Carl Fink (Major General)

Carl Fink (born December 16, 1886 in Berlin , † April 4, 1969 in Karlsruhe ) was a German major general in the Air Force during World War II .

Military career

First World War

Fink came on 23 February 1907 as a cadet in the Fusilier Regiment "Prince Henry of Prussia" (Brandenburg) no. 35 of the Prussian Army and served there until the end of September 1909, most recently as a company officer. Then he was company commander in the 5th Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 165 until the beginning of July 1913 . From May 29, 1911 to January 23, 1914, he was a photography teacher at the Training and Research Institute for Military Aviation at the Döberitz military training area , where he was also assigned to Airman Battalion 1 from July 1913 to August 2, 1914. From January to August 1914 he was a teacher at the traffic engineering examination committee of the pilot test company in Adlershof . With the beginning of the First World War , Fink came in August 1914 as an observer to Feldflieger -teilung 7, then in the same position in the carrier pigeon department O in Kampfgeschwader 1 (Kogohl 1). On July 19, 1915, he was transferred as a photo officer to the OHL's war surveying and field flight chief . From October 8, 1916, after the end of the war, he was head of the aerial photography department at the staff of the Commanding General of the Air Force ( Kogenluft ). For his work, Fink was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross and the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords.

After the end of the war, Fink was from January 16, 1919 to March 31, 1920 in command of the Border Guard (East) Aviation Department 407 and then retired from military service as captain .

Wehrmacht and World War II

On February 1, 1935, Fink joined the Luftwaffe, which was in the process of being established, where he served from the beginning of the Second World War until December 15, 1939 as a consultant in the technical office of the Reich Aviation Ministry and was promoted to colonel on December 1, 1939 . On December 16, 1939 he became head of the "Air Force" department at Armaments Inspectorate III of the Reich Ministry for Armaments and Ammunition . He was then from June 9, 1941 to January 31, 1942 military economy commander in Opole , later in Charkow . In February 1942 he was ordered back to Germany, where he was commander of the Hanover armaments division at Armaments Inspectorate XI until the end of February 1943 . From March 1943 to the beginning of May 1945 he was an armaments inspector for the Magdeburg - Dessau - Halle area . In this position Fink was promoted to major general on June 1, 1943. In the last days of the war, Fink was made available "for use" by the Wenck Army . On May 8, 1945, he was taken prisoner by the United States and later British , from which he was released on December 1, 1946.

literature

• Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl Friedrich Hildebrandt: The Generals of the Air Force 1935-1945. The military careers of the aviator, anti-aircraft cartillery, paratrooper, air intelligence and engineer officers, including doctors, judges, intendants and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 2: Habermehl – ​​Nuber. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1991, ISBN 376481701-1 , p. 282 f.