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Christian Philipp

German General and Knight's Cross recipient

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ2965549 ↗
Source-derived summary

Christian Philipp (3 September 1893 – 16 October 1963) was a German general during World War II who commanded several divisions. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.

Awards and decorations

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 11 March 1945 as Generalleutnant and commander of 8.

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The public source identifies “Christian Philipp” as german General and Knight's Cross recipient. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Christian, Philipp and German.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1893, 1963, 1945—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1893-09-03. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Christian, Philipp and German providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2965549. VIAF identifies the subject as 4088167867550323060005. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1893, 1963 and 1945.

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This entry incorporates text from “Christian Philipp” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.