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Fritz Fullriede

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Years of service
  
1914–45

Service/branch
  
German Army

Name
  
Fritz Fullriede

Rank
  
Generalmajor


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Allegiance
  
German Empire (to 1918)  Weimar Republic (to 1933)  Nazi Germany

Battles/wars
  
World War I World War II

Died
  
November 3, 1969, Bad Oldesloe, Germany

Awards
  
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Battles and wars
  
World War I, World War II

Fritz Fullriede (4 January 1895 – 3 November 1969) was a German officer and war criminal during World War II. Fullriede fought in the German invasion of Poland, on the Eastern Front, in the Afrika Korps and the Italian Campaign. The last commander of Festung Kolberg, Fullriede received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves in 1945. After the war, Fullriede was tried and convicted for war crimes. He was sentenced for 12 years, and was released having served four.

Awards

  • Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (25 August 1917)
  • Wound Badge (1918) in Black (20 July 1918)
  • Hanseatic Cross of Bremen (25 July 1918)2nd Class (7 July 1941)
  • Iron Cross (1939) 1st Class (23 October 1941)
  • Wound Badge (1939) in Gold (20 August 1941)
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
  • Knight's Cross on 11 April 1943 as Oberstleutnant and commander of Kampfgruppe Fullriede in the Panzer AOK 5
  • 803rd Oak Leaves on 23 March 1945 as Oberst and commander of the fortress Kolberg

    • References

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