Alfred Günther

Alfred Günther

Born	25 April 1917 Magdeburg, Germany
Died	15 June 1944(1944-06-15) (aged 27) Evrecy, France
Buried at	La Cambe German war cemetery
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Waffen SS
Years of service	1938–44
Rank	Untersturmführer
Unit	Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion
Battles/wars	World War II
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Alfred Günther (25 April 1917 – 15 June 1944) was a Waffen-SS man during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.^[1]

Awards

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 3 March 1943 as Zugführer (platoon leader) in the 1./SS-Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 1 "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"^[2]

Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives [The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives] (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Miltaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2.

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients of the SS Division Leibstandarte

Staff	Sepp Dietrich¹ (Oak Leaves, Swords & Diamonds) Theodor Wisch (Oak Leaves & Swords) Rudolf Lehmann² (Oak Leaves)

Units	Hans Becker Josef Diefenthal Albert Frey (Oak Leaves) Erich Göstl Erich Grätz Martin Groß Paul Guhl Alfred Günther Max Hansen (Oak Leaves) Frank Hasse Heinrich Heimann Fritz Henke Konrad Heubeck Georg Karck Hugo Kraas (Oak Leaves) Heinrich Kling Herbert Kuhlmann Gustav Knittel Hans Malkomes Kurt Meyer⁸ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Heinz Nowotnik Joachim Peiper(Oak Leaves & Swords) Gerhard Pleiß Werner Pötschke (Oak Leaves) Hans Reimling Karl Rettlinger Rudolf von Ribbentrop Georg Preuß Rudolf Sandig Kurt Sametreiter Alfred Schneidereit Bernhard Siebken Heinrich Springer Hermann Weiser] Fritz Witt⁶ (Oak Leaves) Michael Wittmann⁴ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Werner Wolff Max Wünsche⁵ (Oak Leaves)

¹Diamonds with the I SS Panzer Corps. ²Oak Leaves with the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. ⁴Swords with 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion. ⁵Oak Leaves with the SS Division Hitlerjugend. ⁶Knight's with the SS Division Das Reich. ⁸Swords with the SS Division Hitlerjugend.

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