Heinrich Seywald

Heinrich Seywald (born December 23, 1894 in Regensburg , † September 15, 1973 ibid) was a German major general in the Air Force during World War II .

Life

Seywald joined the imperial army on August 10, 1914 and served in the First World War first in the infantry and later in the air force . At the end of the war he was a lieutenant and on April 25, 1919 went to the Aviation Department A2 of the Freikorps Epp .

From July 9, 1919, he caught up with his officer training and was then accepted into the Reichswehr , where he served in the 7th Division's motor vehicle department . On October 1, 1923 he was promoted to lieutenant and on April 1, 1928 to captain . From November 1, 1928, he began training as a pilot in the secret flying school of the Reichswehr on the Soviet Lipetsk airfield, which lasted until March 31, 1930.

From June 1, 1933 he served as captain in the newly created Reich Aviation Ministry and was promoted to major on September 1, 1934 . This was followed by a use in the Tutow Air Force from September 23, 1935 and in the Berlin Air Command from November 10. On March 12, 1936 he took over the III. Group of Kampfgeschwader 152 as a group commander while at the same time exercising the position of air base commander of the Barth air base . After he was promoted to colonel on October 1, 1936 , he took over the post of commander of the C8 pilot school (FFS C8) in Fürth on the Fürth air base from April 1, 1938 . On August 1, he moved to Flieger-Ersatz -teilung 13 in Nuremberg before he took over the Kampfgeschwader 153 as a squad commodore on February 1, 1939 . His squadron, renamed as Kampfgeschwader 77 on April 1, 1939 , was also in command of the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. Equipped with the twin-engine Dornier Do 17 bomber, it was subordinate to the 2nd Fliegerdivision of Luftflotte 4 in the south of the Front. After he was replaced on September 13, 1939, he took over the management of the large fighter school 4 at the Thorn air base, which was under construction on October 15 . Here he was promoted to major general on November 1, 1941, before he switched back to the Reich Aviation Ministry on June 16, 1942 and held the position of inspector for pilot training (RLM / L In. 9). On March 8, 1943, he became the commander of the Luftwaffe's weapons technology schools before he switched to the Reich Air Force on September 16, 1944 as General zb V. At the end of 1944 he took over the air force interception staff in Slovakia and in 1945 further air force staff of the ground organization. The last one he took over in April 1945 was the role of a higher commander of the Wehrmacht orderly troops in the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , where he was taken prisoner by the US on May 8, 1945. He was released from this in 1945.

Web links

• Henry L. deZeng IV, Douglas G. Stankey: Air Force Officer Career Summaries, Section S – Z. (PDF) 2016, pp. 284–285 , accessed on May 22, 2017 (English).