Date of birth:

December 18th, 1920 (Krietern/Breslau, Germany)

Date of death:

January 23rd, 1945 (Kloosterhaar, Netherlands)

Buried on:

German War Cemetery Ysselsteyn
Plot: Q. Row: 2. Grave: 32.

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

00.11.1939: entered the Luftwaffe as an officer candidate
00.04.1941: promoted to Leutnant
00.05.1941: 2./ KG 3
14.02.1942: Lt., awarded DKiG, 2./ KG 3
05.10.1942: Lt., awarded the Ehrenpokal
01.07.1943: in KG 3, promoted to Oberleutnant
00.07.1943: Staka 3./ KG 3
31.12.1943: Oblt. and Staka 3./KG 3, awarded the Ritterkreuz for destroying 37 tanks, 132 trucks, 77 railway cars, 7 AA positions and 2 railway bridges
00.09.1944: transferred to the Jagdwaffe and later assigned to 12./ JG 54
00.11.1944: Staka 12./ JG 54
00.01.1945-23.01.1945: Oblt., in IV./ JG 54
05.01.1945-23.01.1945: Oblt., Staka 11./ JG 54
23.01.1945: Oblt., 11./ JG 54, KIA – when his Fw 190 D-9 coded 'Yellow 1' was shot down by 3 Spitfires over Rheine - bailed out at 100 m near Kloosterhaar, Holland severely injured - died en route to hospital
Credited with destroying 37 tanks and two major bridges in about 350 missions

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• Photo 1: Igor Poul
• - SCHERZER, V., Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945, Scherzers Miltaer-Verlag, Jena, 2005.
  - URBANKE, AXEL & KAISER, JOCHEN, Die Ritterkreuzträger der Kampfflieger, Luftfahrtverlag-Start, 2011.
  - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht

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