Aigen, Reinhard Georg (Kampfgeschwader 4)
- Date of birth:
- May 20th, 1913 (Heidenheim/Württemberg, Germany)
- Date of death:
- September 19th, 1943 (Orscha/Wizebsk Oblast, Belarus)
- Buried on:
- Soviet War Graves Shchatkovo
Grave: unk. - Nationality:
- German
Biography
06.12.1934: joined the Heer and served with 2./ Fahrrad-Abteilung in Lübeck
01.03.1935: transferred to the Luftwaffe and trained as a flight engineer
01.11.1935: Fliegergruppe Gotha (I./ KG 253)
00.09.1939: Bordmechaniker
00.07.1940-15.06.1943: 3./ KG 4
20.06.1941: Oberfeldwebel, awarded the Ehrenpokal
06.03.1942: Ofw., awarded DKiG, I./ KG 4
14.09.1943: WIA in the buttocks when his He 111 was hit by AA
15.06.1943: 10./ KG 4
01.09.1943: 7./ KG 4
19.09.1943: KIA in a mid-air collision after take-off while climbing through low cloud from Orscha-South, He 111 H-16 coded '5J+ER' crashed West of Dubrovka
09.06.1944: Ofw., posthumously awarded the Ritterkreuz., Bordmechaniker (flight engineer) in 7./ KG 4
Credited with at least 447 missions all as a bordmechaniker
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Fliegerschutzenabzeichen fur Bordschutzen und Bordmechaniker
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Unteroffizier
- Awarded on:
- November 18th, 1937
Verleihungsurkunde Nr 8645/37
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Unteroffizier
- Unit:
- I. / Kampfgeschwader 4 "General Wever"
- Awarded on:
- April 30th, 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Unteroffizier
- Unit:
- I. / Kampfgeschwader 4 "General Wever"
- Awarded on:
- September 28th, 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Unteroffizier
- Awarded on:
- October 24th, 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Unteroffizier
- Unit:
- I. / Kampfgeschwader 4
- Awarded on:
- September 12th, 1940
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberfeldwebel
- Unit:
- 3. / Kampfgeschwader 4 "General Wever"
- Awarded on:
- March 25th, 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant)
- Unit:
- Bordmechaniker, I. Gruppe, Kampfgeschwader 4
- Awarded on:
- June 20th, 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant)
- Unit:
- I. Gruppe, Kampfgeschwader 4, Luftwaffe
- Awarded on:
- March 6th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberfeldwebel
- Awarded on:
- August 3rd, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberfeldwebel
- Unit:
- III. / Kampfgeschwader 4 "General Wever"
- Awarded on:
- September 11th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant)
- Unit:
- Bordmechaniker, 7. Staffel, III. Gruppe, Kampfgeschwader 4, Luftwaffe
- Awarded on:
- June 9th, 1944
Preliminary document dated on June 26th 1944.
Posthumous awarded.
Sources
- Photo 1: Igor Poul
- - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
- PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
- URBANKE, AXEL & KAISER, JOCHEN, Die Ritterkreuzträger der Kampfflieger, Luftfahrtverlag-Start, 2011.
- Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Luftwaffe im Focus, Edition No 12/2007, porträt Reinhard Aigen
- Documents via Nordheide-Versand Kai Winkler
- das-ritterkreuz.de
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