Günther Brandt

Dr. med. Günther Rudolf Wilhelm Brandt (1 October 1898 – 4 July 1973) 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. He was also with a Coastal Raider Unit (Küstenjäger) of the Brandenburgers in 1943.
Following World War I, Brandt joined the "Marinebrigade Ehrhardt" and fought with the Freikorps in the Spartacist uprising of the German Revolution in Berlin, and in the Silesian Uprisings against the Poles and Polish Silesians of Upper Silesia. In 1921 he joined the Nazi Party and was involved in the assassination of the Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau in June 1922. He was sentenced to four years imprisonment in 1925. He was released early and studied medicine from 1926 to 1932 in Kiel, Berlin and Munich.
Brandt was also an SS officer with the final rank of Obersturmbannführer. He joined the Nazi Party with membership #2,579,863 and the SS as member #107,079.

Awards

• Iron Cross (1914)
  • 2nd Class (8 December 1917)
• Silesian Eagle 2nd Class (1 October 1919)
• Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939)
  • 2nd Class (9 January 1940)
• Iron Cross (1939)
  • 1st Class (30 August 1940)
• Minesweeper War Badge (29 October 1940)
• German Cross in Gold on 26 November 1942 as Korvettenkapitän of the Reserves in the 12. U-Jagd-Flottille
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 23 December 1943 as Korvettenkapitän of the Reserves and chief of the 21. U-Jagd-Flottille
• Wound Badge in Black (9 June 1944)

• ^ Dörr 1995, p. 76.
• Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 56.
• Scherzer 2007, p. 239.
• Fellgiebel 2000, p. 142.