Carl-Heinz Antonius Greve

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Carl-Heinz Antonius Greve (born October 17, 1920 in Munster , † May 21, 1998 in Kronburg ) was a German officer , most recently lieutenant general in the air force of the German armed forces .

Military biography

Promotions

Second World War

Greve was drafted by the Wehrmacht on November 15, 1939 and assigned to the Air Force . In the Air Training Regiment 12 in Brandenburg an der Havel he completed his basic training as a recruit by early January 1940 . His subsequent training as a pilot (license B2) took place in this regiment until September 4, 1940 in Königsberg . Greve obtained his C2 license from September 5, 1940 to January 2, 1941 at the Aviation School in Sorau . Following this, he received from February to June 1941 a blind flight training at the Great Fighting School 1 in Tutow . His next front-line training took place from June 22nd to August 8th, 1941 in the training squadron with the Fliegerführer Atlantik in Ansbach .

On August 9, 1941, Greve came as a squadron officer in the 3rd squadron of combat group 606 , which flew operations as a coastal aviation group under this name. Initially stationed on Westerland , the combat group came to Sicily in autumn 1941 and flew numerous missions there in the Mediterranean area until the end of December 1942. During this time Greve sank approx. 51,000 GRT of enemy ship space and sank a destroyer. He also damaged a British aircraft carrier . For this he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on October 7, 1942 . After the combat group was renamed the I. Group of Kampfgeschwader 77 , Greve rose to this squadron on December 21, 1942, to become the squadron captain of the 6th squadron; a function that he held until September 1943. In the same month, the squadron was converted to torpedo weapons . After attending a training course for association leaders, Greve rose to group commander of Group II in Kampfgeschwader 77 , which he then led mdWdGb until the end of July 1944 as the "lighting group" for Kampfgeschwader 26 and 77.

On July 25, 1944 Greve transferred to Kampfgeschwader 30 , where he m. d. W. d. G. b. the I. group was entrusted. In this function, Greve's group flew missions in the defense against the Allied landings in Normandy . In September 1944 it was withdrawn from the invasion front and the squadron converted to defend the Reich. On December 1, 1944, Greve's designation mdWdGb was dropped, so that he led the I. Group until May 3, 1945. During this time, his group was preparing for the Eisenhammer company , the planned bombing of energy plants near Moscow and Gorky , in the form of mistletoe deployments in Prague and Parchim . However, the plan was later dropped and Greve fell into Allied captivity on May 3, 1945, from which he was released on August 27, 1945.

After the war, Greve worked from October 15, 1945 to August 14, 1946 as a textile representative in his parents' business and then until July 15, 1956 as an employee of the Medical Association and the North Rhine-Westphalia National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Münster.

Army career

On July 16, 1956, Greve joined the Bundeswehr with the rank of major , where he attended an air force training course and aviation training schools in Fürstenfeldbruck and Landsberg until the end of 1957 . Furthermore, from August 8, 1957, an aeronautical refresher was carried out at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona . From January 1 to November 15, 1958, Greve acted as a task force officer and deputy commodore of Fighter Bomber Wing 31 in Nörvenich . On November 16, 1957, he rose to become the first commodore of Fighter Bomber Wing 34 in Faßberg and Memmingen . Greve held this position until the end of September 1964. After being employed as operations officer and deputy commander in the Sector Operations Center (SOC) in Birkenfeld and as head of division in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn (April 1965 to June 1967), Greve came on June 12, 1967 as a stage manager for the air force flying units and stage manager of the Luftwaffe combat units at the Porz-Wahn Air Force Office . He held this position until the end of September 1970. During this time, from July to October 1968 he was also in charge of commanding the 1st Air Force Division in Meßstetten , of which he became commander on October 1, 1970 and commanded until October 27, 1974. On October 28, 1974 changed Greve as Commander of the 4th Allied Tactical Air Force (ATAF) to the Ramstein Air Base and later Heidelberg . He held this position until the end of March 1981. On March 31, 1981, Greve retired from military service with the rank of lieutenant general .

Greve was married and has one child.

Awards

literature

  • Heinz-Peter Würzenthal: The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr , Volume 2, Gaedcke – Hoff, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 978-3-7648-2369-6 , pp. 116-118.
personal data
SURNAME Greve, Carl-Heinz Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general in the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1998
Place of death Kronburg