Sorge, Ernst (Aufklärungsgruppe 124)
- Date of birth:
- January 25th, 1912 (Gieboldehausen/Hanover, Germany)
- Date of death:
- May 21st, 1992 (Gieboldehausen/Lower Saxony, Germany)
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
00.00.1935: Infanterie-Regiment 16, Reichswehr
00.00.1935: transferred tp the Luftwaffe for pilot training
00.00.1937-00.00.1938: flew 72 combat missions as a long-range reconnaissance pilot for the Condor Legion
00.00.1940: Feldwebel, campaign in France and England
00.00.1941: promoted to Oberfeldwebel
07.10.1941: Ofw., awarded the Ehrenpokal
07.02.1942: Ofw., awarded the DKiG, Aufklärungs-Kette, AOK Norwegen
Reported the pilot of the most successful crew in the "Fern-Aufklärungskette Lappland" - the other crewman were :
-Oberfeldwebel Ernst Kaiser (DKiG 13.01.1942)
-Uffz. Schankweiler
-Hptm. Konrad Knabe, Observer (DKiG 23.12.1941, RK 16.04.1943)
00.04.1942: 2.(F) Staffel, Aufklärungs-Gruppe 22
01.12.1942: promoted to Leutnant
01.04.1943: promoted to Hauptmann (Kr.O.) RDA 01.02.1942
02.11.1943: Hauptmann, 1.(F) Staffel, Aufklärungs-Gruppe 124, Ju 88D-1 Werknummer 430.802 coded "G2 + FK", pilot reported "Safe" after being hit by Russian flak in his Ju 88 but was able to make a force landing on the Alakurtti airfield
26.03.1944: Hauptmann, 1.(F) Staffel, Aufklärungs-Gruppe 124, awarded the RK
00.04.1945-00.05.1945: Hauptmann, Ramm-Kommando, „Sonderkommando Elbe"
07.04.1945: participated in the Ramm-Attack on American bombers but was unable to complete the mission as a result of a smoking engine, making an emergency landing near Lüneburg.
00.00.1956: Hauptmann, Bundeswehr
30.09.1965: retired as Hauptmann
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Flugzeugführerabzeichen
Nationalist Pilots Badge
- Period:
- Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
- Awarded on:
- June 6th, 1939
- Awarded on:
- 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant)
- Unit:
- Aufklärungsstaffel
- Awarded on:
- October 7th, 1941
Vapaudenristin 3.luokka (VR 3)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant)
- Unit:
- A-Kette, Armee-Oberkommando Norwegen
- Awarded on:
- February 7th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Hauptmann (Flight Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- Flugzeugführer, 1.(F) Staffel, Aufklärungsgruppe 124, Kette Lappland
- Awarded on:
- March 26th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Sources
- Photo 1: Timo Schicke
- Photo 2:
- Photo: Timo Schicke
- http://www.ritterkreuztraeger.info/rk/s/S752Sorge-Ernst.pdf - - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
- Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X
- Patzwall K.D., Der Ehrenpokal für besondere Leistung im Luftkrieg, Studien zur Geschichte der Auszeichnungen, Band 6, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2008, ISBN 978-3-931533-08-3
- Hptm. Ernst Sorge/RKT Fernaufklärer - Axis History Forum
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