Günther Schack

Günther Schack (born November 12, 1917 in Bartenstein ; † June 14, 2003 in Schmidt ) was a fighter pilot in the German Air Force during World War II . He spent the last three decades of his life withdrawn in the Eifel and devoted himself - also as an author - to philosophical issues.

Life

He was the son of Willy Schack and his wife Dorothea, née Nietzki. Schack studied at the technical universities in Stuttgart and Aachen . After he had been rejected as unfit for military service in 1937 because of a sports accident he had suffered in his youth, after reporting again as a volunteer he succeeded in being accepted into the Air Force on September 2, 1939. After training as a fighter pilot, he was transferred to the 7th Squadron of Jagdgeschwader 51 on March 18, 1941 as a private and pilot . His first victory in aerial combat was on July 23, 1941 on the Eastern Front . Meanwhile, he was the sergeant been promoted. After his 48th victory in the air, he was ordered back to Germany as a flight instructor and was promoted to lieutenant on January 1, 1943 . In mid-1943 he returned to the Eastern Front and now served in the 9th squadron of Jagdgeschwader 51. On September 3, 1943, he was able to record his 100th aerial victory and on December 8, 1943, he became a squadron captain of the 9th squadron. On July 1, 1944, Schack was promoted to captain . In December 1944 he was promoted to commander of Group I and, after its dissolution, from May 1, 1945, became the commander of Group IV of Jagdgeschwader 3 . By the end of the war, he had won a total of 174 aerial victories in 780 combat missions on the Eastern Front and had been shot down fifteen times.

In 1968 Schack resigned from his position as sales manager in his uncle's industrial company, left his wife and three children and lived in a weekend house near Nideggen in the Eifel. As a vegetarian, he was largely self-sufficient from his own cultivation. During this time he tried to process his war trauma and, as a philosopher and author, to develop and propagate his own philosophy of life: "homocracy".

Awards

Iron Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st class
Trophy of honor for special achievement in the aerial warfare on January 16, 1943
German cross in gold on February 26, 1943
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with oak leaves
- Knight's Cross on October 29, 1943
- Oak leaves on April 20, 1944 (460th award)

Works

Pray for the Jews, pray for the Christians. 1995, ISBN 3-9800329-3-0 .
Homocracy in the world. 1975.
Homocracy in the sphere of life. 1975.
Homocracy among the people. 1975.

Web links

Literature by and about Günther Schack in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939–1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 653.
↑ Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer: The German Cross 1941-1945. History and owner. Volume II. Publishing house Klaus D. Patzwall. Norderstedt 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X . P. 397.

personal data
SURNAME	Schack, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pilot in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH	November 12, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bartenstein
DATE OF DEATH	June 14, 2003
Place of death	Schmidt

[Scherzer-1] Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939–1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 653.

[2] Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer: The German Cross 1941-1945. History and owner. Volume II. Publishing house Klaus D. Patzwall. Norderstedt 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X . P. 397.