Wieting, Franz

Date of birth:: June 26th, 1911 (Kiel/Province of Schleswig-Holstein/Kingdom of Prussia, Germany)
Date of death:: June 29th, 1941 (20km North of Saloniki/Central Macedonia, Kingdom of Greece)
Buried on:: German War Cemetery Prilep
Nationality:: German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

Flew about 100 combat missions.

ca 1933: entered the Reichsmarine as an officer candidate and trained at Flensburg-Mürwik
01.05.1935: transferred to the Luftwaffe and sent to LKS Berlin-Gatow and received officer and pilot training
01.04.1937: Oberfähnrich, RLM pool (Schul.Etat), promoted to Leutnant - RDA 01.04.1936
01.08.1939: promoted to Oberleutnant and transferred to A./ Fl.Ausb.Rgt. 33
00.00.1939: Staka Stabsstaffel X. Fl.Korps
00.09.1939: Ord.Offz. to Gen. Hugo Sperrle
09.09.1939: Oberleutnant, transferred to 3./ KG 53
15.09.1939: reassigned to 2./ KG 53
00.10.1939: transferred to KG 30
19.04.1940: damaged a light cruiser 'Emile Bertin' West of Namsos
00.05.1940: appointed Staka 6./ KG 30
19.06.1940: Oberleutnant in 6./ KG 30, awarded the Ritterkreuz for noteworthy success against enemy warships and shipping in the North Sea
00.02.1941: transferred to Stab des X. Fl.Korps
00.03.1941: Staka Stabsstaffel, X. Fl.Korps
28.06.1941: Hauptmann, Flugbereitschaft Gen.Kdo. Fliegerkorps X KIA in plane crash during a courier flight - his Ju 88 A-5 coded 'P4+BA' and Werk-Nummer 6349 crashed 20 km North of Salonika while en-route from Wien-Aspern to Athens - due to involuntary ground contact
Credited with about 100 missions
Buried in war cemetery Prilep/Northern Macedonia
Son of Kriegsmarine Vizeadmiral Franz Wieting senior (1876 - 1966)

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Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Oberleutnant (Flying Officer)
Unit:: Staffelkapitän, 6. Staffel, Kampfgeschwader 30
Awarded on:: June 19th, 1941

Awarded the Knight's Cross for actions during the Norway campaign. There he damaged a heavy cruiser west of Namsos and conducted a number of effective bombing and strafing runs in support of Dietl's forces around Narvik. He was among the first German bomber pilots to be decorated with this award.