Hilmer Freiherr von Bülow

Hilmer Freiherr von Bülow

Hilmer Kuno Ernst Freiherr von Bülow (born July 26, 1883 in Bückeburg ; † January 7, 1966 in Celle ) was a German Lieutenant General in the Air Force in World War II and a military writer.

Life

origin

Hilmar came from the Mecklenburg primeval noble family von Bülow . He was the second-born son of the princely schaumburg-Lippe district court president Louis Georg Heinrich von Bülow (1829-1894) and his wife Anna Friedrich (1846-1920).

Military career

On February 27, 1904, Bülow joined the Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 5 of the Prussian Army as an ensign and was promoted to lieutenant on January 27, 1905 . Until he was assigned to the War Academy from October 1, 1912 to August 2, 1914, he served as a company officer and first lieutenant in his regiment. Bülow had to break off his training due to the outbreak of the First World War and the mobilization . From August 3, 1914 to October 26, 1915, Bülow was an observer in the 1st Flieger Battalion and in this capacity was promoted to captain on November 28, 1914 . He was then used as a leader in the 11th Field Aviation Department until November 27, 1916. Thereafter he was used as a guide in Army Flight Park 9 until March 4, 1917. From March 5, 1917 to September 12, 1917 he was interim head of the field aviation department 9. Subsequently, Bülow was head of the Army Aviation Park 12 until December 29, 1917 and then 14. From December 30, 1917 to the 27 September 1918 he was head of the Artillery Fliegerabteilung 223. A position as a group leader of the field Fliegerabteilung 24 followed from September 28, 1918 to November 30, 1918. For his achievements during the war, Bülow was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross and the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords.

After the end of the war , he acted from December 1, 1918 to March 26, 1919 as head of the Field Aviation Department 21. This unit was then demobilized by September 3, 1919 . From September 4, 1919, Bülow was formally available to the Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 5 and was on leave. On March 31, 1920, he resigned under the ceremony character as a Major from active military service.

From March 1, 1926 to May 31, 1934, Bülow was a civilian employee as head of the Department for Foreign Air Forces in the Army Office of the Reichswehr Ministry . On October 1, 1933, he was reactivated as an electronic officer with a patent as a major in the Reichswehr . Bülow then served from June 1, 1934, initially as a lieutenant colonel , from October 1, 1936 as a colonel , until May 31, 1938 in the air force as head of the department for foreign air forces in the military office of the Reich Aviation Ministry . Bülow was then deployed as an air force attaché from June 1, 1938 to June 30, 1941 at the German embassy in Rome and until March 31, 1942 at the German embassy in Madrid . In these positions he was promoted to major general on April 1, 1939 and to lieutenant general on April 1, 1941. It was followed by a national assignment as head of the Department of War Studies of the Air Force in the period from April 1, 1942 to August 28, 1943. In his last military service in the period from August 28 to October 31, 1943, Bülow was deployed in the Führerreserve of the Air Force High Command . At the end of October 31, 1943, Bülow retired from military service in the Air Force.

family

Bülow was married to Edith Freiin von Seebach . The son Joachim Hilmer Ernst and the daughter Sibylle Maria Elisabeth emerged from the marriage. Joachim fell on April 24, 1941 during the Second World War as a lieutenant in a fighter squadron in an aerial battle over the English Channel .

He was "the formative chairman of the family association (1951-1960)".

Works

• History of the Air Force - development of the fifth weapon. Moritz Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1934.
• The basics of modern air forces. In: Militärwissenschaftliche Rundschau 1 (1936), pp. 78-107.
• History of the Air Force: A brief description of the development of the third part of the Wehrmacht. Moritz Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1937.

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility . v. Bülow. Volume 92 of the complete series, CA Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1987, p. 219.
• Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935-1945. The military careers of the aviation, anti-aircraft, paratrooper, air intelligence and engineer officers. Part II, Volume 1: Abernetty – v. Gyldenfeldt. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1701-1 , pp. 97-98.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. v. Bülow. Volume 92 of the complete series, CA Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1987, p. 217.