Erich Karlewski

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Erich Karlewski (born September 20, 1874 in Klötzen , † December 24, 1946 in special camp No. 1 Mühlberg ) was a German officer , most recently General of the Air Force Aviators in World War II .

Life

Promotions

Karlewski joined the foot artillery regiment “von Dieskau” (Silesian) No. 6 on April 1, 1893 as a flag squire , where he remained until the end of September 1906. During this time he also acted as a company officer and attended the United Artillery and Engineering School in Berlin from October 1, 1897 to July 1898 . On October 1, 1906, he moved to the Rhenish Foot Artillery Regiment No. 8 , where he was again used as a company officer. On April 21, 1911 he rose within the regiment to company commander . Karlewski held the same function from February 17 to August 1, 1914 in the teaching regiment of the Jüterbog foot artillery school .

After the outbreak of the First World War , he moved to August 2, 1914 as battery chief in the Guards foot artillery regiment . There he was promoted to battalion commander on September 7, 1915 and held this post until January 14, 1917. Subsequently, Karlewski was transferred to the staff of General of the Foot Artillery No. 8 at Army High Command 6 . He stayed there until May 1918 and then served during the last months of the war as commander of the foot artillery regiment "von Linger" (East Prussian) No. 1 . For his achievements during the war, Karlewski was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross and the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords and the Wound Badge in black.

On December 18, 1918, Karlewski switched again to the teaching regiment of the Jüterbog foot artillery school, where he was used until the end of September 1919. Taken over by the Reichswehr , Karlewski transferred to Artillery Regiment 3 on October 1, 1919 . There he was department commander until the end of September 1920 and then until July 4, 1921 in the staff of III. Department used. From there, Karlewski switched to the Jüterbog Artillery School on July 5, 1921, where he worked as a teacher until the end of January 1925. On February 1, 1926, he was promoted to head of Department 4 in the Heereswaffenamt in Berlin; a position he held until the end of March 1929.

With the rank of colonel , Karlewski was appointed commander of the 3rd Artillery Regiment on April 1, 1929 , but his post he had to give up again at the end of September 1929, since he was appointed head of testing in the Army Weapons Office on October 1, 1929. On September 30, 1932, Karlewski resigned from the Reichswehr, conferring the character of Lieutenant General , and then served as a civilian military advisor in China from December 1, 1932 to December 24, 1934 .

On October 1, 1934, Karlewski was reactivated for the Luftwaffe under construction and until the end of September 1935 was an officer for special use in the Reich Aviation Ministry without a fixed assignment of duties. On October 1, 1935, he was appointed commander of the Air Technology Academy in Berlin-Gatow . He then held this position until the end of March 1938. On March 31, 1938 he retired from military service and was promoted to General der Flieger . It was no longer used until the end of the war.

In June 1945 Karlewski, now at the age of 71, was arrested by the Soviet occupying forces and later interned in special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg . He died there in December 1946.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935-1945. Volume 2: Habermehl – ​​Nuber. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1991, ISBN 3-7648-1701-1 , pp. 151-152.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Initiative group Lager Mühlberg e. V. (Ed.): Book of the Dead. Special camp No. 1 of the Soviet NKVD, Mühlberg / Elbe. Mühlberg / Elbe 2008, ISBN 9783000269998 . P. 104.
  2. ↑ Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1930, p. 110.
personal data
SURNAME Karlewski, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently General der Flieger
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Blocks
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1946
Place of death Special camp No. 1 Mühlberg