Erich Quade

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Göttingen city cemetery: grave of General Erich Quade

Erich Quade (born May 12, 1883 in Görken , Mohrungen district , † September 8, 1959 in Göttingen ) was a German officer , most recently General of the Air Force Aviators in World War II .

Life

Promotions

Early years and World War I

Quade joined the grenadier regiment "King Friedrich I." (4th East Prussian) No. 5 on September 19, 1903 as a flag junior , which he left again in January 1905. His further deployment took place until July 1912 in the 2nd Warmian Infantry Regiment No. 151 , where he served as a company officer and a battalion adjutant. He then served from July 1912 to the end of September 1913 in the 5th Grand Ducal Hessian Infantry Regiment No. 168 , before he was promoted to adjutant at the district command in Friedberg on October 1, 1913 . Quade stayed there until August 1914. In the course of the general mobilization, he was appointed battalion adjutant in the Royal Bavarian 16th Reserve Infantry Regiment on August 10, 1914 , in whose ranks Adolf Hitler also served. During the Battle of Ypres , Quade was wounded on August 28, 1914 and was in a hospital until the end of January 1915. Ready for use in the field again, he returned as a battalion adjutant to the 168 Infantry Regiment , with which he was in action until the end of March 1915.

On April 1, 1915, Quaden switched to the air force , where he was initially employed as an adjutant at Darmstadt Air Base until June 1915 . In July 1915 he then served in the army aviation park of the bow army on the eastern front . From August 1915 to April 1916, Quade served as a pilot in Feldfliegerabteilung 66 , Feldfliegerabteilung Heyder and most recently from December 1915 on Feldfliegerabteilung 54 , where he got out in April 1916 to become the leader of this pilot department. In October 1917 he gave up this post and was then leader of Aviation Department 260 (artillery) until April 1918 . During the last months of the war, Quade acted until December 1918 as head of the Fliegerbeobachterschule (FBS) in Thorn .

Interwar period

In December 1918, Quade transferred to the East Border Guard as leader of Troop Aviation Squadron 9 . From April 1920 to January 1925 he then acted as a teacher for air tactics at the infantry school in Munich . In February 1925 he became company commander in the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr , whose post he held until September 1926. He then served from October 1926 to the end of September 1927 with the staff of Group Command 2, from where he was assigned to a secret pilot training course in Lipetsk in the Soviet Union in October 1927 . For this he was dismissed from military service in order to keep up appearances. After his return to Germany in May 1929, he was reactivated for the army and served in the staff of the 2nd Battalion of Infantry Regiment 2 , where he was promoted to battalion commander on August 1, 1929. On March 31, 1933, Quade resigned from his military service in this capacity and went into what appeared to be retirement.

A few days after his retirement from military service, Quade was reactivated on April 18, 1933 as a supplementary officer ( E-officer ) for the army . Here he was deployed to the staff of Infantry Leader I around Major General Günther von Niebelschütz until the end of December 1933 . However, from December 14, 1933, Quade accompanied the role of supplementary officer in the Air Force , in which he was then used as an officer for special use in the Reich Ministry of Aviation until November 24, 1934 . On November 25, 1934, Quade was appointed tactics teacher at the Air War Academy in Berlin-Gatow . He held this position until the end of January 1938. Then Quade rose on February 1, 1938 to the command of the Higher Air Force School in Berlin. He held this command until the end of March 1939. On March 31, 1939, he was released from active military service.

Second World War

With the beginning of the Second World War on September 1, 1939, Quade was reactivated for military service in the service of the Air Force. On that day he was appointed higher pilot training commander III, whose post he filled until December 31, 1941. During his service there, Quade had been promoted to General of the Airmen on September 1, 1940 . At the beginning of 1942 he transferred to the Air Force High Command , where he was the Air Force broadcaster in the Wehrmacht Propaganda Department until the end of October 1944 . Quade finally retired on October 31, 1944. No further use of his person took place until the end of the war.

After the end of the war, Quade was arrested by the Soviet occupying forces in Berlin on July 25, 1945, brought before a military tribunal in the Soviet Union and sentenced to death; however, the sentence was later commuted to a 25-year prison term. In October 1953 Quade was released early from prison and returned to the Federal Republic . He lived secluded in Göttingen for the years up to his death .

Awards

literature

  • Erich Quade , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 10/1954 from March 1, 1954, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935-1945 Part II, Volume 3: Odebrecht-Zoch , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-2207-4 , p. 72 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Quade , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 10/1954 of March 1, 1954, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
personal data
SURNAME Quade, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently General der Flieger in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Görken , district of Mohrungen
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1959
Place of death Goettingen