Herbert Wehnelt

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Herbert A. Wehnelt (born September 20, 1918 in Guhrau , Silesia , † February 17, 2007 ) was a German officer, most recently with the rank of lieutenant general in the Air Force . From 1971 to 1974 he was the commanding general of the Air Fleet Command .

Life

Herbert Wehnelt attended the Reform-Realgymnasium in Guhrau until 1936 and then joined the Air Force as a flag junior . He attended the aerial warfare schools in Wildpark and Berlin-Gatow and was promoted to lieutenant in 1938 after being transferred to Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen" . From 1939 to 1945 Wehnelt was used as a fighter pilot , intelligence officer, adjutant, squadron captain and group commander in Jagdgeschwader 51 ; most recently he was commodore of a hunting school squadron.

After the end of the Second World War, Wehnelt worked as an independent businessman. In the spring of 1954 he was appointed to the office of Blank , in the air force planning group. In 1956 he was assigned to the Royal Air Force (RAF) in England to receive practical training on modern jet aircraft. In 1957 Wehnelt, meanwhile promoted to lieutenant colonel, was entrusted with setting up weapons school 10 in Oldenburg and Nörvenich. After being promoted to Colonel , Wehnelt was commander of the Luftwaffe 10 weapons school in Jever from May 1957 to February 1962 , after which he began his service as the first commander of the Northern Fliegerdivision in Münster.

Promoted to Lieutenant General, Wehnelt took over the post of Commanding General of the Air Fleet Command from April 1, 1971 to September 30, 1974 .

literature

  • Helmut Ruppert: Farewell to Lieutenant General a. D. Herbert Wehnelt. 2007.
  • Kurt Neher, Karl Heinz Mende: Yearbook of the Air Force. Defense and Knowledge Publishing Company 1975.
  • Chris Goss: Luftwaffe Fighters and Bombers: The Battle of Britain. Stackpole Books 2010, ISBN 0-811-70749-0 .
  • Jochen Prien: The fighter pilot associations of the German Air Force 1934 to 1945, Volume 6, Part 1. Struve-Druck 2000, ISBN 3-923-45769-3 .
  • Hans-Werner Jarosch: Always on duty: 50 years of the Air Force. ES Mittler & Sohn 2005, ISBN 3-813-20837-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luftwaffe officers 1939–1945 ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 24, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ww2.dk
  2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, June 15, 2001, p. 16.
  3. ↑ fliegerhorst-oldenburg.de. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Wehnelt, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wehnelt, Herbert A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Guhrau
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 2007