General of the fighter pilot

General der Kampfflieger (L In 2) was an agency within the German Air Force .

History of the agency

The office emerged in 1941 from the inspection of combat and dive fighter pilots (so called from late 1939 / early 1940). The inspection of combat and dive fighter planes was first subordinated to General E.g. V. at the Inspector General of the Air Force, in April 1940 the subordination changed to the head of training. From autumn 1941, the office was then subordinate to the Chief of the General Staff of the Air Force .

The forerunner of the agency was formed in 1934 as the Inspection of the Fighters (Fl In 2) and renamed the Inspection of the Fighters (L In 2) in 1937 . At the beginning of 1939 another name change took place in the inspection of combat, dive and reconnaissance pilots (L In 2). These inspections were initially subordinate to the Inspector General of the Luftwaffe and from February 1939, as later again from April 1940, to the head of training.

The agency consisted of around 145 posts, including two general staff officers , 28 officers and 2 engineers. At the beginning of March 1945 the strength consisted of only 81 people, including 22 officers. The general of the fighter pilots existed as an office until the end of the war.

Officers in this department

Inspector of fighter pilots / inspection of combat, dive and reconnaissance pilots:

Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel / Major General Curt Pflugbeil : October 1935 to August 1939

Fighter and dive fighter inspector :

Colonel Paul Schultheiss : January to October 1940

Inspector of combat and dive fighter pilots / General of combat pilots:

Major General Johannes Fink : October 1940 to October 1942

Fighter General:

Colonel Dietrich Peltz : January to September 1943
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Joachim Helbig : mdWdGb , March to August 1943
unoccupied : August 1943 to February 1944
Colonel Walter Marienfeld: February to October 1944
Colonel / Major General Walter Storp : October 1944 to January 1945
Lieutenant Colonel Werner Baumbach : m. d. W. d. G. b., November 1944 to January 1945
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Hans-Henning von Beust : m. d. W. d. G. b., February 1945 until the end of the war

Famous pepole

Hanns Horst Heise : stage manager from June 1944 to August 1944
Walter Sigel : on the staff from April 1943 to February 1944

Individual evidence

↑ Horst Boog : The German Air Force Command 1935–1945: Leadership Problems, Top Structure, General Staff Training . German Verlag -Anst., 1982, ISBN 978-3-421-01905-9 , pp. 255 ( google.de [accessed June 25, 2020]).
↑ Horst Boog: The German Air Force Command, 1933-1945: Management Problems, Top Structure, General Staff Training . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1982, ISBN 978-3-421-01905-9 , pp. 569 ( google.de [accessed June 26, 2020]).
↑ Horst Boog: The German Air Force Command 1935–1945: Leadership Problems, Top Structure, General Staff Training . German Verlag -Anst., 1982, ISBN 978-3-421-01905-9 , pp. 617 ( google.de [accessed June 25, 2020]).

[1] Horst Boog : The German Air Force Command 1935–1945: Leadership Problems, Top Structure, General Staff Training . German Verlag -Anst., 1982, ISBN 978-3-421-01905-9 , pp. 255 ( google.de [accessed June 25, 2020]).

[2] Horst Boog: The German Air Force Command, 1933-1945: Management Problems, Top Structure, General Staff Training . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1982, ISBN 978-3-421-01905-9 , pp. 569 ( google.de [accessed June 26, 2020]).

[3] Horst Boog: The German Air Force Command 1935–1945: Leadership Problems, Top Structure, General Staff Training . German Verlag -Anst., 1982, ISBN 978-3-421-01905-9 , pp. 617 ( google.de [accessed June 25, 2020]).