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Lange, Werner (Kommandierender Admiral Ägäis)

Date of birth:
July 18th, 1893 (Altenburg/Saxony, Germany)
Date of death:
November 19th, 1965 (Eutin/Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Nationality:
German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

Werner Lange was a Prisoner of War between May 1945 and November 30th, 1946.

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Vizeadmiral (Rear-admiral)
Unit:
Kommandierender Admiral Ägäis
Awarded on:
January 8th, 1944
Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Vizeadmiral (Rear-admiral)
Unit:
Kommandierender Admiral Ägäis
Awarded on:
October 28th, 1944
Awarded for his command of German naval forces in the Aegean sea. Through his planning and leadership of the many operations here he played a major part in the German naval successes in this area. He also secured the naval supply of the German held Greek islands for a year and thereafter conducted the relatively bloodless execution of his assigned evacuation objectives.
Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes
Period:
First World War (1914-1918)
Awarded on:
May 15th, 1916
Eisernes Kreuz 2.Klasse (1914)
Period:
First World War (1914-1918)
Awarded on:
February 1st, 1918
Eisernes Kreuz 1.Klasse (1914)
Period:
First World War (1914-1918)
Awarded on:
April 20th, 1918
Hamburgisches Hanseatenkreuz
Period:
First World War (1914-1918)
Awarded on:
March 2nd, 1935
Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
October 16th, 1939
1939 Spange zum Eisernes Kreuz 2er Klasse 1914
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
May 27th, 1940
1939 Spange zum Eisernes Kreuz 1er Klasse 1914

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