Date of birth:

February 27th, 1915 (Darmstadt/Hesse, Germany)

Date of death:

February 21st, 1997 (Bad Godesberg/North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Nationality:

German

Hans Bambey studied from 1933 to 1936 in Philosophy and Pedagogy to become a teacher. From 1936 and onwards he served in the Luftwaffe. He left the service at the end of the war as Hauptmann. Between 1948 and 1955 he was a Primary School Teacher. In 1955 he went back to serve with the new West-German Luftwaffe and finally left the service as Brigadier General.

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• - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
  - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
  - Personal records Hans Bambey