Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

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military decoration order of merit

The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was Nazi Germany's highest award for military valor during World War II, bestowed for extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.

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Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	military decoration → order of merit →
abolished	1945 →
associatedRegime	Nazi Germany → surface form: "National Socialist German Reich"
awardedFor	extreme battlefield bravery → successful military leadership →
awardingAuthority	Führer and Reich Chancellor → Oberkommando der Wehrmacht →
conflict	World War II →
countryOfOrigin	Nazi Germany →
eligibility	Kriegsmarine personnel → Luftwaffe personnel → Waffen-SS personnel → Wehrmacht personnel → foreign military personnel allied with Germany →
established	1939-09-01 →
establishedBy	Adolf Hitler →
firstAwarded	1939 →
GermanName	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross → surface form: "Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes"
higherAward	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross → surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves" Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross → surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords" Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross → surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds"
languageOfName	German →
lastAwarded	1945 →
legalBasis	Reichsgesetzblatt I S. 1573 of 1 September 1939 →
lowerAward	Iron Cross 1st Class →
material	iron core → silver frame →
notableRecipient	Adolf Galland → Erwin Rommel → Hans-Ulrich Rudel → Heinz Guderian → Michael Wittmann →
partOf	Iron Cross →
precededBy	Pour le Mérite →
relatedTo	Grand Cross of the Iron Cross → Iron Cross 2nd Class →
ribbonColors	black → red → white →
shape	cross pattée →
status	obsolete →
symbol	oak leaves wreath → swastika →
usedByBranch	Heer → Kriegsmarine → Luftwaffe → Waffen-SS →
wornAround	neck →

Referenced by (121)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross → GermanName → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes"

Adolf Galland → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds"

Adolf Galland → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Adolf Galland → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Adolf Galland → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Albert Kesselring → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds"

Albert Kesselring → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Iron Cross"

Alexander Löhr → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Alfred Jodl → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Dietrich Hrabak → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Eduard Dietl → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Erhard Milch → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Erhard Raus → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Erich Hartmann → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds"

Erich Raeder → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Erich von Manstein → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Erwin Rommel → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds"

Fedor von Bock → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Ferdinand Schörner → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Ferdinand Schörner → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Georg Stumme → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Field Marshal Georg von Küchler → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

subject surface form: "Georg von Küchler"

Field Marshal Georg von Küchler → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

subject surface form: "Georg von Küchler"

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Georg-Hans Reinhardt → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Georg-Hans Reinhardt → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Gerd von Rundstedt → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Gerhard Barkhorn → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Gerhard Barkhorn → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Gerhard Barkhorn → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Gerhard Schöpfel → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Gordon Gollob → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds"

Gordon Gollob → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Gordon Gollob → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Gordon Gollob → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Gotthard Heinrici → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Gusztáv Jány → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Günther Lütjens → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Günther Rall → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Günther Rall → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Günther von Kluge → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Hans Langsdorff → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Hans-Jürgen Stumpff → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Hans-Ulrich Rudel → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds"

Hans-Ulrich Rudel → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Hans-Ulrich Rudel → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Hans-Ulrich Rudel → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Hans-Valentin Hube → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Hans-Valentin Hube → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Hans-Valentin Hube → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds"

Heinz Ewald → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Heinz Guderian → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Hermann Graf → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds"

Hermann Graf → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Hugo Sperrle → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Italo Gariboldi → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Johannes Steinhoff → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Josef Harpe → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Josef Harpe → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Josef Priller → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Josef Priller → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Josef Priller → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Karl Dönitz → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Kurt Student → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Maximilian de Angelis → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Maximilian von Weichs → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Michael Wittmann → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Michael Wittmann → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Walter Krupinski → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Walter Model → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross"

Walter Model → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Walter Model → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Walther von Brauchitsch → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Walther von Reichenau → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Werner Mölders → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds"

Wilhelm Bittrich → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Wilhelm List → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

subject surface form: "Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb"

Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Wilhelm von Leeb → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen → awardReceived → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds"

Friedrich Paulus → awarded → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Johannes Blaskowitz → awarded → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Virtuti Militari → hasGrade → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross"

Iron Cross → hasVariant → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Iron Cross → hasVariant → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) → higherAward → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross → higherAward → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross → higherAward → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross → higherAward → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds"

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds → higherThan → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds → higherThan → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Iron Cross 1st Class → lowerRankThan → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

German Cross in Gold → lowerThan → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Erich Dietl → receivedAward → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Ernst Busch → receivedAward → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Hermann Hoth → receivedAward → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"

Walther Nehring → receivedAward → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Walther Nehring → receivedAward → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Grand Cross of the Iron Cross → relatedDecoration → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

Wilhelm Batz → wasAwarded → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →

this entity surface form: "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords"

Wilhelm Batz → wasAwarded → Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross →