Search results
First recipient (posthumous) of the Iron Cross
- Musketier Oskar Niemeyer (n.d. – 23 August 1914) was a German soldier. He is recognized as the first recipient (posthumous) of the Iron Cross during the First World War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Niemeyer
People also ask
Did Niemeyer get the Iron Cross?
Did Niemeyer win a cross?
Who was Oskar Niemeyer?
When did Germany reauthorize the Iron Cross?
Why do German men fight for the Iron Cross?
Who was Oskar Niermeyer?
Musketier Oskar Niemeyer (n.d. – 23 August 1914) was a German soldier. He is recognized as the first recipient (posthumous) of the Iron Cross during the First World War. [1]
Sep 6, 2014 · He didn't get the Iron Cross (at least I couldn't find any proof of it), which would make sense as you couldn't get it posthumously. The regimental history, which tells the story, doesn't mention the Iron Cross either.
Mar 17, 2023 · The tourist office of Mons in Belgium still claims that the first man of the German Army to win an Iron Cross (Second Class) in the First World War was Musketier Oskar Niemeyer, who today is buried on the St. Symphorien Military Cemetery, a CWGC burial ground in Saint-Symphorien in Belgium (originally a German cemetery, Ehrenfriedhof 191), which...
Aug 19, 2024 · Oskar Niermeyer, the German private whose heroics allowed the First German Army to get over the canal at Nimy, is buried at St. Symphorien. Oskar was Germany’s first Iron Cross recipient of the Great War.
- Overview
- Biography
Musketier Oskar Niemeyer (n.d. – 23 August 1914) was a German soldier. He is recognized as the first recipient (posthumous) of the Iron Cross during the First World War.
Niemeyer was from Hildesheim, Germany. He joined the 84th Infantry Regiment as a recruit in the autumn of 1913, having previously been a gardener. On 23 August 1914, during the Battle of Mons, the 84th Infantry Regiment came upon resistance and closed swing bridge Mons–Condé canal while seeking to extend their position into the east side of the can...
The Iron Cross (German: Eisernes Kreuz, listen ⓘ, abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945).
Jan 23, 2013 · For Brasília, Costa devised a layout that consisted of two axes intersecting in a cross. The main government structures inhabited the east-west axis, while residential superblocks ran north to south. The retiring Costa was never a brash political adherent in the Niemeyer mold.
