Gustav Rödel

Gustav Rödel's Bf 109 G-2 as a replica in the Air Force Museum in Berlin

Gustav-Siegfried Rödel (born October 24, 1915 in Merseburg ; † February 6, 1995 ) was a German officer, most recently a brigadier general in the Bundeswehr .

Life

He was also a highly decorated fighter pilot in the German Air Force in World War II . He flew in Spain until spring 1939 and before that he had achieved great success with the Condor Legion . At the end of December 1941, with the rank of first lieutenant , he took over provisional leadership of Group II of Jagdgeschwader 27 , and from May 1942 he assumed full responsibility with his promotion to captain . At the end of December 1943, Franz Stigler and Charles Brown met within the squadron . From the end of April 1943 to December 1944 he was the successor of Eduard Neumann's squadron commanders of the Jagdgeschwader 27. He then led the 2nd Jagd-Division from February 1945 until the end of the war. He achieved the rank of colonel and was able to record 98 victories in almost 1,000 enemy flights .

In the Bundeswehr he was in command of Allied Air Defense Sector 2 in Uedem from the beginning of October 1968 to September 1971 . He then went into retirement .

In 1986, the former squadron comrades of Hans-Joachim Marseille around Gustav Rödel and Eduard Neumann discovered the so-called Marseille pyramid at the crash site in Marseille in Egypt . Later the comrades arranged for a reconstruction and a solemn inauguration.

Awards

Iron Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st class
Spain Cross
German cross in gold on July 16, 1942
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on June 22, 1941
- Eichenlaub (255th) on June 20, 1943 (as major )

Individual evidence

↑ Reinhard Teuber: The Bundeswehr 1955-1995 . Militair-Verlag KD Patzwall, 1996, p. 117 ( google.de [accessed on March 22, 2020]).
↑ Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer : Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941–1945 , Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, p. 381.
↑ Walther-Peer Fellgiebel : The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945 - The holder of the highest award of the Second World War of all parts of the Wehrmacht . Dörfler Verlag, Eggolsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 , p. 361, 501 .
↑ Veit Scherzer : The 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 , pp. 634 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rödel, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rödel, Gustav-Siegfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer, most recently Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH	October 24, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH	February 6, 1995

[1] Reinhard Teuber: The Bundeswehr 1955-1995 . Militair-Verlag KD Patzwall, 1996, p. 117 ( google.de [accessed on March 22, 2020]).

[2] Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer : Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941–1945 , Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, p. 381.

[3] Walther-Peer Fellgiebel : The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945 - The holder of the highest award of the Second World War of all parts of the Wehrmacht . Dörfler Verlag, Eggolsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 , p. 361, 501 .

[4] Veit Scherzer : The 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 , pp. 634 .