Eitel-Friedrich Roediger Freiherr von Manteuffel

Eitel-Friedrich Roediger Freiherr von Manteuffel , also Eitel Fritz von Manteuffel , (born September 25, 1895 in Rastatt ; † July 31, 1984 Wiesbaden ) was a major general in the Air Force .

Life

Manteuffel was the second son of the later Prussian colonel and commander of the 2nd Posen Field Artillery Regiment No. 56 , Friedrich Wilhelm Richard Rödiger von Manteuffel and his wife Wilhelmine, née Reinboldt. A baronial title for Eitel-Friedrich that is partially cited in the literature cannot be clearly proven.

First World War

Manteuffel began his military career as an officer on March 22, 1914 as a lieutenant in the 1st Baden Leib-Grenadier-Regiment No. 109 , in which his brother Maximilian Friedrich served as a lieutenant, but who was wounded at the beginning of the First World War Died September 3, 1914 in Freiburg. After his training as a flight observer, Manteuffel received his military flight training in the following year, before he was deployed as a pilot in the air force from August 1915 . In 1916 he was ordered to the General Staff of the Air Force, then to the Air Squadron of the Supreme Army Command . At that time Manteuffel was the commander of the Fokker East in Saint-Erme, under the command of the 7th Army . In 1917 he was initially a pilot, presumably in Field Aviation Department 14, before commanding it in the same year. This was followed by further front-line missions as a pilot in Flieger Ersatz -teilung 5, before he was transferred to the company of Flieger Battalion No. 3 in Darmstadt at the end of the First World War . After Manteuffel was last returned in 1919 for the first Baden Body Guard Grenadiers Regiment. 109 to Karlsruhe, he was awarded the character as a lieutenant dismissed from military service on March 31, 1920.

Second World War

In the meantime promoted to captain, he was appointed major in the Air Force in 1936 . On January 1, 1936, he joined the command forces at Schleissheim Air Base . A year later he was already in command of the pilot school at the Ludwigslust-Techentin Air Base before returning to the Schleissheim Air Base on May 5, 1939 as commander. On October 1, 1939, the lieutenant colonel became the first commodore of Jagdgeschwader 77 in Breslau , which he was not only supposed to lead until the end of 1940, but in which he also flew a Messerschmitt Bf 109 as a pilot . On September 1, 1940, he was promoted to colonel . In the same year he commanded the Stolp-Reitz Fighter Pilot School (Fighter Pilot School 3). From October 1941, the former Jagdfliegerführer Mitte (formerly Jagdfliegerführer 1), Manteuffel, who had led the fighter forces over Germany until then, became a contact in the Air Force's liaison command to the Royal Hungarian Air Force . Shortly before the end of the Second World War , he was appointed as Major General Plenipotentiary for Special Operations of the Air Force in Romania and Commander of the Air Force Task Force for Romania.

Manteuffel was taken prisoner by the Soviets on August 28, 1944 , from which he was released on January 3, 1950.

literature

• League of World War I Aviation Historians. Over the front. Volume 10. 1995.
• Georg Schmidt : The von Manteuffel family. Polzin and Arnhausen tribe of the Pomeranian family. Berlin 1915.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Franz von Unruh, Leander Hotaki: Autobiographical writings. 2007, p. 344. ( online )
2. ^ Rudolf von Freydorf: The 1st Badische Leib-Grenadier-Regiment No. 109 in the World War 1914-1918. Comradeship of the Badische Leibgrenadiers, 1927, p. 26. ( online )
3. ↑ Early German Aces of World War I. 2006, p. 51. ( online )
4. ↑ Kurt Braatz: God or a plane: life and death of the fighter pilot Günther Lützow. 2008, p. 208. ( online )