Finn Lambrechts
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Finn Lambrechts (born June 16, 1900 in Kristiania ; † December 8, 1956 in Paris ) was a Norwegian lieutenant general in the air force (Luftforsvaret) , who was last chief of the defense staff (Sjef for Forsvarsstaben) from 1955 to 1956 .
Life
After attending school, Lambrechts completed an officer training course in the Navy (Kongelige Norske Marine) and became a naval officer after graduation in 1921 . In 1924 he began his aviation training at the Naval Aviation School (Marinens flyskole) and after graduating in 1925 he was a naval pilot. In 1928 he took part in the search for the lost polar explorers Roald Amundsen and Umberto Nobile . He was then head of the Kristiansand naval air base between 1928 and 1931 . In 1933 he made a flight from Horten to Svalbard with the Norwegian-made maritime reconnaissance aircraft Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.11 (Høver MF.11) . He was then chief pilot of the national airline DNL ( Det Norske Luftfartselskap ) between 1935 and 1939 .
After the attack of the German Wehrmacht in Norway on 9 April 1940 flew Lambrechts over Sweden to Britain , where he head of with maritime patrol and submarine hunting aircraft type Lockheed P-3 and Type Consolidated PBY "Catalina" equipped and the air base RAF Woodhaven and RAF Leuchars in Scotland stationed No. 333 Squadron RAF was. This unit was under the commanders of the Air Force Coastal Command ( RAF Coastal Command ) , Air Marshal Philip Joubert de la Ferté or later Air Marshal John Slessor . In the following years he flew together with his unit, which included Hans Rønningen , Nordahl Grieg , Ole Snefjellå , Eivind Viken , Håkon Offerdal and Knut Skavhaugen , air missions to Norway, which he not only carried out with the commanders of the RAF Coastal Command, but also with experienced Air Force officers such as Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen and Finn Lützow-Holm . In February 1945 he was promoted to frigate captain (Kommandørkaptein) and was military attaché at the embassy in Great Britain.
After the end of World War II and his return to Norway, Lambrechts was promoted to colonel in 1946 and was chief of the Vestlandet Air Command between 1946 and 1951 . On December 1, 1951, he was promoted to Lieutenant General (Generalløytnant) , whereupon he succeeded Major General Bjarne Øen until he was replaced by Lieutenant General Birger Fredrik Motzfeldt in 1955 as Commander in Chief of the Air Force (sjef for Luftforsvaret) . Most recently, on November 1, 1955, he succeeded Lieutenant General Ole Berg as Chief of Defense Staff (Sjef for Forsvarsstaben) . At the beginning of December 1956 he was at a NATO conference in Paris, where he died on December 8, 1956 as a result of a heart attack . On January 10, 1957, Lieutenant General Bjarne Øen was the new chief of the defense staff. For his services he was, among other things , Star Commander of the Order of Saint Olav .
publication
- Lærebok i luftnavigasjon , 1935
Web links
Otto Ruge (1940) • Carl Gustav Fleischer (1940–1942, de facto ) • Wilhelm von Tangen Hansteen (1942–1944) • Olaf V. (1944–1945) • Otto Ruge (1945) • Elias Corneliussen (1946) • Halvor Hansson (1946) • Ole Berg (1946–1955) • Finn Lambrechts (1955–1956) • Bjarne Øen (1957–1963) • Folke Hauger Johannessen (1964–1972) • Herman Fredrik Zeiner-Gundersen (1972–1977) • Sverre B. Hamre (1977–1982) • Sven Hauge (1982–1984) • Fredrik Bull-Hansen (1984–1987) • Vigleik Eide (1987–1989) • Torolf Rein (1989–1994) • Arne Solli (1994–1999) • Sigurd Frisvold (1999–2005) • Sverre haben ( 2005–2009) • Harald Sunde (2009–2013) • Haakon Bruun-Hanssen (2013–2020) • Eirik Johan Kristoffersen (since 2020)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lambrechts, Finn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian Lieutenant General |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kristiania |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1956 |
| Place of death | Paris |