Friedrich Blumke ( German: Friedrich Blümke ; February 18, 1898 - September 4, 1944 ) - German military commander, major general of the Wehrmacht , was appointed August 10, 1944 as acting commander of the 257th Infantry Division . According to unverified information, he probably managed to take the post of division commander. Knight of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross , the highest order of the Third Reich . He was seriously wounded by a shrapnel in his chest on August 24, 1944 near the village of Cureni-Emental, Moldova during an attack on a low-flying Soviet aircraft. He was captured by Soviet troops in September 1944 . He died on September 4, 1944 in a Soviet prisoner of war camp near Odessa .
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| Date of Birth | February 18, 1898 | |||||||||
| Place of Birth | Ranverder , near Stargard, Pomerania, German Empire | |||||||||
| Date of death | September 4, 1944 (aged 46) | |||||||||
| A place of death | Odessa , USSR | |||||||||
| Affiliation |  German Empire (until 1918) Germany (before 1933) Germany | |||||||||
| Type of army | ground troops | |||||||||
| Years of service | 1916 - 1944 | |||||||||
| Rank | major general | |||||||||
| Commanded | 257th Infantry Division | |||||||||
| Battles / wars | World War I
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| Awards and prizes | German Empire
Third Reich
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Rewards
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st grade ( Kingdom of Prussia )
- Breastplate “For Injury” (1918) in black
- Honorary Cross of the First World War 1914/1918 with swords (1934)
- Medal “In memory of October 1, 1938”
- Buckle to the Iron Cross 2nd class (September 17, 1939)
- Buckle to the Iron Cross 1st class (October 20, 1939)
- Medal "For the Winter Campaign in the East 1941/42"
- Crimean shield
- Honorary belt buckle for the ground forces (October 7, 1943)
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (November 6, 1943)
Literature
- Walther-Peer Fellgiebel . Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945. - Friedburg: Podzun-Pallas, 1986.- 472 p. - ISBN 3-790-90284-5 .
- Veit Scherzer . 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. - 2. - Jena: Scherzers Miltaer-Verlag, 2007 .-- 864 p. - ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 .