Albert Mühlig-Hofmann

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Albert Mühlig-Hofmann (born January 19, 1886 in the Oberförsterei Grünheide near Posen ; † May 17, 1980 in Heidelberg ) was a pilot in the Imperial Air Force in World War I and an official in the Reich Aviation Ministry during the time of the National Socialist dictatorship 1933–1945.

Life

In 1904 Mühlig-Hofmann joined the Jäger Battalion No. 14 as a flag junior . In 1912 he was trained as a pilot and took part in the First World War from 1914. From May 1915 to July 1916 he was the leader of Feldflieger -teilung 38, after which he held administrative posts in the air force. Between June and November 1918 he took over the aviation department 219 (artillery). After the armistice he was head of Aviation Department 414 for a few months until he was dismissed from military service in January 1920 with the rank of major . For the next three years he was employed as a police officer in Szczecin . From late 1922 until its liquidation in July 1926, Mühlig-Hofmann was director of Rumpler Luftverkehrs AG .

After founding the aviation department in the Reich Ministry of Transport, he worked there in an advisory capacity from 1924. On February 2, 1933, this department was transferred to the newly founded Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM). Mühlig-Hofmann became department head there with the rank of ministerial director . From 1935 he represented the RLM on the supervisory board of the Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei . In July 1940 he became office group leader in the RLM and in October of the same year he received the military rank of lieutenant general . After the end of the war he was imprisoned for two years, from which he was released in 1947.

In the 1950s he was involved in the re-establishment of the traditional " Alte Adler " community, a group of flight pioneers who had acquired their flight license before August 1914 . He was the chairman of the group from 1960 to 1965.

German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39

Mühlig-Hofmann sat down at the Deutsche Lufthansa committed the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 the catapult ship Swabia and two flying boats of the type Dornier Wal J II to provide. A mountain range discovered during the expedition in Neuschwabenland, Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains, was named in his honor.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.frontflieger.de , accessed on May 18, 2015
  2. ↑ Portrait on www.flieger-album.de , accessed on April 28, 2011
  3. ↑ Article on Rumpler Luftverkehr AG at www.europeanairlines.no accessed on June 30, 2010
  4. ^ Ministerialdirigent Albert Mühlig-Hofmann ( Memento of October 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on Axis Biographical Research
  5. ^ Chairman and President of the Alte Adler since 1927 . In: Homepage of the Alten Adler eV . Retrieved April 22, 2009.
  6. ^ Alfred Ritscher (ed.): Scientific and aviation results of the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 . tape 1 . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1942.
  7. ↑ K. Brunk: Cartographic work and German naming in Neuschwabenland, Antarktis Archived from the original on June 26, 2011. (pdf) In: German Geodetic Commission, Series E: History and development of geodesy . 24 / I, 1986, pp. 1-24. Retrieved April 19, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Mühlig-Hofmann, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician in the time of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünheide Forest District
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1980
Place of death Heidelberg