Erdmannsdorff, von, Werner (General der Inf.)
- Date of birth:
- July 26th, 1891 (Bautzen/Saxony, Germany)
- Date of death:
- June 5th, 1945 (Ljubliana, Yugoslavia)
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
Heinrich Werner Bernhard von Erdmannsdorff was in Yugoslavian imprisonment from 8th May 1945 and was shot by partisans on 5th June 1945.
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Eisernes Kreuz 2.Klasse (1914)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- September 10th, 1914
III. Klasse Fürstlich Reussische Ehrenkreuz
Ritterkreuz II. Klasse des Königlich Sächsischer Albrechtsordens
IV. Klasse des Militärverdienstordens
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- April 15th, 1916
Militärverdienstkreuz III. Klasse
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- September 6th, 1917
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- March 30th, 1918
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- July 21st, 1918
Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- February 23rd, 1935
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- October 2nd, 1936
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- October 2nd, 1936
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- October 2nd, 1936
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- October 2nd, 1936
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- September 22nd, 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- October 2nd, 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberst (Colonel)
- Unit:
- Kommandeur, Infanterie-Regiment 30 (motorisiert), 18. Infanterie-Division, Heer
- Awarded on:
- November 16th, 1941
award 12/5.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberst (Colonel)
- Unit:
- Kommandeur, Infanterie-Regiment 30 (motorisiert), 18. Infanterie-Division, Heer
- Awarded on:
- March 8th, 1942
“Oberst von Erdmannsdorff has already distinguished himself during the defense of Tikhvin and the retreat to behind the Volkhov river as the acting commander of the 18. Infanterie-Division (mot), a post which he took up on the 17.12.1941. In the more recent operations it was primarily to his credit that the city of Staraya Russa was held despite the enemy’s vastly superior numbers. This decisive defensive success provided the higher commands with the opportunity to bring up new forces for the prevention of an enemy breakthrough and thereafter carry out new friendly operations at the appropriate time.”
918th Heer Award.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- July 27th, 1942
Sources
- Photo 1:
- - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
- THOMAS, FRANZ & WEGMANN, GÜNTER, Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht 1939-1945, Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf, 2003.
- Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Digitale Sammlungen: Der Königlich Sächsische Militär-St.-Heinrichs-Orden
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