Hans Behrendt (officer)

Hans Behrendt (born July 28, 1892 in Breslau , † July 24, 1959 in Schulenburg ) was an officer and pilot in the Wehrmacht Air Force .

Life

Behrendt served in the air force of the German Empire in the First World War . Then he was taken over into the Reichswehr , where he was promoted to captain on October 1, 1933 .

On October 1, 1934, he moved to the newly created Air Force as a major and went to the Reich Ministry of Aviation as a consultant . Then, on June 1, 1935, he exercised the function of a teacher for aerial tactics in the Tutow Fliegergruppe, where on October 1, 1936, he achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel . On March 1, 1937 he took over the leadership of the III. Group of Kampfgeschwader 355, later Kampfgeschwader 53, and was also the commandant of Giebelstadt Air Base . In 1938 he became a squadron commodore of Kampfgeschwader 157, and from April 30, 1939 renamed Kampfgeschwader 27 . He led this squadron, equipped with the twin-engine Heinkel He 111 fighter aircraft , during the German invasion of Poland and in the western campaign . On June 22, 1940, he left the squadron and took over the management of Luftkriegsschule 3 in Werder with subordinate air base . On November 11, 1940, he switched to the same function at the Große Kampfflliegerschule 2 (KFS 2) in Hörsching , where he was promoted to major general on November 1, 1941 . On August 11, 1942, the name was changed to Combat Observer School 2. On September 12, he took over the role of stage manager of the Air Force personnel . After his promotion to Lieutenant General on October 1, 1943, he remained in the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (OKL) and on April 16, 1944 became General for Personnel Deployment in the Air Force and at the same time Chief of the Office / OKL Wehramt . On April 20, 1945 he was released from all offices and transferred to the Führerreserve . On May 8, 1945, at the end of the war, he was taken prisoner by the United States, from which he was released on March 15, 1949.

Web links

• Henry L. deZeng IV, Douglas G. Stankey: Air Force Officer Career Summaries, Sections A – F. (PDF) 2017, p. 239 , accessed on April 14, 2018 (English).