A Knight’s Cross Preliminary Award Document to Major von Doering
Preliminary Award Document, Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross 1939, awarded to Major von Doering, II./ S.R. 79, dated 30.11.1940, with original signature of Generalfeldmarschall Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch; document measures 14cm x 20.5cm (DIN 5), and is glued on a cardboard (done a long time ago, and it appears it was framed as such); however, cardboard had been bent at one point, and the document, is now ripped in half (although completely attached/glued to cardboard). Footnote: Bernd von Doering (16 January 1903 – 7 July 1944) was a highly decorated Generalmajor in the Wehrmacht during World War II; he was a Major and commander of the II./Schützen-Regiment 79 in 1940, and in this capacity he was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross.

