Georg Pinkepank

Georg Pinkepank
Born	(1907-12-18)18 December 1907 Hanover
Died	Wilhelmshaven
Allegiance	Nazi Germany (to 1945) West Germany
Service/branch	Kriegsmarine German Navy
Rank	Korvettenkapitän (Wehrmacht) Fregattenkapitän (Bundeswehr)
Commands held	2. Räumbootflottille
Battles/wars	World War II
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Georg Gustav Albert Willi Pinkepank (18 December 1907 – 24 November 1979) was a Korvettenkapitän with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (German: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.

Awards

• Wehrmacht Long Service Award 4th Class (24 June 1937)
• Memel Medal (26 October 1939)
• Sudetenland Medal (20 December 1939)
• Iron Cross (1939)
  • 2nd Class (10 October 1939)
  • 1st Class (21 November 1940)
• Minesweeper War Badge (5 November 1940)
• Wound Badge (1939) in Black (13 August 1944)
• German Cross in Gold on 17 December 1943 as Korvettenkapitän in the 2. Räumbootsflottille
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 12 August 1944 as Korvettenkapitän and chief of the 2. Räumbootsflottille
• Naval Front Clasp (May 1945)
• Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2nd Class

References

Bibliography

• Dörr, Manfred (1996). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Überwasserstreitkräfte der Kriegsmarine—Band 2: L–Z (in German). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7648-2497-6. CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
• Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) [1986]. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6. CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
• Patzwall, Klaus D.; Scherzer, Veit (2001). Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 – 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II (in German). Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall. ISBN 978-3-931533-45-8. CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
• Range, Clemens (1974). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Kriegsmarine. 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 (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Miltaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2. CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

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Military offices
Preceded by Korvettenkapitän Jost Brökelmann	Commander of the 2nd Räumboots Flotilla December 1942 – August 1944 (January 1945)	Succeeded by initially disbanded Kapitänleutnant Hans-Joachim Merks
Preceded by Korvettenkapitän Claus Henning von Grumbkow	Commander of the 1st Minesweeper Flotilla October 1944 – 1946	Succeeded by —