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Sunday, November 26, 2017

Hans Christern and Peter Sauerbruch

Front seat of the Schützenpanzerwagen Sd.Kfz. 251/3 mittlerer Funkpanzerwagen, from left to right: Oberst Hans Christern (Kommandeur Panzer-Regiment 35 / 4.Panzer-Division) and Oberstleutnant im Generalstab Peter Sauerbruch (Ia [Erster Generalstabsoffizier] 4. Panzer-Division). The picture was taken in Kurland pocket in 1944. 4PzD fought in Latvia and Kurland from the summer of 1944 until January 1945 when it was transferred to West Prussia, where it surrendered to the Red Army in April 1945. 

Source :
http://www.axishistory.com/books/150-germany-heer/heer-divisionen/3956-4-panzer-division
http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Christern,_Hans

Ritterkreuz Award Ceremony of 4. Panzer-Division

Award ceremony of 4. Panzer-Division, 12 August 1944. Divisionskommandeur Clemens Betzel (back to the camera) awarded the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes to Bataillonsführer Kurt Schäfer (on the right facing Betzel). From left to right: Oberst Hans Christern (Kommandeur Panzer-Regiment 35), Generalmajor Clemens Betzel (Kommandeur 4. Panzer-Division), Oberstleutnant Gerlach von Gaudecker-Zuch (Kommandeur Panzergrenadier-Regiment 33), Oberstleutnant im Generalstab Peter Sauerbruch (Ia [Erster Generalstabsoffizier] 4. Panzer-Division), Hauptmann Wilhelm Westermann (Kommandeur Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 4), Major der Reserve Fritz-Rudolf Schultz (Kommandeur II.Abteilung / Panzer-Regiment 35), unidentified officer, Hauptmann Kurt Schäfer (Führer I.Bataillon / Panzergrenadier-Regiment 33), and another unidentified officer.

Source :
http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Datei:Ritterkreuztr%C3%A4ger_der_14._Panzer-Division.jpg
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=29879&start=14025