Date of birth:

November 23rd, 1921 (Bremerhaven/Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany)

Date of death:

January 23rd, 1988 (St. Märgen/Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

W.B.K. Giessen
15.11.1939: entered the Luftwaffe, began training with 2./ Fl.Ausb.Rgt. 51
08.01.1940: transferred to Fl.Ausb.Rgt. 31
21.08.1940: transferred to FFS C 8
01.12.1940: transferred to BFS Wien-Aspern
15.01.1941: transferred to I./ Grosse KFS 4 then 1./ KG 3
00.001941: transferred to 11./ KG 3
00.00.1942: appointed Adjutant of I./ KG 3
25.05.1942: Leutnant, awarded the Ehrenpokal
03.10.1942: Leutnant, awarded DKiG, Stab I./ KG 3
Mid 1943: appointed Staka 4./ KG 3, by which point he had attained 323 missions
01.07.1943: in KG 3, promoted to Oberleutnant
00.08.1943: transferred to III./ KG 3
24.11.1943: appointed Staka 9./ KG 3
00.03.1944: transferred to 3./ NJG 7 and appointed Staka 3./ NJG 7 due to unit renaming
01.06.1944-01.08.1944: Oberleutnant, appointed Staka 4.(Erg.)/ NJG 7
09.06.1944: Oberleutnant, awarded the Ritterkreuz for completing 323 combat missions as a pilot and later Staka in I./ KG 3, and the destruction of 48 tanks
and 20 planes on the ground
01.07.1944: promoted to Hauptmann
08.08.1944-00.12.1944: appointed Staka of 4.(Erg)/ NJG 7
15.10.1944: Hauptmann, appointed Staka 11./ NJG 3
00.12.1944: appointed Staka 8./ NJG 2
11.04.1945-08.05.1945: Hauptmann, appointed Kdr. III./ NJG 2
Credited with 360 combat missions

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