Date of birth:

January 7th, 1917 (Erda/Hesse, Germany)

Date of death:

November 25th, 1942 (Cape Serrat, Tunesia)

Nationality:

German

01.09.1939: RDA as Leutnant
08.10.1940: Leutnant, Erg. ZGr. Vaerlose interned - Fw 58 C (KT+AF) blundered into Swedish air space during a navigational training mission, forced down vic Ljungbyhed in bad weather and interned - later returned via Denmark
01.11.1941: promoted to Oberleutnant
01.12.1941: Leutnant, Wekusta 26, awarded the Ehrenpokal
16.07.1942: Oberleutnant, awarded DKiG, Wekusta 26
25.11.1942: Oberleutnant and pilot in Wekusta 26/1, MIA – in Ju 88 D-1 coded '4U+GH' believed shot down into the sea by a fighter off Algiers between the Bay of Algiers and Cape Sorrat
18.05.1943: Oberleutnant and Flugzeugführer Wekusta 26 - 6.(F)/ Aufkl.Gr. 122
posthumously awarded the Ritterkreuz
01.08.1944: officially listed as MIA

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• - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
  - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
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