Question: What highest Nazi award did Karl-Heinrich Brenner earn?

Context articles: Gau Badge
Arlberg railway
Dan Brenner
Karl-Heinrich Brenner
Gauleiter
Wendy Brenner
Zionism in the Age of the Dictators
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
German submarine U-2529
German submarine U-269

A Gau Badge was a political award of the Nazi Party, issued by the various Gauleiters of the Nazi political districts for a variety of achievements.
 Each Gau of Nazi Germany, which was a geographical region parallel to the traditional German states (known as "Länder") issued a unique Gau badge.
 Regulations for award were determined entirely by the Gauleiter as were any award degrees.
 Some Gauleiters issued single Gau badges while others awarded in degrees of bronze, silver, and gold.
 A handful of Gau badges were struck in gold with diamonds, normally ceremonially intended for Adolf Hitler.
 By default, Hitler qualified automatically for the highest degree of every Gau badge due to his status as Führer of the Nazi Party.
The Arlberg Railway (German: "Arlbergbahn" ), which connects the Austrian cities Innsbruck and Bludenz, is Austria's only "east-west" mountain railway.
 It is one of the highest standard gauge railways in Europe and the second highest in Austria, after the Brenner.
 The 135.7 km line is a highly problematic mountain railway, in part because it is threatened by avalanches, mudslides, rockfalls and floods.
 It is operated by the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) and frequented by international trains, including the Orient Express.
Dan Brenner (born Daniel Abraham Brenner, December 19, 1963) is an American songwriter, composer, and musician.
 Brenner was a member of the band Magnet, with Moe Tucker (former drummer in the Velvet Underground) in the late 1990s, and of the rap/performance-art band Razor Magnet with his brother, filmmaker Evan Brenner from 1985-1988.
 He was a member of the Boston bands Green Fuse and Gunga Din in the early 1990s, and prior to that, while a student at Harvard College, The Love Monsters, with brothers Matt Wilson and Dan Wilson, who later formed the Minneapolis bands Trip Shakespeare and Semisonic.
 Brenner has written the scores for three feature films, including Rhythm Thief (Special Jury Prize at Sundance, 1995), Spare Me ("Priz Tournage" winner Avignon Film Festival, 1993), and The Riddle (a.k.a. Sasha’s Riddle, winner Long Island Film Festival, 2010, official selection Toronto Film Festival 1997).
 Brenner also co-wrote the script for The Riddle, for which he was awarded the 2010 Mario Puzo Screenplay Award.
 Some of Brenner's film composition is credited as "Danny Brenner," while some of his acting work is credited as "Daniel Brenner."
 He is credited as Producer on the Foggy Notion CD Mission.
Karl-Heinrich Brenner (1 May 1895 – 14 February 1954) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era who served in the police and the Waffen-SS.
 He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.
A Gauleiter (] ) was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP (more commonly known as the Nazi Party) or the head of a "Gau" or of a "Reichsgau".
 The word can be singular or plural, depending on the context.
 "Gauleiter" was the second highest Nazi Party paramilitary rank, subordinate only to the higher rank "Reichsleiter" and to the position of "Führer".
 During World War II, the rank of "Gauleiter" was obtained only by direct appointment from Adolf Hitler.
Wendy Brenner is an American author and professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
 Brenner is the author of two books, the first of which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
 Her short stories and essays have appeared in such magazines as "Allure", "Seventeen", "Travel & Leisure", "The Oxford American", "The Sun (magazine)", "Ploughshares", and "Mississippi Review", and have been anthologized in "The Best American Essays", "Best American Magazine Writing", and "New Stories From the South", as well as other anthologies.
 She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for her fiction, and is a Contributing Editor for " The Oxford American".
 In 2016, she was named one of the "Queens of Nonfiction: 56 Women Journalists Everyone Should Read" on "New York" magazine's "The Cut" blog.
Zionism in the Age of the Dictators is a 1983 work by American Trotskyist Lenni Brenner.
 The book makes the argument that Zionist leaders collaborated with Fascism, particularly in Nazi Germany, in order to build up a Jewish presence in Palestine.
 One edition of the book features on its cover a medal struck by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels to commemorate a visit by Leopold von Mildenstein of the Nazi SS elite corps to Palestine as a guest of the Zionist Federation of Germany.
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (German: "Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes" ), or simply the Knight's Cross ("Ritterkreuz "), and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II.
German submarine "U-2529" was a Type XXI U-boat (one of the ""Elektroboote"") of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine", built for service in World War II.
 She was ordered on 6 November 1943, and was laid down on 29 September 1944 at the Blohm & Voss yard at Hamburg, as yard number 2529.
 She was launched on 13 November 1944, and commissioned under the command of "Oberleutnant zur See" Karl-Heinrich Feufel, on 22 February 1945.
German submarine "U-269" was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" during World War II.
 The U-boat was laid down on 18 September 1941 by Bremer Vulkan at Bremen-Vegesack, launched on 24 June 1942 and commissioned on 19 August under the command of "Oberleutnant zur See" Karl-Heinrich Harlfinger.