Ernst Wellmann

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|name=Ernst Wellmann

|birth_date={{Birth date|1904|1|14|df=y}}

|death_date={{death date and age|1970|7|17|1904|1|14|df=y}}

|birth_place= Szamotuły Samter

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|allegiance={{flag|Nazi Germany}}
{{flag|West Germany}}

|branch={{army|GER}}

|serviceyears=1935–45
1956–60

|rank=Oberst (Wehrmacht)
Brigadegeneral (Bundeswehr)

|commands=Panzer Division Holstein

|unit=

|battles=World War II

|awards=Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves

|laterwork=Police officer}}

Ernst Wellmann (14 January 1904 – 17 July 1970) was an officer in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

Awards and decorations

Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (20 September 1939) & 1st Class (21 October 1939)Thomas 1998, p. 433.

German Cross in Gold on 8 June 1942 as Major in the I./Schützen-Regiment 3Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 505.

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves

Knight's Cross on 2 September 1942 as Oberstleutnant and commander of I./Panzergrenadier-Regiment 3Fellgiebel 2000, p. 358.

342nd Oak Leaves on 30 November 1943 as Oberstleutnant and commander of Panzergrenadier-Regiment 3Fellgiebel 2000, p. 65.

References

=Citations=

=Bibliography=

{{Cite book

|last=Fellgiebel

|first=Walther-Peer

|authorlink=Walther-Peer Fellgiebel

|year=2000

|orig-date=1986

|title=Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile

|trans-title=The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches

|language=German

|location=Friedberg, Germany

|publisher=Podzun-Pallas

|isbn=978-3-7909-0284-6

}}