Six steel-helmeted officers, all recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, escorted the coffin on its caisson and stood as guard of honour during the ceremony: "Oberstleutnant" Günther Radusch, "Oberstleutnant" Hans-Joachim Jabs, "Major" Rudolf Schoenert, "Hauptmann" Heinz Strüning, "Hauptmann" Karl Hadeball and "Hauptmann" Paul Zorner.
Lent je bil deležen državnega pogreba v Rajhovski kancleriji v Berlinu in je potekal 11. oktobra 1944.