Date of birth:

March 27th, 1920 (Warstein, Germany)

Date of death:

June 23rd, 2005 (Warstein, Germany)

Nationality:

German

Flew a total of only 34 to 59 sorties with enemy contact, yet achieved a total of 22 to 24 aerial victories (of which 19 to 21 were four-engined bombers, 3 in the East).

00.09.1939: Flugzeugmechaniker
00.01.1943: training as a fighter pilot
00.06.1943: I./ Jagdgeschwader 104
00.12.1943: promoted to Unteroffizier
00.01.1944: IV. Gruppe, Jagdgeschwader 3 "Udet"
26.02.1944: IV. Gruppe moved from Venlo in the Netherlands to Salzwedel in central Germany
11.04.1944: 1st air victory, 11. Staffel, JG 3, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
13.04.1944: a B-17 bomber
15.04.1944: Staffel renamed 11. Sturmstaffel, JG 3
18.04.1944: two B-17 bombers
19.04.1944: a B-17
24.04.1944: a B-17 bomber
08.05.1944: shot down by B-17, emergency landing at Uelzen
07.07.1944: two B-24 Liberator shot down over the town of Oschersleben, his 10th and 11th victories
03.08.1944: two further B-24s, his Fw 190 A-8 was hit again, bailed out
23.10.1944: Fahnenjunker-Oberfeldwebel credited with 19 four-engine bombers
01.12.1944: promoted to Leutnant
21.01.1945: IV. Sturmgruppe was ordered to relocate from Gütersloh Airfield to Märkisch Friedland, present-day Mirosławiec, located approximately 75 kilometers east of Stargard and attached fo the 1. Flieger-Division, II. Fliegerkorps
22.01.1945: Staffelkapitän, 14. Sturmstaffel, JG 3
19.02.1945: a Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter
15.03.1945: two Petlyakov Pe-2 bombers
02.04.1945: transferred to Jagdgeschwader 7 "Nowotny"
08.05.1945: US POW
28.05.1945: released

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• Photo 1: Known to STIWOT
• - OBERMAIER, E., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Luftwaffe, Hoffmann, 1989.
  - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
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