Ernst Kredel jun.

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Ernst Kredel jun. (Born January 11, 1893 in Schmersau ; † 1985 ) was a German officer and writer .

Life

Kredel came after graduation in 1914 at the High School Salzwedel first as a cadet in the Infantry Regiment 67 (Metz) that came in 1917 as a lieutenant for the Air Force (only as observers, and later as a pilot ) and fought until 1920 as a first lieutenant and squadron leader in the plane Kampfgeschwader Sachsenberg in Baltics against the Red Army.

He studied economics, history and philosophy in Königsberg and obtained his doctorate in Berlin. phil.

In 1924 he started at Junkers AG in Dessau. After the company merged with Deutsche Aero Lloyd AG to form Deutsche Lufthansa, Kredel worked as its first press department manager. In 1929 he took over the administration of Deutsche Verkehrsflug AG in Fürth.

During the Second World War he worked as a lieutenant colonel in staff positions.

Kredel wrote publications on aviation history, essays on aviation and defense policy and interviews about personalities in aviation.

Fonts (selection)

  • German commercial aviation. What it is - and what it can be to us! . Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, Hanover 1929
  • Deutsche Verkehrsflug Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg-Fürth. (Series: Musterbetriebe Deutscher Wirtschaft. , Volume 29: Der deutsche Luftverkehr) Organization Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1931
  • German air traffic. - In: Aviation is necessary! , ed. by Ernst Jünger under the protectorate of the German Aviation Association e. V., Vaterländischer Buchvertrieb Thankmar Rudolph, Leipzig, 2nd edition 1933
  • Bremen Airport. A Hanseatic contribution to aviation history . Bargmann, Bremen undated (approx. 1958)

literature

  • CEK: With aviation on you and you . (Appreciation for the 70th birthday; originally published in Pennäler-Nachrichten of the alumni of the Jahn-Gymnasium zu Salzwedel in Altmark No. 5 from 1963, reprinted in Festschrift 250 Jahre Gymnasium (large school) in Salzwedel 1744-1994. Contributions by former teachers and students on the 250-year history of the school , Salzwedel 1994, pp. 152–153)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Wiehle : Altmark personalities. Biographical lexicon of the Altmark, the Elbe-Havel-Land and the Jerichower Land (= contributions to the cultural history of the Altmark and its peripheral areas. Vol. 5). Dr. ziethen verlag, Oschersleben 1999, ISBN 3-932090-61-6 , p. 93.
personal data
SURNAME Kredel, Ernst jun.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kredel, Ernst junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmersau
DATE OF DEATH 1985