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Waldemar Holst
Born (1907-09-14)14 September 1907
Died 17 May 1975(1975-05-17) (aged 67)
Place of birth Hanover
Place of death Hamburg
Allegiance Weimar Republic Weimar Republic (to 1933)
Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (to 1945)
West Germany West Germany
Service/branch Flag of Weimar Republic (jack) Reichsmarine
War Ensign of Germany 1938-1945 Kriegsmarine
Naval Ensign of Germany German Navy
Years of service 1927 – 1945, 1956 – 1965
Rank Korvettenkapitän (Wehrmacht)
Kapitän zur See (Bundeswehr)
Commands held 4. Räumbootflottille
Battles/wars World War II
Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Waldemar Holst (14 September 1907 – 17 May 1975) was a Korvettenkapitän with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. In the Bundesmarine he attained the rank of Kapitän zur See.

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  • Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000). Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 (in German). Friedburg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
  • Range, Clemens (1974). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Kriegsmarine (in German). Stuttgart, Germany: Motorbuch Verlag. ISBN 3-87943-355-0.
  • Scherzer, Veit (2007). Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Miltaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2.

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