Kurt Loewer

Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Loewer
Born	27 January 1899 Hamburg
Died	18 October 1985 (aged 86) Münster
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Kriegsmarine
Rank	Korvettenkapitän of the Reserves
Commands held	11. Vorpostenflottille
Battles/wars	World War II
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Loewer^{[Notes 1]} (27 January 1899 – 18 October 1985) was a Korvettenkapitän of the Reserves with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Awards

• Iron Cross (1914)
  • 2nd Class (31 March 1918)^[1]
• Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939)
  • 2nd Class (4 December 1939)^[1]
• Iron Cross (1939)
  • 1st Class (19 August 1940)^[1]
• German Cross in Gold (1 June 1943)
• Minesweeper War Badge^[1]
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 24 June 1944 as Korvettenkapitän and chief of the 11. Vorposten-Flottille^[2]

Notes

1. In German an engineer's degree is called Diplom-Ingenieur (abbreviated Dipl.-Ing.)

References

Citations

1. Dörr 1996, p. 15.
2. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 295.

Bibliography

• Dörr, Manfred (1996). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Überwasserstreitkräfte der Kriegsmarine—Band 2: L–Z [The Knight's Cross Bearers of the Surface Forces of the Navy—Volume 2: L–Z] (in German). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7648-2497-6.
• Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) [1986]. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile [The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.
• Range, Clemens (1974). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Kriegsmarine [The Knight's Cross Bearers of the Navy]. Stuttgart, Germany: Motorbuch Verlag. ISBN 978-3-87943-355-1.
• Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives [The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives] (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Miltaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2.