Date of birth:

November 6th, 1919 (Nieden-Johannisburg/Easternprussia, Germany)

Date of death:

April 12th, 1945 (over Breslau/Silesia, Germany)

Buried on:

German War Cemetery Groß Nädlitz
Grave: UNK.

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Leutnant Gerhard Hoffmann was killed on April 12th, 1945 when he was shot down over Breslau as Staffelführer 11. / Jagdgeschwader 52.

Note: Sources give different statements about the date of death. The date here used is taken from a message from the NS. Führung, Festung Breslau.

Career:
00.06.1942: transferred to 4./ JG 52
26.10.1942: Uffz., 4./ JG 52
08.12.1942: Uffz., 4./ JG 52
25.01.1943: Uffz., 4./ JG 52
03.03.1943: Uffz., 4./ JG 52
19.04.1943: Uffz., 5./ JG 52
27.05.1943: Uffz., 4./ JG 52
08.06.1943: Fw., 4./ JG 52
26.08.1943: Fw., 4./ JG 52
25.09.1943: Fw., 4./ JG 52, WIA - Bf 109 G-6 Werknummer 20.127 coded 'White 6 +-' in combat near Perejelaslaw, 80 km South of Kiev
10.02.1944: Fahnenjunker Fw., 4./ JG52
18.04.1944: Fahnenjunker Fw., 4./ JG 52
30.04.1944: Fhj.Fw., 4./ JG 52
01.05.1944: became an instructor with Erg.JGr. West
04.05.1944: Fhj.Ofw., 4./ JG 52
08.05.1944: Fahnenjunker Fw., 4./ JG 52
14.05.1944: Fahnenjunker Fw., awarded Ritterkreuz, 4./ JG 52
01.06.1944: promoted to Leutnant
00.06.1944-00.11.1944: instructor at a JFS
01.11.1944: Staka 4./ Erg. JG 1
15.03.1945-11.04.1945: Lt., Staka 11./ JG 52
11.04.1945: Lt., 11./ JG 52, MIA - Bf 109 G-14 coded 'Yellow 4' after taking off from Görlitz on a supply escort mission to Breslau and believed to have crashed between Görlitz and Breslau due to unknown causes, one version stating that he collided with his wingman, Unteroffizier Richard Geiger, both pilots died in the accident
Pilot credited with 130 air victories plus the destruction of at least 128
vehicles

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• Photo 1: Norbert Beyerlein
• Photo: Beyerlein sammlung
  
• - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
  - OBERMAIER, E., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Luftwaffe, Hoffmann, 1989.
  - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
  - PATZWALL, K. D., Der Ehrenpokal für besondere Leistung im Luftkrieg, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2008.
  - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
  - das-ritterkreuz.de
  - Volksbund
  - Message Memorial Service, Festung Breslau, April 13th, 1945
  

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