Date of birth:

December 22nd, 1908 (Brünen/Rhineprovince, Germany)

Date of death:

September 2nd, 1942 (Luftwaffenlazarett Greifswald/Pomerania, Germany)

Nationality:

German

Promotions:
Oberschirrmeister
01.10.1938: Oberleutnant der Reserve
Hauptmann der Reserve

Hauptmann Gerhard Bauhaus flew a total of 482 bombing/dive-bombing sorties during WWII.

Career:
00.00.1935: entered the Luftwaffe as an Oberschirrmeister
21.05.1937: III./ LG 1
08.11.1939-07.02.1940: Olt, IV./ LG 1
08.02.1940-26.08.1940: Olt, Stab, St.G. 77
29.05.1940: Oblt. and Staka Stabsstaffel, St.G. 77, slightly wounded and force-landed South of Calais - Ju 87 B due to Anti-Aircraft damage over Dunkirk, France
27.08.1940-09.02.1941: Oblt., Stab, VIII. Fliegerkorps as Stokraft
10.02.1941-08.05.1941: 7./ St.G. 2
09.05.1941: Staka 8./ St.G. 77
25.05.1942: Hptm.(d.R.), awarded Ritterkreuz, Staka 8./ St.G. 77
22.07.1942: Hptm., 8./ St.G. 77 WIA - Ju 87 B-2 shot down by AA fire and severely WIA with burns during operations over Rostov and transported to a Lazarett in Taganrog
20.08.1942: flown by Ju 52 to Luftwaffenlazarett Greifswald
02.09.1942: DOW in the Luftwaffenlazarett Greifswald,Pomerania

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• - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
  - OBERMAIER, ERNST, Die Ritterkreuzträger der Luftwaffe, Verlag Dieter Hoffmann, Mainz, 1976.
  - das-ritterkreuz.de