding achievements in combat but where the Knight’s Cross wasn’t awarded for. The recipient did however already had to own the Iron Cross 1st Class (Eisernes Kreuz 1 Klasse) or Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1.Klasse with swords. The exact number of times that the German Cross in Gold was bestowed is still unknow at this time.

The OKW barred/stopped by decree the awarding of the Gernan Cross in Gold for "multiple remarkable services in troop leadership" from March 10th, 1945 on.

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

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NameDate of birthDate of deathAwards
Lenz, Bruno  
Lenz, Emil  
Lenz, Erich  
Lenz, Friedrich  
Lenz, Fritz  
Lenz, Günther11-06-1914 
Lenz, Heinz  
Lenz, Hermann (Grenadier-Regiment 164)07-09-189103-08-1943more
Lenz, Martin26-07-1908 
Lenz, Siegfried  
Leonhardt, Christian  
Leonhardt, Christoph  
Leonhardt, Kurt  
Leonhardt, Kurt (Kriegsmarine)  
Leonhardt, Willi (Lw-KG 4)  
Leonhardt, Wolfgang (KM)20-02-189729-02-1980more
Leopold, Fritz03-05-191905-11-1943
Leopold, Günter28-04-189818-03-1943
Lepel, von, Hans  
Lepel, von, Joachim  
Lepetit, Walter  
Lepkowski, Erich17-09-191931-05-1975more
Lepold, Albert  
Lepom, Karl  
Leppel, Fritz  
Leppelt, Martin  
Leppich, Walter  
Leppla, Richard09-06-191404-08-1988
Leps, Siegfried (Schlachtgeschwader)30-11-1916 more
Lepschi, Franz  
Lerch, Josef (Artillerie-Regiment 172)  
Lerchenfeld, Freiherr von, Rudolf (PAA 27)27-08-189703-08-1979more
Lesch, Werner  
Lesch, Wilhelm  
Leschke, Alexander05-02-188907-12-1942more
Leske, Heinrich  
Leske, Martin17-08-191707-01-1981
Lesker, Hermann  
Leski, Horst  
Lesnik, Rudolf  
Lessle, Theodor  
Lessner, Hans  
Lesting, Heinrich  
Lestmann, Karl Kurt Max Wilhelm20-07-191526-02-1943
Lethaus, Waldemar12-07-191528-12-1944
Letsch, Otto  
Lettenmair, Karl  
Lettmann, Anton11-01-192029-06-1983more
Lettner, Fritz  
Lettow, Herbert (Kampfgeschwader 53)  more
Letzel, Alfred  
Leubner, Helmuth  
Leucht, Werner (Schlachtgeschwader 1)20-12-192030-06-1944more
Leuchtmann, Fritz  
Leue, Kurt  
Leuenberg, Alex  
Leukefeld, Karl-Otto01-05-191324-05-2008
Leukel, Alfred  
Leukhart, Max  
Leupert, Otto06-02-191526-08-1944
Leupold, Max  
Leuser, Anton  
Leute, Richard  
Leuteritz, Otto  
Leuthardt, Helmut  
Leutheußer, Hans-Günther  
Leutl, Hans  
Leutloff, Günther14-03-191731-05-1945
Leutloff, Herbert  
Leutsch, von, Friedrich-Wilhelm (Art.Rgt. 162)24-12-191305-03-1944
Leutsch, von, Kurt (KG 1 „Hindenburg")28-04-191526-09-1941more
Leutz, Rudolf  
Leuze, Walter  
Lévay, Gyözö  
Levedag, Walter  
Lewandowski, Walter (Kampfschwimmer)19-04-1925 
Lewe, Heinrich  
Lewerenz, Ewald  
Lewicki, Peter16-02-1916 
Lewinski, von, Werner Alfred Wilhelm23-09-1896 
Lewinsky, Thorwald  
Lewitzki, Johann (KG 3)  
Lewrenz, Richard  
Lex, Alfred (Waffen SS)10-06-191311-03-1944more
Lex, Fritz  
Lex, Hans21-01-191611-08-1994more
Lexis, Hellmut  
Ley, Christian  
Ley, Heinz  
Leyck, Siegfried04-08-191507-07-1943
Leye, Robert (Schnelle Abteilung 602)  
Leyendecker, Wilhelm  more
Leyer, Ernst  
Leyh, Georg  
Leyh, Willy  
Leyherr, Maximilian18-08-1908 
Leyk, Karl  
Leykauf, Erwin22-01-191807-09-2007
Leymann, Wilhelm28-06-1918 more
Leypold, Karl-Heinz27-06-191429-04-1945
Leyser, Hans-Georg16-06-189618-04-1980more
Leyser, von, Ernst18-11-188923-09-1962
Leysieffer, Hans-Ulrich  
Libera, Josef  
Licht, August  
Licht, Heinz07-08-1921 
Licht, Karlheinz  
Licht, Rudolf-Eduard11-06-189014-09-1978more
Lichte, Karl15-07-191319-08-1999
Lichte, Karl-Heinz (Waffen SS)23-08-192024-01-2005more
Lichtenberg, Philipp ('U-516')09-09-190814-12-1993more
Lichtenberger, Hartmut (Artillerie-Regiment 34)00-00-192227-03-1944
Lichter, Jakob  
Lichterfeld, Johannes  
Lieb, Georg  
Lieb, Ludwig (Waffen SS)03-04-1919 more
Liebach, Egon  
Liebau, Martin  
Liebberenz, Fritz  
Liebe, Moritz  
Liebe, von, Ernst  
Liebenau, Arno  
Liebener, Hans Joachim  
Liebenstein, Freiherr von, Gustav24-04-189117-01-1967more
Liebenstein, Freiherr von, Kurt28-02-189903-08-1975more
Liebermann, Paul11-06-1911 more
Liebert, Helmut  
Lieberwirth, Herbert  
Liebethat, Walter  
Liebetrau, Hans  
Liebherr, Hans05-04-191913-05-1968
Liebholz, Wilhelm  
Liebig, Christian  
Liebing, Erich10-07-1905 
Liebing, Helmut07-05-1920 
Liebing, Herbert  
Liebisch, Hans-Günther13-01-191609-06-1989
Liebke, Georg (Kampfgeschwader 53)  
Liebmann, August  
Liebmann, Emil20-08-191105-01-1973more
Liebner, Walter20-09-1919 
Liebscher, Gotthart  
Liebscher, Hans-Achim  
Liebscher, Johannes  
Lieck, Robert (Infanterie-Regiment 371)  
Liecke, Karl (Waffen SS)08-05-191008-09-1976more
Liedel, Arno  
Lieder, Gustav  
Liedloff, Paul  
Liedtke, Franz  
Liedtke, Friedrich02-08-1909 
Liedtke, Heinz  
Liedtke, Heinz (WH-Artillerie-Regiment)  
Liedtke, Otto  
Lieferenz, Kurt  
Liehr, Hans-Joachim  
Lienau, Detlef19-06-191422-06-1943
Lienau, Günther  
Lienert, Philipp  
Lier, Friedrich22-05-191017-08-1974more
Liermann, Arnold  
Liers und Wilkau, von, Karl19-06-192111-06-1943
Lieschke, Wilhelm  
Lieseberg, Erwin  
Liesendahl, Frank Franz (JG 2 "Richthofen")23-02-191517-07-1942more
Lieser, Karl-Heinrich  
Lieser, Wilhelm  
Liesicke, Georg  
Lieske, Kurt  
Lieske, Oskar  
Liethen, Paul  
Liethmann, Günter10-07-191811-08-1999
Lietz, Arnhold  
Lietz, Kurt  
Lietz, Siegfried  
Lietzmann, Joachim  
Ließmann, Hans  
Lilienfein, Heinz  
Lilienfeld, von, Nikolaus18-11-1922 
Lilienhoff-Zwowitzki, von, Helmut10-09-190530-06-1944more
Lill, Hans Aloisius (s.Pz.Abt. 509)11-04-192318-07-1944
Liman, Helmut13-04-190527-09-1944
Limbach, Johann ('U-181')09-12-191206-03-1993more
Limberg, Gerhard (Schlacht-Geschwader 4)07-07-192023-03-2006more
Limbersky, Franz07-03-1915 
Limbrecht, Max (Transport-Geschwader)  
Limburg-Hetlingen, von, Enno-Erich05-11-189326-08-1977
Liminski, Max  
Linbrunn, Franz  
Lincke, Karl-Heinz  
Lind, Werner  
Lindau, Erwin  more
Linde, Günther  
Linde, Rudolf Franz Julius08-04-191501-02-1945more
Lindemann, Dieter31-08-1918 more
Lindemann, Friedrich  
Lindemann, Fritz11-04-189422-09-1944more
Lindemann, Gerhard Heinrich (Generalmajor)02-08-189628-04-1994more
Lindemann, Helmut  
Lindemann, Kurt  
Lindemann, Max (Grenadier-Regiment 48)12-02-190925-04-1999
Lindemann, Werner  
Lindemuth, Karl-Heinz  
Linden, Heinz26-01-1908 
Linden, von der, Paul  
Lindenau, Hans29-08-191303-06-1983
Lindenau, Willy  
Lindenberg, Alfred  
Lindenberg, Friedrich "Fritz"12-07-191431-05-1995more
Lindenberg, Harald  
Lindenblatt, Franz  
Lindenhahn, Kurt 00-00-2008
Lindenmann, Wilhelm  
Linder, Anton  
Linder, Hermann05-11-191408-07-1943
Linderkamp, Heinrich26-09-191302-03-1945more
Lindhorst, Otto  
Lindhorst, Werner (Divisions-Füsilier-Bataillon)  
Lindhorst, Werner (Grenadier-Regiment 89)19-04-191714-06-1948
Lindig, Franz05-10-1893 more
Lindig, Hans  
Lindig, Max (Generalleutnant)11-07-188726-04-1961more
Lindinger, Eduard17-01-191501-09-2004
Lindl, Max  
Lindl, Rudolf  
Lindmayer, Otto  
Lindner, Albert  
Lindner, Anton12-04-191717-02-1994more
Lindner, Erich  
Lindner, Franz  
Lindner, Fritz  
Lindner, Georg  
Lindner, Gerhard (Generalmajor)26-12-189604-06-1982more
Lindner, Hellmuth  
Lindner, Helmut  
Lindner, Herbert (Heeres-Artillerie-Brigade 732)  
Lindner, Herbert (Schlachtgeschwader)  
Lindner, Julius  
Lindner, Karl00-00-1916 
Lindner, Martin29-04-191402-12-1944
Lindner, Otto04-10-190701-07-1944
Lindner, Siegfried  
Lindow, Hans-Gottfried  
Lindstadt, Hans (Artillerie-Regiment 114)  
Linek, Franz  
Linge, Friedrich28-03-191708-02-1999more
Linge, Georg11-01-191420-10-1942
Lingenfelder, Josef  
Lingk, Hasso  
Lingner, Hans (SS-Infanterie-Regiment 1)  
Lingner, Heinrich  
Linhart, Friedrich30-11-1913 
Link, Anton  
Link, Artur  
Link, Friedrich09-10-1916 
Link, Harald20-12-1912 
Link, Heinrich  
Link, Otto (Aufklärungsgruppe 124)13-11-1913 more
Linka, Wilhelm  
Linke, Franz14-02-191409-10-1981
Linke, Gottfried07-04-191824-06-2014
Linke, Heinz  
Linke, Heinz  
Linke, Hubert  
Linke, Lothar23-10-190914-05-1943
Linke, Max  
Linke, Paul  
Linke, Richard03-04-190931-12-1995
Linke, Walter (Grenadier-Regiment 272)  
Linke, Walter (Schlachtgeschwader 2)27-03-192029-06-1985more
Linkenbach, Paul10-01-1914 more
Linker, Alfred15-09-191925-06-1948
Linkohr, Hans  
Linn, Hermann  
Linnemann, Otto11-12-191814-10-2011
Linsen, Johann  
Linsenmaier, Otto  
Linsenmaier, Walter  
Linsenmeier, Fritz  
Linsenmeier, Gustav  
Linz, Rudi14-02-191717-02-1945
Linz, Wolfgang (Nahaufklärungsgruppe 12)16-12-191230-07-1944more
Lion, Karl-Hermann04-11-191002-05-1994more
Lipfert, Heinrich  
Lipfert, Helmut06-08-191610-08-1990more
Liphart, Johannes "Hans"28-12-1901 more
Lipka, Franz  
Lipka, Heinz  
Lipp, Alfred  
Lipp, Franz  
Lipp, Karl04-11-191819-11-1942
Lipp, Karl (WH-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment)  
Lipp, Max  
Lipp, Robert (Flak-Regiment 32)11-10-191618-04-1945
Lippach, Horst  
Lippe, Adolf  
Lippe, Wolfgang (Infanterie-Regiment 234)  
Lippe-Weißenfeld, Prinz zur, Egmont14-07-191812-03-1944more
Lippert, Ernst  
Lippert, Lucien25-08-191313-02-1944
Lippert, Otto  
Lippmann, August24-10-1918 
Lippmann, Erwin  
Lippmann, Heino  
Lippok, Peter  
Lippold, Werner  
Lippolt, Max  
Lischak, Alfred  
Lischinski, Kurt  
Lischke, Kurt  
Lisdat, Heinz  
Lisec, Rudolf  
Lisowski, Johann  
Lissel, Hans-Kurt  
Lisske, Walter  
Lissowski, Heinrich  
List, Franz07-04-191224-07-1970
List, Karl  
Lith, Willi30-09-192319-04-1947more
Litjens, Stephan "Steff" (Jagdgeschwader 53)13-10-191325-02-2002more
Litschka, Rupert  
Litteck, Wilhelm06-12-1917 
Litter, Hermann  
Litterscheid, Friedrich-Franz12-06-191122-12-1988
Littmann, Eberhard  
Littmann, Ernst  
Littmann, Harald  
Litwin, Rolf  
Litzlbeck, Franz  
Lobbe, Hans  
Lobe, Kârlis26-03-189509-07-1985more
Lobeck, Dr., Fritz  
Lober, Oskar  
Lobert, Josef  
Loch, Emil Herbert05-08-188628-10-1976more
Loch, Hans  
Loch, Walter  
Lochbihler, Hermann  more
Locher, Ottmar  
Lochmann, Willi  
Lochmüller, Heinz (Kampfgeschwader 51 'Edelweiss')23-07-191515-06-1944more
Lochner, Johann  
Locker, Alois  
Lodders, Wilhelm  
Loderhose, August-Georg, Dr.31-07-190831-08-1982more
Loebner, Hans  
Loeck, Karl  
Loederer, von, Karl  
Loefen, von, Max Hermann (Generalmajor)05-03-189204-01-1942more
Loeffelholz von Colberg, Freiherr, Erich  
Loeffler, Rudolf30-09-191721-07-1943
Loehr, Albert  
Loerke, Konrad26-01-1909 
Loerps, Wilhelm  
Loertzer, Martin  
Loew, Friedrich  
Loewer, Kurt27-01-189718-10-1985
Loges, Ewald  
Lohauß, Gerhard (Panzer-Regiment 7)  
Lohbeck, Hermann  
Lohbrandt, Horst  
Lohde, Hellmut  more
Lohe, Horst28-09-1914 more
Lohe, von der, Johann  
Lohff, Bernhard  
Lohmann, Bernhard01-07-1915 more
Lohmann, Erich  
Lohmann, Günther (Generalleutnant)06-10-189515-11-1978more
Lohmann, Hans-Heinrich 'Hanns' (Waffen SS)24-04-191125-05-1995more
Lohmann, Hans-Herbert17-04-1919 
Lohmann, Hans-Joachim  
Lohmann, Hermann  
Lohmann, Reinhold  
Lohmanns, Peter  
Lohmar, Walter  
Lohmeyer, Hans-Georg 'Schorsch' (SG 77)25-03-191922-10-1944more
Lohrberg, Erich  
Lohrberg, Karl  
Lohre, Eduard  
Lohrengel, Heinrich  
Lohrer, Friedrich  
Lohrmann, Abraham  
Lohrmann, Heiner  
Lohrmann, Heinrich  
Lohse, Ernst  
Lohse, Fritz  
Lohse, Günther  
Lohwasser, Walter31-05-191317-08-1964
Lohß, Martin18-04-191911-05-2007
Loi, Hugo (Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 141)18-02-1919 more
Loibl, Josef  
Lojewski, Wilhelm  
Lombard, Gustav (Waffen SS)10-04-189418-09-1992more
Lomberg, Werner  
Lommler, Erich  
Looks, Hartwig (U-264)27-06-191708-10-2005
Loos, Franz  
Loos, Gerhard (Jagdgeschwader 54)21-08-191606-03-1944more
Loos, Herbert  
Loos, Karl  
Loos, Kurt02-01-192024-03-1945
Loos, Walter (Jagdgeschwader 300)11-04-192327-10-2004more
Loos, Wilhelm (Gren.Reg.76)27-12-191128-12-1988more
Loose, Ferdinand  
Loose, Hans  
Loose, Heinz13-07-1914 
Loose, Wolfgang (Waffen SS)16-02-191627-08-2014more
Loosen, Adolf  
Lorberg, Johannes  
Lorch, Alfred  
Lorch, Anton06-06-191022-10-1984
Lorch, Herbert13-04-191219-08-1942
Lorch, Otto  
Lorek, Franz14-12-1921 
Lorentz, Karl-Heinz  
Lorentz, Martin  
Lorenz, Adolf  
Lorenz, Albert  
Lorenz, Alfred17-05-192020-06-1989more
Lorenz, Alfred  
Lorenz, Emil  
Lorenz, Ernst  
Lorenz, Franz07-09-191220-04-1945more
Lorenz, Friedrich09-06-191717-07-1943
Lorenz, Gerhard (Grenadier-Regiment 407)  
Lorenz, Günther18-06-1920 
Lorenz, Heinz (Waffen SS)12-01-1913 
Lorenz, Hellmut  
Lorenz, Helmut  
Lorenz, Herbert (WH-Gren.Rgt. 185)  
Lorenz, Hilmar  
Lorenz, Horst26-09-192025-07-1943
Lorenz, Josef22-02-191530-06-1944
Lorenz, Josef  
Lorenz, Karl24-01-190403-10-1964more
Lorenz, Karl-Heinz03-07-191707-07-1943more
Lorenz, Max  
Lorenz, Ottfried  
Lorenz, Paul Herbert08-05-191626-03-1994
Lorenz, Siegfried  
Lorenz, Wilhelm25-04-189402-01-1943more
Lorenz, Wilhelm  
Lorenz, Wolfgang (Grenadier-Regiment 385)  
Lorenzen, Bernhard01-03-190717-07-1983more
Lorenzen, Ernst  
Lorenzen, Heinz18-11-1918 
Lorenzen, Karl-Heinz  
Lorenzmeier, Heinz (Kampfgeschwader 27)  more
Lorra, Viktor  
Lorra, Willi  
Lorscheid, Heinrich  
Lorscheider, Gotthard Dr.jur. (Inf.Reg.502)01-04-1911 
Los, Rudolf  
Losansky, Ernst  
Loschke, Karl-Heinz  
Losigkeit, Erich  
Losigkeit, Fritz17-11-191314-01-1994
Loskot, Karl 16-12-1943
Lossack, Karl  
Lossow, von, Jobst  
Loth, Karl  
Lotter, Fritz  
Lotter, Hans17-11-191721-11-2008
Lottmann, Georg  
Lottner, Kurt30-10-189915-03-1957more
Lotz, Adolf  
Lotz, Christoph  
Lotz, Gerhard (Aufklärungsgruppe 11)  
Lotz, Kurt  
Lotz, Walter30-04-1918 
Lotze, Gerhard (Waffen SS)21-05-192213-10-1944more
Loudon, Freiherr von, Eric  
Louen, Franz  
Lubich von Milovan, Berndt (Waffen SS)07-12-191317-04-2006more
Lubos, Dr., Ernst  
Lubowitzki, Josef (Artillerie-Regiment 11)  
Lubrich, Hans-Georg  
Lucas, Elinar  
Lucas, Günther  
Lucas, Theodor  
Lucas, Werner G.E.27-02-191724-10-1943
Lucassen, Hans  
Lucht, Ernst27-02-189602-11-1975more
Lucht, Otto  
Lucht, Rudolf  
Lucht, Walther26-02-188218-03-1949more
Luchtenberg, Günter15-08-191213-08-1972more
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Luck, Dr., Hans  
Luckau, Ernst  
Lucke von Katte, von, Helmuth  
Lucke, Alfred  
Lucke, Gerhard (Kampfgeschwader 51)  
Lucke, Kurt  
Luckmann, Walter  
Luckner, Graf von, Wolf (Generalmajor)09-01-189613-11-1971more
Luckow, Erwin  
Luckow, Karl-Friedrich  
Luckow, Karl-Heinz  
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