Walter von Unruh

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Service/branch Heer Rank General of Infantry Awards Pour le Merite		Years of service 1896–1945 Name Walter Unruh Battles and wars World War I, World War II

Allegiance German Empire (to 1918) Weimar Republic (to 1933) Nazi Germany Battles/wars World War I World War II Died 1956, Bad Berneck im Fichtelgebirge, Germany

Walter von Unruh (30 December 1877 Gut Klein Tillendorf bei Fraustadt – 16 September 1956 in Bad Berneck im Fichtelgebirge) was a Prussian officer, and later General during World War II. Also, he was a recipient of Pour le Merite.

Awards

Iron Cross (1914), 1st and 2nd class

Pour le Merite (21 April 1918)

Gallipoli Star (Ottoman Empire) ("Iron Crescent")

Honorary Knights of St. John

Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords

Prussian Service Award

Military Merit Order, 3rd class (Bavaria)

Knight's Cross, First Class of the Albert Order with swords

Knight's Cross of the Military Merit Order (Wurttemberg)

General Honour Decoration for Bravery (Hesse)

Hanseatic Cross of Hamburg

Knight's Cross, First Class of the Order of the White Falcon with swords (Weimar)

Knight's Cross of the Order of Leopold with War Decoration (Austria)

Order of the Iron Crown, 3rd class with War Decoration (Austria)

Military Merit Cross, 3rd class with War Decoration (Austria-Hungary)

Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords (1943)

References

Walter von Unruh Wikipedia

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