Heinz Nowotnik

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Heinz Nowotnik
Born	29 March 1920 Schmarse/Züllichau
Died	31 May 1999 (1999-06-01) (aged 79) Wolfenbüttel
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Waffen SS
Years of service	1939–45
Rank	Obersturmführer
Unit	1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
Commands held	14th Machine Gun Company,1st SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment
Battles/wars	World War II
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Iron Cross 1st Class Iron Cross 2nd Class Eastern Front Medal Sudetenland Medal

Heinz Nowotnik (29 March 1920 – 31 May 1999) was an Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) in the Waffen SS who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, on the 14 May 1944 while in command of the 14th Machine Gun Company,1st SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment LSSAH (LSSAH).

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v t e Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
SS-Division (motorized) SS-Infanterie-Regiment (motorized) "LSSAH"	Sepp Dietrich¹ (Oak Leaves, Swords & Diamonds) Gerhard Pleiß Heinrich Springer Theodor Wisch (Oak Leaves & Swords)
Stab	Rudolf Lehmann² (Oak Leaves)
SS-Panzer-Regiment 1 "LSSAH"	Josef Armberger Wilhelm Beck Hans Dauser Martin Groß Konrad Heubeck Heinrich Kling Herbert Kuhlmann Hans Malkomes Joachim Peiper³ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Werner Pötschke (Oak Leaves) Hans Reimling Rudolf von Ribbentrop Georg Schönberger Franz Staudegger Helmut Wendorff Michael Wittmann⁴ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Balthasar Woll Max Wünsche⁵ (Oak Leaves)
SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 1 "LSSAH"	Hermann Dahlke Albert Frey (Oak Leaves) Erich Göstl Erich Grätz Max Hansen (Oak Leaves) Frank Hasse Heinz Nowotnik Alfred Schneidereit Fritz Witt⁶ (Oak Leaves)
SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 2 "LSSAH"	Hans Becker Josef Diefenthal Gerhard Grebarsche Paul Guhl Georg Karck Hugo Kraas (Oak Leaves) Joachim Peiper³ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Georg Preuß Rudolf Sandig Bernhard Siebken Werner Wolff
SS-Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 1 "LSSAH"	Alfred Günther Heinrich Heimann Fritz Henke Karl Rettlinger Emil Wiesemann
SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 1 "LSSAH"	Kurt Sametreiter
SS-(Panzer-)Aufklärungs-Abteilung 1 "LSSAH"	Gerhard Bremer⁷ (Oak Leaves) Gustav Knittel Kurt Meyer⁸ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Hermann Weiser
SS-Flakartillerie-Abteilung 1 "LSSAH"	Walter Pitsch?
SS-Panzergrenadier Ausbildungs und Ersatz-Bataillon 1 "LSSAH"	Friedrich Blond?
¹Diamonds with the I SS Panzer Corps. ²Oak Leaves with the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. ³Knight's Cross with SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 2, Oak Leaves and Swords with SS-Panzer-Regiment 1. ⁴Swords with 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion. ⁵Oak Leaves with SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 "Hitlerjugend" (12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend). ⁶Knight's with SS-Infanterie-Regiment "Deutschland" (2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich). ⁷Oak Leaves with SS-Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 12 "Hitlerjugend" (12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend). ⁸Swords with the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. This along with the ? (question mark) indicates doubt regarding the veracity and formal correctness of the listing.