Ernst Georg Buchterkirch

ErnstGeorg Buchterkirch was a German officer in the Wehrmacht and recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves during World War II. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded by Nazi Germany to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.

Buchterkirch was born onSeptember 1914 in Stolp in the Province of Pomerania, a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in the German Empire. Today Storp is Supsk in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the northern part of Poland. Buchterkirch father was a Lieutenant Colonel in the German Army. From 1920 to 1924, he attended the KantGymnasium, a secondary school, in Spandau near Berlin. In 1928, he changed to the Lauenburgische Gelehrtenschule in Ratzeburg, and from 1928 to 1931 the ReformRealgymnasium in Eutin. The family moved again, from 1931 to 1935, Buchterkirch attended and graduated with his Abitur from the GrunewaldRealgymnasium.

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