Knotzer, Josef

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Date of birth:: March 9th, 1910 (Pötsching/Mattersburg, Austria-Hungary)
Date of death:: April 9th, 1997 (Eisenstadt, Austria)
Nationality:: German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

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Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Major (Squadron Leader)
Unit:: Kommandant Flughafen Horst Wiesbaden, Führer der Alarmeinheiten aus dem Raum Wiesbaden bei Remagen
Awarded on:: March 23rd, 1945

Awarded for his leadership of the Luftgau XII’s alarm units subordinated to the 9. Panzer-Division in early 1945. He achieved a local defense success with this unit in the Rheinbreitbach - Bad Honnef area.

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- URBANKE, AXEL & KAISER, JOCHEN, Die Ritterkreuzträger der Kampfflieger, Luftfahrtverlag-Start, 2011.

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