Kaiser, Herbert (Höhne, Herbert)
- Date of birth:
- March 16th, 1916 (Jessen/Herzberg/Saxony, Germany)
- Date of death:
- December 5th, 2003 (Felde/Kiel, Germany)
- Service number:
- SS-Nr.: // NSDAP-Nr.:
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
Achieved a total of 68 aerial victories (including 42 in the East) over the course of 1200 sorties.
Herbert Höhne took his mother's maiden name Kaiser in 1940.
Career:
1938-1939: served in II.(Jagd-)/Tr.Gr. 186 (later III./JG 77)
05.05.1940: Unteroffizier, 5./JGr. 186, 1st victory, a Blenheim 60 km north of Terschelling
15.01.1942: Oberfeldwebel, 8./JG 77, his 27th victory, a Soviet I-16 Rata
12.05.1942: a double Soviet victory, a R-Z and an Su-2
10.06.1942: his 40th victory, a Soviet aircraft
06.07.1942: Ofw., 9./JG 77
28.10.1942: unhurt? - shot down, forced landing in the desert, returned 2 days later 08.01.1943: Ofw., 8./JG 77
25.09.1943: Ofw., 3./JG 77
19.10.1943: promoted to SS-Rottenführer
11.01.1944: Ofw., 3./JG 1
10.02.1944: Lt., 9./JG 1 unhurt ? - Bf 109 G-6 coded 'Yellow 8 +' collision with service cart on take-off at Venlo
01.03.1944: transferred from JG 77 to JG 1
11.04.1944: Ofw., 7./JG 1
13.05.1944: his 65th victory, a P-47 at Neumünster-Plön
30.07.1944: his 68th, and last victory, a P-47 over northern France, Erprobungskommando 262, unhurt? - Me 262 A-2a Werknummer 170.058, bailed out
06.08.1944: severely WIA - Bf 109G-6 Werknummer 413.577 coded "White 12" in combat with Spitfires ivo Paris and hospitalized until 02.1945
01.03.1945: Leutnant, in Jagd-Verband 44
08.05.1945: surrednder to US - US POW
Ace credited with ca.1,200 combat missions and 68 air victories
01.01.1957: joined the Bundeswehr
01.03.1972: retired as an Oberstleutnant
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Flugzeugführerabzeichen
- Awarded on:
- 1938
- Awarded on:
- 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Feldwebel (Sergeant)
- Unit:
- 8. Staffel, JG 77 'Herz As'
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant)
- Unit:
- 8./ JG 77 'Herz As'
- Awarded on:
- March 30th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Unit:
- 8. Staffel, Jagdgeschwader 77 'Herz As'
- Awarded on:
- August 9th, 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant)
- Unit:
- 8. Staffel, III. Gruppe, Jagdgeschwader 77 "Herz As", Luftwaffe
- Awarded on:
- March 30th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant)
- Unit:
- Flugzeugführer, 8. Staffel, III. Gruppe, Jagdgeschwader 77 "Herz As", Luftwaffe
- Awarded on:
- March 14th, 1943
“Oberfeldwebel Kaiser has shot down 53 enemy aircraft over the course of many hard-fought aerial engagements.”
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- August 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Sources
- Photo 1: Willi Schumacher Collection
- - OBERMAIER, E., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Luftwaffe, Hoffmann, 1989.
- Herbert Kaiser ca 1938.
- herbert kaiser ca 1943.
- Herbert Kaiser in his cockpit.
- herbert kaiser awarded RK.
- Herbert Kaiser ca 1944.
- Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
- Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X
- Die träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eiserne Kreuz 1939 - 1945
- Die Grenz-Zeitung (Edition 78/79)
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