Helmut Schwarz (General)

Helmut Schwarz (born October 25, 1919 in Karolinenthal , Posen ; † February 12, 2018 ) was a German officer ( retired Brigadier General ) and pilot.

After the aging test 1939 he was to Reichsarbeitsdienst used (RAD) and in the connection as Fahnenjunker at the Air Force of the Armed Forces retracted. In 1941 he was promoted to lieutenant , and in 1942 he became a squadron captain of a transport squadron . At the end of the Second World War, Schwarz was first lieutenant . After 1945 he first completed an apprenticeship in agriculture and worked in administration, where he passed the second administrative examination.

In 1956 he joined the newly founded Bundeswehr as a captain . He was initially a personnel officer and later received pilot training for transport pilots. In this context he was u. a. Used as an operations officer, squadron chief and group commander as well as in the staff service of the transport aviation. As a colonel , Schwarz was commodore of Lufttransportgeschwader 61 in Penzing near Landsberg am Lech from 1970 to 1973 . Subsequently he was Brigadier General from 1973 to 1975 system officer MRCA / Tornado in the command staff of the Air Force (Fü L) in Bonn and from 1975 to 1980 commander of the Allied Air Defense Sector 2 in Uedem . He then retired.

He was married and had one child.

literature

• Manfred Sadlowski (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the defense industry . 2nd edition, Wehr & Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft, Koblenz u. a. 1979, ISBN 3-8033-0293-5 , p. 137.