List of foreign recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross is based on the enactment Reichsgesetzblatt I S. 1573 of 1 September 1939 Verordnung über die Erneuerung des Eisernen Kreuzes (Regulation of the renewing of the Iron Cross).

List of foreign recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Section Title: Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Table Section Text: The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross is based on the enactment Reichsgesetzblatt I S. 1573 of 1 September 1939 Verordnung über die Erneuerung des Eisernen Kreuzes (Regulation of the renewing of the Iron Cross).

Name	Country	Rank	Unit	Date of award	Notes	Picture

Ion Antonescu	Romania	General	Commander-in-chief of the Military of Romania	6 August 1941	First non-German to receive this award	-

Ugo de Carolis	Italy	Brigadier General (Generale di Brigata)	Italian 52nd Motorised Division Torino	9 February 1942*	Killed in action 12 December 1941	-

Ugo Cavallero	Italy	General (Generale di Corpo d'Armata designato d'Armata)	Chief of the Italian Supreme Command	14 February 1942	—	-

Corneliu Dragalina	Romania	Lieutenant General	Romanian 6th Army Corps	6 August 1942	—	-

Ioan Dumitrache	Romania	Major General	2nd Romanian Mountain Division	21 November 1942	—	-

Petre Dumitrescu	Romania	Lieutenant General (General de armată)	3rd Romanian Army	1 September 1942	Awarded Oak Leaves 4 April 1944	Petre Dumitrescu.JPG

Emilio Esteban Infantes	Spain	Lieutenant General	Blue Division (250. Infantry Division)	3 October 1943	—	Emilio Esteban Infantes.JPG

Carlo Fecia di Cossato	Italy	Frigate Captain (Capitano di Fregata)	Italian submarine Enrico Tazzoli	19 March 1943	—	-

Italo Gariboldi	Italy	General (Generale di Corpo d'Armata designato d'Armata)	8th Italian Army	1 April 1943	—	-

Gianfranco Gazzana-Priaroggia	Italy	Corvette Captain (Capitano di Corvetta)	Italian submarine Archimede	26 May 1943*	Killed in action 24 May 1943	-

Ermil Gheorghiu	Romania	Major General (General de escadră)	General Staff of the Romanian Air Force	4 April 1944	—	-

Fedele de Giorgis	Italy	Major General (Generale di Divisione)	Italian 55 Infantry Division Savona	9 January 1942	—	-

Enzo Grossi	Italy	Frigate Captain (Capitano di Fregata)	Italian submarine Barbarigo	7 October 1942	—	-

Erik Heinrichs	Finland	General of the Infantry	Chief of Finnish General Staff	5 August 1944	—	-

József Vitéz Heszlényi	Hungary	Field Marshal-Lieutenant	3rd Hungarian Army	28 October 1944	—

Nikolaus von Horthy und von Nagybánya	Hungary	Admiral	Commander-in-chief of the Military of Hungary	10 September 1941	—	-

Ioan L. Hristea	Romania	Colonel	Romanian 2nd Călărași Cavalry Regiment	28 March 1943	—	—

Mihály von Ibrányi	Hungary	Field Marshal-Lieutenant	Hungarian Cavalry Division	26 November 1944	—	—

Gusztáv Vitéz Jány	Hungary	Colonel General	2nd Hungarian Army	31 March 1943	—	-

Emanoil Ionescu	Romania	Major General	Commander of the Romanian Air Force's Corpul I Aerian	10 May 1944	—	-

Mineichi Koga	Japan	Fleet Admiral	Japanese Chief of Fleet	12 May 1944*	Oak Leaves 12 May 1944	-

Radu Korne	Romania	Colonel	Romanian 8th Cavalry Division	18 December 1942	—

Geza Vitéz Lakatos Edler de Csíkszentsimon	Hungary	Colonel General	1st Hungarian Army	24 May 1944	—	-

Mihail Lascar	Romania	Brigadier General (General de brigadă)	Romanian 1st Mountain Brigade	18 January 1942	Awarded Oak Leaves 22 November 1942	-

Dezső László	Hungary	Colonel General	1st Hungarian Army	3 March 1945	—	-

Horia Macellariu	Romania	Rear Admiral	Romanian Naval Forces	21 May 1944	—	-

Augustín Malár	Slovakia	Generálmajor	Slovak Fast Division	23 January 1942	—	-

Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim	Finland	Field Marshal	Commander-in-chief of the Finnish Defense Forces	30 August 1941	Awarded Oak Leaves 5 August 1944	-

Gheorghe Manoliu	Romania	Divisions-General	4th Romanian Mountain Division	30 August 1942	—	-

Giulio Martinat	Italy	Brigadier General (Generale di Brigata)	Staff of the Italian Alpini-Corps	3 April 1943*	Killed in action 26 January 1943	-

Giovanni Messe	Italy	Lieutenant General (Generale di Corpo d'Armata)	Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia	23 January 1942	—	-

Béla Vitéz Miklós de Dálnok	Hungary	Field Marshal-Lieutenant	Hungarian Fast Corps	4 December 1941	—	-

Leonard Mociulschi	Romania	Major General	3rd Romanian Mountain Division	19 December 1943	—	—

Agustín Muñoz Grandes	Spain	Lieutenant General	Blue Division (250. Infantry Division)	12 March 1942	Awarded Oak Leaves 13 December 1942	-

Ioan Pălăghiţă	Romania	Major	Romanian I./Infantry Regiment 94	7 April 1943	—	—

Ioan Mihail Racoviţă	Romania	General of the Cavalry	4th Romanian Army	8 July 1944	—	-

Edgar Rădulescu	Romania	Brigadier General	11th Romanian Infantry Division	3 July 1944	—	—

Gheorghe Răscănescu	Romania	Major	Romanian I./Infantry Regiment 15	4 December 1942	—	-

Zoltán C. Vitéz Szügyi	Hungary	Colonel	Hungarian Infantry Division Szent László	12 January 1945	—	-

Nicolae Tătăranu	Romania	Major General	20th Romanian Infantry Division	17 December 1942	—	—

Corneliu Teodorini	Romania	Colonel	6th Cavalry Division	27 August 1943	Awarded Oak Leaves 8 December 1943	-

Jozef Turanec	Slovakia	Generálmajor	Slovak Fast Division	7 August 1942	—	-

Isoroku Yamamoto	Japan	Fleet Admiral	Commander-in-chief of the IJN Combined Fleet	27 May 1943*	Awarded Oak Leaves 27 May 1943 Awarded Swords 27 May 1943	-

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Colonel General Dezső László of Hungary became the foreign recipient of the award on 3 March 1945.

final_sentence: Colonel General Dezső László of Hungary became the foreign recipient of the award on 3 March 1945.