Date of birth:

May 20th, 1884 (Kremsier/Kromìøíž/Moravia, Czech Republic)

Date of death:

February 6th, 1945 (Berlin-Spandau, Germany)

Nationality:

Austrian (1938-1945, Reichsgau)

Promotions:
18.08.1907: Leutnant
01.11.1912: Oberleutnant
01.07.1915: Hauptmann
01.07.1920: Major
01.06.1924: Oberstleutnant
01.02.1930: Oberst
22.06.1936: Generalmajor
01.09.1940: Generalleutnant
01.03.1942: General der Flieger

Career:
18.08.1907: entered the Austrian Army
18.08.1907-10.1912: 13. Infanterie Regiment
10.1912-08.1914: War Academy in Vienna
08.-09.1914: Staff 1. Brigade
09.-01.1915: Staff 23. Infanterie Brigade
01.-11.1915: Staff 30. Infanterie Brigade
11.1915-03.1916: Staff 15. Infanterie Brigade
03.-09.1916: Staff 9. Infanterie Brigade
09.1916-03.1917: Quartermaster Department of the 3. Armee
05.1917-03.1918: General Staff of the 3. Armee
03.1918-11.1918: General Staff of the Army High Command East
11.-12.1918: Officer Castle Guard - Wien
12.1918-31.08.1921: Office Command of the State Office for Army matters
01.09.1921-31.05.1925: Staff - Brigade Command 2
01.08.1930-03.08.1933: Director Army Administration Station - Wien
01.12.1934-30.11.1935: Department 1 - Federal Ministry of State Defense
30.11.1936: retired
17.03.1938: entered the German Luftwaffe
17.03.1938-18.03.1939: officer with special duties - RLM
01.06.1938: 01.06.38 recalled to service with the Luftwaffe and concurrently dispatched on an information gathering tour to Lw.-Gruppenkdo. 3, KG 355,Aufklärungsgruppen 15 and 25, St.G. 165, JG 135, Luftgau-Kdos. VII, XIII u. XII, Grosse KFS Lechfeld, LKS Furstenfeldbruck, Wehrersatz-Inspektion München, Luftflotte 3 and 4 and again to Luftgau-Kdo. XIII
19.03.-30.04.1939: Commander of the Processing and Transit Station - Prague
01.05.1939-22.10.1941: Commander Air Region VIII
23.10.1941-09.09.1942: Commander Field Air Region Kiev
10.09.1942-15.03.1943: Commander Field Air Region Kharkov
15.03.-18.07.1943: detached Luftwaffe Command Souht East
19.07.1943-29.08.1944: Commander Air Region XXX - Belgrade
29.08.-01.11.1944: Commander of the German Luftwaffe North Balkans
01.11.1944-06.02.1945: arrested and tried by the Reichs War Court
13.11.1944: sentenced to deathby order of a special court of the Reichsmarschall due to "severe mismanagement in his headquarters and staff and rampant defeatism throughout his Luftgau area." Postwar historical accounts state that Waber was also engaged in blackmarketing and the misappropriation of government property
02.01.1945: dishonorable discharge from the Luftwaffe
06.02.1945: executed by firing squad in Spandau Prison

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