KVK certificate - Lieutenant General FRIEDRICH FRANEK (196.ID.)

• KVK certificate - Lieutenant General FRIEDRICH FRANEK (196.ID.)

Convolute of Sergeant JOHANNES WILMS.

Award certificate for the War Merit Cross 2nd class with swords.

Issued on April 20, 1943.

Ink signature from the commander of the 196th Infantry Division, Lieutenant General FRIEDRICH FRANEK (Knight's Cross November 4, 1941).

Friedrich Franek and Alois Windisch were the only people to receive both the Knight's Cross of the Maria Theresa Order and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Later in the war he was in command of the 44th Infantry Division, which suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Monte Cassino between January 1 and May 7, 1944.

The document is not folded.