Hoffend, Jakob

Date of birth:: February 18th, 1901 (Cologne/Rhine Province, Germany)
Date of death:: June 28th, 1946 (Klinkum/Wegberg, Germany)
Nationality:: German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

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Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Volkssturmmann
Unit:: Feuerwerker und Bombenräumer, Köln, Luftgau-Kommando VI Münster, Luftwaffe
Awarded on:: February 7th, 1945

Awarded the Knight’s Cross for defusing a total of 1892 bombs in the city of Cologne. Among these were a couple of particularly dangerous assignments which included defusing one bomb that had landed in an oxygen plant and another in a gas tank that was full of fuel (thereby saving thousands of litres of valuable fuel).

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- FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
- HUß, JÜRGEN & SONDERMANN, HEINZ-WERNER, Ritterkreuzträger im Mannschaftsstand 1941-1945, VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, 2009.
- das-ritterkreuz.de
- lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de

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