General Discussions  
This is the place to discuss general issues related to the U-boat war or the war at sea in WWII. 
Go to: Forum List•Message List•New Topic•Search•Log In•Print View
Re: Gold cross U-129 Drewello???
Posted by: kpp ()
Date: February 03, 2005 05:17PM

Hi Rainer,
DK iG was awarded for exceptional fortitude mutltiply proved and for multiple oustanding merits in troup guidance

"vielfach bewiesene aussergewöhnliche Tapferkeit oder vielfache hervorragende Verdienste in der Truppenführung"

moreover the recipient should already have had EK II and EK I and none of his acts should have been sufficient to merit the knights cross.

they have been in total 5 persons from U-129 who got this DK iG on the same day. But I could not find anything in the KTB mentioning "multiple" special events on the last patrols which could have been the reason for this numerous awards.

So its probably because they all served already for long time together on this boat.

Perhaps they even have already been together on U-37 with Niko Clausen, former commander of U-129, and participated on the trip when Ernst Kals, Chef of the 2nd flotilla and Chef of the Lorient base at the time of the award, has been Kommandantenschüler on U-37.

This is only a presumption but could be an explanation.

Options: Reply•Quote


Subject Written By Posted
Gold cross U-129 Drewello??? anja 02/03/2005 12:46PM
Re: Gold cross U-129 Drewello??? Louie the louse 02/03/2005 02:57PM
Re: Gold cross U-129 Drewello??? Rainer Bruns 02/03/2005 04:29PM
Re: Gold cross U-129 Drewello??? kpp 02/03/2005 05:17PM
Re: Gold cross U-129 Drewello??? Rainer Bruns 02/03/2005 05:58PM
Re: Gold cross U-129 Drewello??? kpp 02/03/2005 06:35PM
Re: Gold cross U-129 Drewello??? Louie the louse 02/03/2005 10:57PM
Re: Gold cross U-129 Drewello??? Eric 02/03/2005 03:18PM
Re: Gold cross U-129 Drewello??? FAlmeida 02/03/2005 03:57PM
Re: Gold cross U-129 Drewello??? Eric 02/03/2005 06:07PM
Re: Gold cross U-129 Drewello??? FAlmeida 02/03/2005 07:21PM
Re: Gold cross U-129 Drewello??? Waltraud Goodwin 02/20/2014 06:56AM


Go to: Forum List•Message List•Search•Log In
Your Name: 
Your Email: 
Subject: 
Spam prevention:
Please, enter the code that you see below in the input field. This is for blocking bots that try to post this form automatically.
 **    **   ******     *******   ********   **    ** 
 **   **   **    **   **     **  **     **  ***   ** 
 **  **    **         **     **  **     **  ****  ** 
 *****     **   ****   ********  ********   ** ** ** 
 **  **    **    **          **  **         **  **** 
 **   **   **    **   **     **  **         **   *** 
 **    **   ******     *******   **         **    **