Fritz Loeb

Fritz Löb grave

Fritz Löb (born September 14, 1895 in Berlin , † June 22, 1940 in Evere ) was a German major general in the Air Force of the Wehrmacht .

He joined the army in 1913 and took part in the First World War as a pioneer. On April 1, 1934, he moved to the Air Force with the rank of major and on May 1, 1934 was appointed head of the procurement department in the technical office of the Reich Aviation Ministry . After he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on July 1, 1935 , on April 1, 1936, he took over the II. Group of Kampfgeschwader 155 (later Kampfgeschwader 76 ) as group commander and was also the commandant of the Ansbach air base. But on May 1, 1936, he took on new tasks in the Reich Ministry of Aviation. On December 1, 1936 as Colonel head of the office for raw materials and foreign exchange materials in the four-year plan and on April 1, 1937 head of the office for German raw and materials in the four-year plan. On February 1, 1938, as major general, he became head of Main Department I in the Reich Aviation Ministry and on February 1, 1939, he became head of the Air Force Administration Office in the Reich Aviation Ministry. From May 30, 1940 he was commanding general and commander in Luftgau Belgium / Northern France.

Löb last lived in Berlin-Schmargendorf and was married to Hertha von Witzleben (1896–1971) from the Thuringian noble family Witzleben since 1920 . He was killed in a Junkers Ju 52 of Lufthansa in an aircraft collision during approach to the airport Evere ( Haren ) in Brussels . Löb was buried in the Dahlem Forest Cemetery in Berlin (Department 22 B, No. 60/61).

literature

• Gothaisches Adeliges Taschenbuch Gotha 1940, p. 693

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Henry L. deZeng IV, Douglas G. Stankey: Air Force Officer Career Summaries, Section L – R. (PDF) (No longer available online.) 2016, pp. 82–83 , archived from the original on October 10, 2016 ; accessed on May 5, 2020 (English).