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Ernst Tiburzy

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Allegiance
  
Service/branch
  
Battles and wars
  
Name
  
Ernst Tiburzy

Battles/wars
  

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Rank
  
Battalion Commander comparable to Major

Commands held
  
Volkssturm-Btl. 25/82 in fortress Konigsberg

Died
  
November 14, 2004, Papenburg, Germany

Awards
  

Ernst Tiburzy (26 December 1911 – 14 November 2004) was a German Volkssturm ("home guard") member during World War II who received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his performance fighting alone and the destruction of five T-34s with Panzerfausts during the defense of Königsberg on February 10, 1945. He is one of only four Volkssturm members to have been awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He was mentioned in the addendum of the Wehrmachtbericht on 3 February 1945.

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References

Ernst Tiburzy Wikipedia