Eduard Dransfeld

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Eduard Dransfeld (born November 6, 1883 in Bestwig , † January 22, 1964 in Groß-Rohrheim ) was a German officer , most recently General of the Air Force Aviators in World War II .

Life

Promotions

Prewar years

Dransfeld occurred on 15 March 1905 as a cadet in the 2nd Nassau Infantry Regiment. 88 in Mainz , and attended by 11 July 1906 to 17 August 1907, the Military Academy Glogau . Subsequently he was promoted to lieutenant and used in his main regiment as a company officer. From February to December 1912 he trained as a pilot at the Euler works in Frankfurt am Main . After successfully completing it, he was transferred as a pilot to the 3rd Company of the Air Battalion No. 3 in Darmstadt . He had a serious accident on December 18, 1912 and spent the following 17 months in hospital and hospital. During this time he was transferred to Saarlouis on September 21, 1913 in the infantry regiment "Graf Werder" (4th Rheinisches) No. 30 . From May 1, 1914, it was usable again. On July 1, 1914, Dransfeld came to Freiburg to the 3rd Company of Flieger-Battalion No. 4. There he crashed again on July 14, 1914 and was then under medical treatment until September 25, 1914.

First World War

Dransfeld was able to work again on September 26, 1914 and was assigned to Feldflieger -teilung 29 as an observer, in which he remained until February 3, 1915. Subsequently, he served as an observer in the carrier pigeon department O and then from June 1915 to the end of March 1916 with the field pilot department 66, where he was promoted to captain on June 18, 1915. Most recently he led this department for a short time. From April to the beginning of July 1916 Dransfeld acted as leader of Kampfstaffel 5 of Kampfgeschwader 1. On July 7, 1916 he was appointed leader of Army Air Park 2. From mid-March 1918 to the end of April 1918 he was in charge of the Flieger-Depot Süd and then until December 10, 1918, commander of the physical department of the aircraft maintenance facility.

Interwar years

After the end of the war, Dransfeld was from December 11, 1918 to May 21, 1919 inspecting the aircraft maintenance facility. Then he served until August 20, 1919 as leader of the disbanding command of the air base in Braunschweig . On August 21, 1919, he was transferred to inspect the Reichswehr motor vehicle troops. From October 1919 to the end of 1920 he served in the staff of the motor vehicle department 9 and as a company commander in the motor vehicle department 7. At the beginning of 1921 Dransfeld was company commander in the 6th (Prussian) motor vehicle department in Münster , where he ended Served July 1934. This time was interrupted from October to December 1926, when Dransfeld was temporarily assigned to the motor vehicle training command of the 3rd (Prussian) motor vehicle department. On August 1, 1934, he was promoted to colonel and transferred to the staff of Group Command 2 in Kassel . On April 1, 1935, Dransfeld was appointed inspector of motor vehicles for the Air Force in the Reich Aviation Ministry . On October 1, 1936, he was promoted to major general .

Second World War

Dransfeld remained in this position beyond the beginning of the Second World War until the end of September 1941. From October 1, 1941 to the end of May 1943, he had the status of general “available”. On May 31, 1943 Dransfeld resigned from military service; it was not reactivated until the end of the war. On June 11, 1945 Dransfeld was used by the Allies in captivity taken, from which he was released on February 27 1947th

Awards

literature

  • Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935–1945, Part II, Volume 1: Abernetty – v.Gyldenfeldt , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1701-1 , pp. 213–214

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn Verlag , Berlin 1924, p. 145
personal data
SURNAME Dransfeld, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently General der Flieger in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Bestwig
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1964
Place of death Gross-Rohrheim