Adolf Wolf (General)

Adolf Wolf (born May 23, 1899 in Braunschweig , † March 11, 1973 in Bayreuth ) was an officer , most recently Major General of the German Air Force in World War II .

Life

Promotions

• September 10, 1917 Private
• February 10, 1918 Fahnenjunker - NCO
• July 16, 1918 Ensign
• September 27, 1918 Lieutenant with patent
• June 12, 1920 Police lieutenant
• May 1, 1924 Lieutenant Police
• April 1, 1929 police captain
• May 1, 1935 Captain
• April 1, 1937 Major
• December 1, 1939 Lieutenant Colonel
• March 1, 1942 Colonel
• April 1, 1944 Major General

First World War and the interwar period

Wolf joined the 4th Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 164 on June 7, 1917 as a flag junior and was deployed there until November 1, 1918, where he a. a. acted as platoon leader . During his time there, from August 14, 1917 to November 3, 1917, he was also assigned to the infantry training department of the X. Army Corps and attended an Fahnenjunker course in Döberitz from March 17, 1918 to July 28, 1918 . On April 9, 1920, Wolf retired from active military service as a lieutenant in the course of the demobilization of his regiment, and from June 1920 took up a job with the police in Hanover . Here he was a platoon leader until May 21, 1929. During this time, Wolf was employed from May 4, 1921 to August 6, 1921 as an adjutant in the protective police department of Lampe in the central German rebellion area.

On May 22, 1929, he transferred to the police in Duisburg - Hamborn as a standby officer , where he remained until the end of September 1932. Then he was again adjutant at the Higher Police Officer School in Eiche until the end of July 1934 . This was followed from August 1, 1934 to April 30, 1935 as a company officer and deputy battalion commander at the State Police School in Sensburg ( East Prussia ). On May 1, 1935, Wolf became company commander in the Air Force Regiment General Göring , where he remained until the end of September 1937. Wolf had previously joined the Air Force on October 1, 1935. From October 1, 1937 to June 5, 1938, Wolf was the battery chief in Flak Regiment 64 .

Second World War

On June 6, 1938, he became the commander of the 1st Flak Department. Wolf held this post until June 4, 1940. With this, Wolf fought in the course of the western campaign as part of the II. Flak Corps in the Calais - Abbeville area . From June 5, 1940 to June 24, 1940, he was in charge of the Wolf flak group named after him . On the day of the end of the war in France, on June 25, 1940, Wolf was appointed commander of the Flak Regiment 52 , whose post he held until July 26, 1941. His anti-aircraft regiment was by the end of August 1940, first as during that time flak group Berlin as well as flak group Magdeburg used the same place, but struggled with the beginning of the Eastern campaign as part of the Army Group Center in the 9th Army During this time acted Wolf of 24 August 1940 to on October 5, 1940 also as diplomatic courier Berlin - Tokyo .

On July 26, 1941, Wolf took command of Flak Regiment 49 , which was also deployed in the central section of the Eastern Front and was also the commander of the Mannheim-Ludwigshafen flak group there . He held these two posts until August 24, 1943. The Flak Regiment 49 fought under his command until August 24, 1943 on the eastern front in the southern section of the front. Large parts of the flak regiment were previously lost in the Battle of Stalingrad . The regiment was therefore disbanded and reorganized in Italy in June 1943 . On August 25, 1943, Wolf gave up command of the regiment and became commander of the 10th Flak Brigade , which he led until the end of January 1944. On February 1, 1944, Wolf was promoted to commander of the 18th Flak Division , whose fate he directed until October 5, 1944. He then became the commander of the 13th Flak Division , with which he was captured on May 9, 1945 in the US and later British prisoners of war. Wolf was released from this on December 19, 1947.

Awards (selection)

• Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class as well as repeat clasp 1939 for both classes
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on June 20, 1940
• German cross in gold on July 10, 1944

literature

• Karl Friedrich Hildebrandt: The Generals of the Air Force 1935-1945 , Volume I: Abernetty - v. Gyldenfeldt, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-2207-4 , p. 538 f.