Adolf Hempel
Adolf Hempel (born January 26, 1915 in Dürrenbach , Schleiz district office ; † June 2, 1971 in Bonn - Bad Godesberg ) was an officer in the Wehrmacht Air Force and later in the Bundeswehr Air Force .
Life
Hempel joined the police in 1934 and switched to the flak troops of the newly established Luftwaffe on August 1, 1935 . After he was promoted to first lieutenant on June 1, 1939 , he took over as battery chief of a battery in Flak Regiment 8 in November, where he was promoted to captain on October 1, 1941 , who on September 2, 1942, was promoted to second general staff officer ( Ib) followed into the staff of the 17th Flak Division . On December 30, 1942, he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross as chief of the staff battery in the Flak-Lehr Regiment (motorized). Then he returned to the division staff. From February 24, 1944 he exercised the same activity in the staff of III. Flak Corps , from where he was transferred to the General Staff of the Air Force after his promotion to major on September 1, 1944 .
After the war Hempel studied philology . With a thesis on George Gissing as a naturalist in his early works , he was in 1950 at the University of Freiburg Dr. phil. PhD. Among other things, he worked as an exchange teacher in France , passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools in 1952 and worked as a study assessor.
On May 2, 1956, he enlisted in the Air Force of the Armed Forces and served as Brigadier General from 1 March 1962 to 30 September 1962, then again from 1 April 1966 to 31 March 1968 as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force active . In between he was Chief of Staff in the Air Force Command and from April 1, 1964 to March 31, 1966, Commander of the 3rd Air Force Division. He then took over as Lieutenant General from April 1, 1968 to June 2, 1971 in the Air Force Office .
Web links
- Henry L. deZeng IV, Douglas G. Stankey: Air Force Officer Career Summaries, Section G – K. (PDF) 2017, p. 297 , accessed on March 31, 2018 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adolf Hempel. In: Munzinger Online / People - International Biographical Archive. Munzinger Archive, April 1, 1968, accessed on April 24, 2018 .
- ^ F-104 Associations. 3rd Air Force Division 1957–1999. Retrieved April 11, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hempel, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer in the Air Force of the Wehrmacht and the Air Force of the Bundeswehr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Durrenbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd June 1971 |
| Place of death | Bonn |