Adolf von Tutschek
Adolf Tutschek , since 1915 Ritter von Tutschek (* 16th May 1891 in Ingolstadt , † 15. March 1918 in Brancourt-le-Grand , Aisne ) was a Bavarian officer and fighter pilot in the First World War .
Life
He was the son of the chief staff physician first class Lorenz Tutschek and his wife in July, born Schmidbauer.
Tutschek attended St. Anna-Gymnasium in Augsburg and then joined the 3rd Infantry Regiment "Prince Karl of Bavaria" of the Bavarian Army on July 23, 1910 as a flag junior . There he was promoted to lieutenant on October 28, 1912 .
With the outbreak of World War I, Tutschek came to the western front as platoon leader in the 7th company of his regiment and was employed as a company commander three weeks later. From the end of August 1914 he was adjutant of the second battalion for three months and then took part in the battles in France, Galicia , Poland, Serbia and before Verdun as a company commander . In May 1915 his foot was wounded by shrapnel near Gorlice .
At the beginning of 1916 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order for storming and maintaining a strong Russian base near Petrylów with two companies of his regiment on August 10, 1915 . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Tutschek after his entry in the nobility register . He was promoted to first lieutenant on January 14, 1916. In March 1916, he suffered gas poisoning off Verdun.
After his recovery, he reported to the air force , attended the military flight school in Schleissheim near Munich and was sent to the front on the Somme in October 1916 .
In January 1917 transferred to Jagdstaffel 2 “ Boelcke ”, where he won his first aerial victory. In April 1917 he took over the Jasta 12 as squadron leader and achieved a total of 23 aerial victories by August 1917, was awarded the Order of Pour le Mérite , but was then severely wounded in the shoulder by a bullet in an aerial battle at an altitude of 2,600 m. At the beginning of 1918 von Tutschek, meanwhile promoted to captain , took over the leadership of Jagdgeschwader 2, scored four more kills and was killed when his plane crashed on March 15, 1918 near Brancourt.
He was buried in the Munich forest cemetery.
Honors
In addition to the Pour le Mérite and the Military Max Joseph Order, Tutschek was awarded the Iron Cross II and I Class, the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords and the Military Merit Order III for his military services . Class awarded with crown and swords. With 27 confirmed kills, he is one of the most successful German fighter pilots of the First World War.
During the time of National Socialism , the Reich Labor Service Department 7/303 in Grabenstätt am Chiemsee was named after von Tutschek.
Works
- Storms and victories in the air. Berlin 1918.
literature
- Rudolf von Kramer, Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: VIRTUTI PRO PATRIA. The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Acts of War and Book of Honor 1914-1918. Self-published by the Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order, Munich 1966, pp. 112, 425f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to the printed note on a postcard of the camp
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tutschek, Adolf von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tutschek, Adolf Ritter von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian officer, fighter pilot in the First World War |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ingolstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1918 |
| Place of death | at Brancourt-le-Grand |