Eugen Wullen

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Eugen Wullen (born February 6, 1892 in Gerstetten , † January 15, 1967 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was an officer , last doctor general of the German Air Force in World War II .

Life

Promotions

Early years and World War I

From 1911 to August 2, 1914, Wullen studied medicine at the University of Tübingen and at the University of Munich , which was interrupted by the First World War. As a war volunteer , he joined the 2nd Württemberg Landwehr Field Artillery Regiment on August 3, 1914 . From September 26, 1914 to April 17, 1917 he served there as a gun leader and battery officer. From November 22nd to December 9th, 1914 he was in the hospital . On April 18, 1917 he was posted to the staff of his regiment, where he was appointed orderly officer on June 13, 1917 . He held this position until December 6, 1918. During this time, Wullen had been in command for a few days from June 2, 1918 to June 8, 1918 to the A 215 aviation department and from December 7, 1918 to December 24, 1918 to the 3rd Württemberg Field Artillery Regiment No. 49 .

Interwar period

On December 24, 1918, Wullen resigned from active military service as a lieutenant in the reserve and resumed his medical studies the following day in Munich, and later again in Tübingen. He completed his medical internship from May 1, 1920 to February 1, 1921 in the city hospital of Bad Cannstatt , where he was most recently an assistant doctor . Here he received his doctoral degree Dr. med. awarded. He then worked from February 16, 1921 to the end of March 1937 as a general practitioner in Horrheim (Vaihingen / Enz district) and Eßlingen am Neckar . In 1924 he ran for the Völkisch Social Block .

During this time, Wullen first came into contact with the Wehrmacht , where he was temporarily employed as an assistant doctor at the military district command in Ludwigsburg from mid-July 1935 to August 11, 1935 . It was here that he joined the Army Reserve on January 1, 1937. Also in January 1937 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Horrheim. This was withdrawn again in March 1946, but later reassigned.

From April 1, 1937 to the end of July 1937, Wullen was a contract doctor at Luftgau -Kommando 15 in Stuttgart , and then from August 1, 1937 to the end of June 1938, he served as an E-Officer (supplementary officer ) in the Luftwaffe in the role of Luftgau doctor. On July 1, 1938 he was transferred to Munich, where he worked for the Luftgau Command VII until April 11, 1939.

Second World War

In the course of the general mobilization, Wullen was transferred to Berlin the following day , where he was a personnel officer at the Air Force Medical Inspection in the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) until May 24, 1940 . After the occupation of Holland by German troops, he was appointed Luftgau doctor Holland on May 25, 1940, where he was also the commander of the Luftgau medical department in Holland . Wullen held this position until the end of September 1941. Subsequently, he returned to the RLM in Berlin, where he initially held the position of Luftgau doctor III until January 2, 1944 and later acted as chief of the air force medical inspection staff. In 1942 he was promoted to senior physician . On January 3, 1944, he was posted to the Southeast Air Force Command under General Stefan Fröhlich , where he was deployed as the chief medical officer until the end of October 1944 . On November 1, 1944, Wullen became the chief medical officer of the German Air Force in Italy, whose function he held until the end of the war. In April 1945 he was taken prisoner by the United States, where he was from May 16, 1945 to August 1945 as the chief doctor of the Paratrooper War Hospital 21 in Merano .

post war period

From September 1, 1948 until his retirement at the end of December 1959, Wullen worked as a general practitioner in Esslingen am Neckar . In March 1958 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Horrheim again.

literature

  • Karl Friedrich Hildebrandt: Die Generale der Luftwaffe 1935-1945 , Volume 2, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-2207-4 , pp. 551f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Vaihinger heads: biographical portraits from five centuries . City of Vaihingen, 1993, p. 18 ( google.de [accessed on January 25, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Manfred Scheck: "It never fights badly for freedom and justice": 110 years of the labor movement in Vaihingen an der Enz . SPD local association, 1986, p. 65 ( google.de [accessed January 25, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Munich medical weekly . 1942, p. 552 ( google.de [accessed on January 25, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Wullen, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, last doctor general in the Air Force in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerstetten
DATE OF DEATH 15th January 1967
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar