Marquardt, Heinz
- Date of birth:
- December 29th, 1922 (Braunsberg/Eastern Prussia, Germany)
- Date of death:
- December 19th, 2003 (Hammersbach, Germany)
- Nationality:
- German (1933-1945, Third Reich)
Biography
Heinz Marquard started his flying life at the age of 17 as a glider pilot and volunteered for the Luftwaffe in 1940.
1942 : fighter training in the JG 2 „Richthofen".
August 1943 : Eastern Front with the JG 51
November 1944 : awarded the RK credited with 89 air victories
Insgesamt wurden 121 Luftsiege
anerkannt, weitere 16 wurden nicht bestätigt. Am
1st May 1945 : shot down during an aerial fight and sent to a Lazarett where he became POW.
August 1956 : Leutnant and flight instructor in the BW .
Trained as a Jet pilot he became Jet instructor in the Waffenschule 10 in Oldenburg then Squadron leader in the JG 73.
30 September 1973 : retired as an Oberstleutnant.
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Luftwaffe Ehrenpokale für besondere Leistungen im Luftkrieg
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- July 26th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant)
- Unit:
- 10. Staffel, III. Gruppe, Jagdgeschwader 51, Luftwaffe
- Awarded on:
- September 10th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant)
- Unit:
- 13./Jagdgeschwader 51 “Mölders”
- Awarded on:
- November 18th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- October 23rd, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- June 24th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Sources
- Photo: Willi Schumacher Collection
- Nutzungsbedingungen : Home - Auktionshaus Andreas Thies
- - OBERMAIER, E., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Luftwaffe, Hoffmann, 1989.
- PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
- Verleihungsurkunde DKiG
- Aces of the Luftwaffe
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