The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (German: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded for a wide range of reasons and across all ranks, from a senior commander for skilled leadership of his troops in battle to a low-ranking soldier for a single act of extreme gallantry.^[1] A total of 7,321 awards were made between its first presentation on 30 September 1939 and its last bestowal on 17 June 1945.^{[Note 1]} This number is based on the analysis and acceptance of the order commission of the Association of Knight's Cross Recipients (AKCR). Presentations were made to members of the three military branches of the Wehrmacht—the Heer (Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe (Air Force)—as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD—Reich Labour Service) and the Volkssturm (German national militia). There were also 43 recipients in the military forces of allies of the Third Reich.^[3]

These recipients are listed in the 1986 edition of Walther-Peer Fellgiebel's book, Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 . Fellgiebel was the former chairman and head of the order commission of the AKCR. In 1996, the second edition of this book was published with an addendum delisting 11 of these original recipients. Author Veit Scherzer has cast doubt on a further 193 of these listings. The majority of the disputed recipients had been nominated for the award in 1945, when the deteriorating situation of Germany during the final days of World War II left a number of nominations incomplete and pending in various stages of the approval process.^[4]

Listed here are the 603 recipients whose last name is in the range "Schu–Sz".^[5] Scherzer has challenged the validity of 14 of these listings.^[6] This is the second of two lists of all 1,060 Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients whose last names start with "S". The remaining recipients whose last name starts with "Sa–Schr" are listed at List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (Sa–Schr).^[7] The recipients are ordered alphabetically by last name. The rank listed is the recipient's rank at the time the Knight's Cross was awarded.

Background

The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grades were based on four separate enactments. The first enactment, Reichsgesetzblatt I S. 1573 of 1 September 1939 instituted the Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz), the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross (Großkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). Article 2 of the enactment mandated that the award of a higher class be preceded by the award of all preceding classes.^[8] As the war progressed, some of the recipients of the Knight's Cross distinguished themselves further and a higher grade, the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub), was instituted. The Oak Leaves, as they were commonly referred to, were based on the enactment Reichsgesetzblatt I S. 849 of 3 June 1940.^[9] In 1941, two higher grades of the Knight's Cross were instituted. The enactment Reichsgesetzblatt I S. 613 of 28 September 1941 introduced the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern) and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub, Schwertern und Brillanten).^[10] At the end of 1944 the final grade, the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit goldenem Eichenlaub, Schwertern und Brillanten), based on the enactment Reichsgesetzblatt 1945 I S. 11 of 29 December 1944, became the final variant of the Knight's Cross authorized.^[11]

Recipients

The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Supreme Command of the Armed Forces) kept separate Knight's Cross lists, one for each of the three military branches, Heer (Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy), Luftwaffe (Air Force) and for the Waffen-SS. Within each of these lists a unique sequential number was assigned to each recipient. The same numbering paradigm was applied to the higher grades of the Knight's Cross, one list per grade.^[12] Of the 603 awards made to servicemen whose last name is in the range "Schu–Sz", 68 were later awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, ten the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords and two the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds; 52 presentations were made posthumously. Heer members, including the Volkssturm, received 384 of the medals; 21 went to the Kriegsmarine, 158 to the Luftwaffe, and 40 to the Waffen-SS and Allgemeine SS.^[5] The sequential numbers greater than 843 for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and 143 for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords are unofficial and were assigned by the Association of Knight's Cross Recipients (AKCR) and are therefore denoted in parentheses.^[13]

Name	Service	Rank	Role and unit[Note 2]	Date of award	Notes	Image
Joachim Schubach	Waffen-SS	15-WSS-Sturmbannführer[14]	Commander of the II./SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Totenkopf"[15][Note 3]	3 April 1943[14]	—	—
Schubert?[Note 4]	Heer	03-HGefreiter[17]	In the fortress Glogau[17]	9 May 1945[17]	—	—
Albrecht Schubert	Heer	20-HGeneral der Infanterie[14]	Commanding general of the XXIII. Armeekorps[14][18]	17 September 1941[14]	—
Carl-Heinz Schubert	Heer	12-HLeutnant[14]	Leader of the 9./Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 2[14][18]	18 April 1943[14]	—	—
Günther Schubert	Heer	16-HOberstleutnant[14]	Commander of the I./Infanterie-Regiment 49[14][18]	5 June 1940[14]	—	—
Gustav Schubert+	Luftwaffe	10-LOberfeldwebel[14]	Pilot in the 8./Sturzkampfgeschwader 1[18][Note 5]	22 May 1943[14]	Awarded 629th Oak Leaves 24 October 1944[14]	—
Paul-Georg Schubert	Heer	10-HOberfeldwebel[14]	Zugführer (platoon leader) in the 3./Pionier-Bataillon 3 (motorized)[14][18]	2 March 1944[14]	—	—
Josef Schuck	Heer	13-HOberleutnant of the Reserves[14]	Leader of the 3./Grenadier-Regiment 351[14][18]	4 June 1944[14]	—	—
Walter Schuck+	Luftwaffe	10-LOberfeldwebel[14]	Pilot in the 7./Jagdgeschwader 5[14][18]	8 April 1944[14]	Awarded 616th Oak Leaves 30 September 1944[14]	—
Helmut Schübel	Luftwaffe	13-LOberleutnant[14]	Staffelkapitän of the 10.(Panzer)/Schlachtgeschwader 2 "Immelmann"[18][Note 6]	18 November 1944[14]	—	—
Hans Schüler	Heer	15-HMajor[14]	Commander of Infanterie-Regiment 633[14][18]	5 August 1940[14]	—	—
Heinrich Schüler+	Heer	14-HHauptmann of the Reserves[19]	Leader of the II./Infanterie-Regiment 525[18][19]	18 September 1942[19]	Awarded 218th Oak Leaves 2 April 1943[19]	—
Herbert Schüler	Heer	10-HOberfeldwebel[19]	Zugführer (platoon leader) in the 9./Grenadier-Regiment 697[18][19]	12 August 1944[19]	—	—
Willi Schülke+	Heer	13-HOberleutnant[19]	Leader of the III./Ski-Jäger-Regiment 1[18][19]	28 October 1944[19]	Awarded 740th Oak Leaves 16 February 1945[19]	—
Karl Schümers	Waffen-SS	15-WSS-Sturmbannführer and Major of the Schupo[19]	Commander of the II./SS-Polizei-Schützen-Regiment 1[18][19]	30 September 1942[19]	—	—
Otto Schünemann+	Heer	17-HOberst[19]	Commander of Infanterie-Regiment 184[18][19]	20 December 1941[19]	Awarded 339th Oak Leaves 28 November 1943[19]	—
Dipl.-Ing. Paul Schürmann	Heer	18-HGeneralmajor[19]	Commander of the 25. Panzergrenadier-Division[18][19]	2 September 1944[19]	—	—
Fritz Schürmeyer	Luftwaffe	13-LOberleutnant[19]	Staffelkapitän of the 3.(F)/Aufklärungs-Gruppe des OB der Luftwaffe[18][Note 7]	1 October 1940[19]	—	—
Josef Schüßler	Heer	09-HFeldwebel[19]	Zugführer (platoon leader) in the 5./Grenadier-Regiment 106[18][19]	14 June 1943[19]	—	—
Christian Schuett	Luftwaffe	10-LOberfeldwebel[19]	Pilot in the 1./Schlachtgeschwader 77[19][20]	18 November 1944[19]	—	—
Fritz Schütt	Heer	14-HHauptmann of the Reserves[19]	Leader of the II./Grenadier-Regiment 502[19][20]	26 March 1943[19]	—	—
Kurt Schütt	Heer	15-HMajor[19]	Commander of Feld-Ersatz-Bataillon 299[19][20]	14 February 1945[19]	—	—
Ludwig Schütte	Heer	15-HMajor[21]	Commander of Divisions-Füsilier-Bataillon 131[20][21]	23 February 1944[21]	—	—
Wilhelm Schütten	Heer	10-HOberfeldwebel[21]	Zugführer (platoon leader) in the 3./Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4[20][21]	4 June 1944[21]	—	—
Erwin Schütz?[Note 8]	Heer	14-HHauptmann[22]	Commander of the II./Grenadier-Regiment 1127[22]	9 May 1945[22]	—	—
Harald von Schütz	Heer	15-HMajor[21]	Commander of Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 7[20][21]	5 April 1945*[21]	Killed in action 1 April 1945[20]	—
Hermann Schütz	Heer	14-HHauptmann of the Reserves[21]	Leader of the I./Grenadier-Regiment 273[20][21]	21 April 1944[21]	—	—
Rudolf Schütze	Luftwaffe	12-LLeutnant[21]	Pilot in the Wettererkundungsstaffel 5[20][21]	14 March 1943[21]	—	—
Viktor Schütze+	Kriegsmarine	15-MKorvettenkapitän[21]	Commander of U-103[20][21]	11 December 1940[21]	Awarded 23rd Oak Leaves 14 July 1941[21]
Otto Schug	Heer	06-HUnteroffizier[21]	Group leader of the 2./Pionier-Bataillon 235[20][21]	3 November 1944*[21]	Died of wounds 19 September 1944[21]	—
Otto Schuhart	Kriegsmarine	14-MKapitänleutnant[21]	Commander of U-29[20][21]	16 May 1940[21]	—	—
Leo Schuhmacher	Luftwaffe	12-LLeutnant[21]	Pilot in the II./Jagdgeschwader 1[21][22]	1 March 1945[21]	—	—
Hinrich Schuldt+	Waffen-SS	16-WSS-Obersturmbannführer[21]	Commander of SS-Totenkopf-Regiment 4[22][Note 9]	5 April 1942[21]	Awarded 220th Oak Leaves 2 April 1943 56th Swords 25 March 1944[21]	—
Wolf-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg	Luftwaffe	15-LMajor[21]	Commander of the I./Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 1[20][21]	20 June 1943[21]	—	—
Emil Schuler	Heer	17-HOberst[23]	Commander of Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 218[20][23]	9 December 1944[23]	—	—
Sebastian Schuller	Heer	06-HUnteroffizier[23]	Geschützführer (gun layer) in the 1./Panzer-Jäger-Abteilung 10 (motorized)[20][Note 10]	31 July 1943[23]	—	—
Ernst Schulte	Luftwaffe	04-LObergefreiter[23]	Geschützführer (gun layer) in the 1./Flak-Regiment 14 (motorized)[20][Note 11]	23 January 1942*[23]	Died of wounds 17 April 1942[20]	—
Franz Schulte	Luftwaffe	09-LFeldwebel[23]	Pilot in the 6./Jagdgeschwader 77[20][23]	24 September 1942[23]	—	—
Helmuth Schulte	Luftwaffe	14-LHauptmann[23]	Gruppenkommandeur of the II./Nachtjagdgeschwader 6[20][23]	17 April 1945[23]	—	—
Hubert Schulte	Heer	14-HHauptmann of the Reserves[23]	Leader of the I./Panzergrenadier-Regiment 1 Führer-Grenadier-Division[20][Note 12]	30 April 1945[23]	—	—
Hermann Schulte-Heuthaus	Heer	16-HOberstleutnant[23]	Commander of Kradschützen-Bataillon 25[20][23]	23 January 1942[23]	—	— Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Albert_Stenwedel Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia.  Navigácia: Veda > Analytika Antropológia Aplikované vedy Bibliometria Dejiny vedy Encyklopédie Filozofia vedy Forenzné vedy Humanitné vedy Knižničná veda Kryogenika Kryptológia Kulturológia Literárna veda Medzidisciplinárne oblasti Metódy kvantitatívnej analýzy Metavedy Metodika Metodológia vedy Náboženstvo a veda Náučná literatúra Podvody vo vede Popularizácia vedy Potravinárstvo Prírodné vedy Pseudoveda Scientometria Spoločenské vedy Teórie Teatrológia Technické vedy Technika Terminológia Umenie Výskum Veda Veda a technika podľa štátu Veda a technika podľa kontinentu Veda a technika podľa roka Veda v kozme Vedci Vedecká literatúra Vedecké databázy Vedecké experimenty Vedecké konferencie Vedecké metódy Vedecké ocenenia Vedecké organizácie Vedecké parky Vedeckí spisovatelia Vzdelávanie Záhady Príbuzné výrazy: Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia. www.astronomia.sk | www.biologia.sk | www.botanika.sk | www.dejiny.sk | www.economy.sk | www.elektrotechnika.sk | www.estetika.sk | www.farmakologia.sk | www.filozofia.sk | Fyzika | www.futurologia.sk | www.genetika.sk | www.chemia.sk | www.lingvistika.sk | www.politologia.sk | www.psychologia.sk | www.sexuologia.sk | www.sociologia.sk | www.veda.sk I www.zoologia.sk