RK Recipients 1940

[Chris Goss]

I have a list of those aircrew who were awarded the RK up to 6 Oct 40; can anyone tell me the names or supply a list of those (irrespective of whether they were fighter, bomber, recce or Stuka) who were awarded the RK 7 Oct-31 Dec 40.

[hucks216]

Oberleutnant Gerhard Richter - Staffelkapitän 9./LG-1 - 24th November 1940
Oberleutnant Sigmund-Ulrich Frhr von Gravenreuth - 1./KG-30 - 24th October 1940
Hauptmann Joachim Helbig - 4./LG-1 - 24th October 1940
Hauptmann Robert Kowalewski - Stabsstaffel/X-Fliegerkorps - 24th October 1940
Hauptmann Wilhelm Dürbeck - 8./LG-1 - 3rd December 1940
Oberst Günter Schwartzkopff - Kdr StG-77 - 24th October 1940

Names taken from private collection and Issue 2/1941 of Der Adler. There may well be more.

[Chris Goss]

Thanks-a step in the right direction

[hucks216]

Taken from Wiki for the fighter related RKT (haven't check Eichelaub awardees so you also have Helmut Wick winning the Oakleaves on 6th Oct 1940):

Wilhelm Makrocki - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur I./Zerstörergeschwader 26 "Horst Wessel" - 6 October 1940

Werner Streib - Oberleutnant - Staffelkapitän 2./Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 - 6 October 1940

Hajo Herrmann - Oberleutnant - Staffelkapitän 7./Kampfgeschwader 4 "General Wever" - 13 October 1940

Friedrich Vollbracht - Oberstleutnant - Geschwaderkommodore of Zerstörergeschwader 2 - 13 October 1940

Josef Priller - Oberleutnant - Staffelkapitän 6./Jagdgeschwader 51 - 19 October 1940

Dietrich Hrabak - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur II./Jagdgeschwader 54 - 21 October 1940

Heinz Bretnütz - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur II./Jagdgeschwader 53 - 21 October 1940

Hans Philipp - Oberleutnant - Staffelkapitän 4./Jagdgeschwader 54 - 22 October 1940

Otto Bertram - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur III./Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen" - 28 October 1940

Rolf Kaldrack - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur III./Zerstörergeschwader 76 - 2 November 1940

Heinz Nacke - Hauptmann - Staffelkapitän 6./Zerstörergeschwader 76 - 2 November 1940

Heinz Ebeling - Leutnant - Staffelkapitän 9./Jagdgeschwader 26 "Schlageter" - 5 November 1940

Arnold Lignitz - Oberleutnant - Gruppenkommandeur III./Jagdgeschwader 54 - 5 November 1940

Siegfried Schnell - Leutnant - II./Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen" - 9 November 1940

Karl-Heinz Krahl - Hauptmann - I./Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen" - 13 November 1940

Walter Adolph - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur II./Jagdgeschwader 26 "Schlageter" - 13 November 1940

Joachim Schlichting - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur III./Jagdgeschwader 27 - 14 December 1940

Franz von Werra - Oberleutnant - Adjutant II./Jagdgeschwader 3 - 14 December 1940

Günther Freiherr von Maltzahn - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur II./Jagdgeschwader 53 - 30 December 1940

[Chris Goss]

Again, many thanks for this. I am currently away so will comment further on my return. It would appear that there is no single list though

[hucks216]

I'm sure I have seen a list of RKT in chronological order but for the life of me I can't find it anywhere.

[John Vasco]

Oberleutnant Otto Hintze
Staffelkapitän, 3./Erprobungsgruppe 210
24th November 1940

[Chris Goss]

Thanks John. This list would be useful as the list pre-7 Oct 40 is similarly interesting

[Chris Goss]

2 others missing are Oblt Bernhard Jope and Maj Edgar Petersen. So far the list which starts 6 April 1940 (Fuchs of KG 26) total 90 Luftwaffe aircrew RK winners

[chuckschmitz]

I have Jope as 30.12.40 and Petersen as 21.10.40. From the book Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939-1945.

Chuck