Albert Oesterlin

Albert Oesterlin
Born	14 January 1903(1903-01-14) Fahrnau
Died	23 January 1944(1944-01-23) (aged 41) Piraeus
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Kriegsmarine
Rank	Korvettenkapitän of the Reserves (posthumous)
Commands held	Küstenschutzflottille "Attika"
Battles/wars	World War II
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Albert Oesterlin (14 January 1903 – 23 January 1944) was a Korvettenkapitän of the Reserves with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Awards

• Iron Cross (1939)
  • 2nd Class (18 June 1940)
  • 1st Class (22 May 1941)
• Minesweeper War Badge
• German Cross in Gold (18 August 1942)
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 9 June 1944 (posthumously) as Kapitänleutnant of the Reserves and group leader in the Küstenschutz-Flottille Attika

External links

• Albert Oesterlin @ Deutsche Marinesoldaten

References

Citations

Bibliography

• Dörr, Manfred (1996) (in German). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Überwasserstreitkräfte der Kriegsmarine—Band 2:L–Z. Osnabrück: Biblio Verlag. ISBN 3-7648-2497-2. 
• Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000). Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945. Friedburg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
• Range, Clemens (1974). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Kriegsmarine. Stuttgart, Germany: Motorbuch Verlag. ISBN 3-87943-355-0.
• Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 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.