Helmut Beck-Broichsitter

Helmut Beck-Broichsitter (30 August 1914 – 25 September 2000) was a Major i.G in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.

Career
Beck-Broichsitter became a member of the Nazi Party in 1931, of the Sturmabteilung in 1932 and of the police in 1939. In the years till 1944 he served in Feldgendarmerie units and combated partisans behind the lines.

After the war Beck-Broichsitter founded the "Bruderschaft" (Fraternity) in 1949 of former officers of the Wehrmacht. The ideological basis of the brotherhood laid in the National Socialist and conservative revolutionary ideology of the Weimar time. Beck-Broichsitter focus was in a front against Bolshevism. Accused of spying for the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution he resigned from leadership. He later joined the openly Nazi orientated Socialist Reich Party.

Awards and decorations

 * Iron Cross (1939)
 * 2nd Class
 * 1st Class
 * Wound Badge
 * in Black
 * in Silver
 * Infantry Assault Badge
 * Eastern Front Medal
 * Honour Roll Clasp of the Army (7 June 1943)
 * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
 * Knight's Cross on 4 September 1940 as Oberleutnant and Chef of 14.(Panzer-Jäger)/Infanterie-Regiment "Großdeutschland"