Joachim Coeler

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Joachim Coeler (born June 1, 1891 in Posen , † May 14, 1955 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German officer , most recently General of the Air Force Aviators in World War II .

Military biography

Promotions

Early years and World War I

Coeler joined the Imperial Navy on April 1, 1912 , where he was assigned to Crew 12 . He completed his basic infantry training until May 13, 1912 at the Mürwik Naval School in Flensburg - Mürwik . Subsequently, from May 14, 1912 to the end of March 1913, his practical on-board training as a cadet on the training ship SMS Vineta took place . After the officers' course at the Mürwik Naval School, which lasted from April 1913 to the end of March 1914, Coeler completed an artillery and torpedo course by the end of July 1914. On July 31, 1914, he was assigned to the II. Sailor Division , from where Coeler was assigned to the ship of the line Brandenburg on August 7, 1914 . After the outbreak of the First World War , Coeler drove with this under Captain Karl Freiherr von Müffling, but only in the coast guard service . On March 6, 1915, Coeler switched to naval aviation, where he completed an aviation and pilot training course. He then flew, beyond the end of the war until July 2, 1919, with the I. Sea Aviation Department in Putzig , Kiel-Holtenau and Flensburg.

Interwar years

At the beginning of July 1919 Coeler came to the North Sea Sea Aviation Department in whose association he was available until the end of May 1920. After military aviation was banned under the Versailles Treaty , Coeler served as platoon leader in the Wilhelmshaven coastal regiment until mid-October of the same year . Coming from there on October 19, 1920, he was assigned as a company commander of the I. Department of the ship trunk division of the North Sea, where he was then deployed until the end of February 1922. At the same time he was led to the ship trunk of the Brandenburg during this time . On March 1, 1922, Coeler returned to this ship, where he was employed as a division and watch officer until January 20, 1924 . Subsequently, he was employed as a company commander in Coast Defense Division II until September 22, 1925 . From September 23, 1925 to the end of May 1926, Coeler acted as a naval intelligence officer. On June 1, 1926, he switched to naval command , where he worked until March 19, 1930 as a consultant in the sea transport department, and later in the air raid protection group there. On March 20, 1930 Coeler was appointed second navigator and adjutant on the Schleswig-Holstein ; a position he held until the end of January 1931. Following this, he was a navigation officer on the Hessen from February 1931 to September 1932 . From September 27, 1932 to September 30, 1933, Coeler held the status of "available" in the naval management and acted in this designation as the head of the pilot test command in Warnemünde .

On October 1, 1933, Coeler joined the Luftwaffe , which was in the process of being established , where he was employed as the commander of the Sea Observation School in Warnemünde until the end of September 1934. At the same time he acted from March 29th ( mdWdGb ) as commander of the Aviation School See. On October 1, 1934, Coeler transferred to Luftkreis-Kommando VI (lake) in Wilhelmshaven, where he was head of the liaison office there until the end of March 1935 and later served on the staff of the seaplane inspector. His last position was from April 1936 to February 4, 1938, the position of inspector of the sea pilots. Coeler held this position until the end of January 1939, even after his office was renamed the Luftwaffe See Command (effective February 4, 1938), which had since been relocated to Kiel . In February 1939 Coeler was posted to the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) in Berlin , where he held the status of an officer "for special use" until the end of March 1939. With effect from April 1, 1939 he was appointed leader of the Naval Air Force (FdLuft) there. He thus succeeded Hans Geisler .

Second World War

At the end of June 1939, the FdLuft's office was divided into the Fuhrer of the Marineluftstwehr West (FdLuftWest) and the Fuhrer of the Marine Air Force East (FdLuftOst), with Coeler acting as FdLuftWest from June 30, 1939 to April 25, 1940. In this function his associations were in the first phase of the Second World War a . A. entrusted with the mining of British territorial waters in the North Sea . At the same time Coeler acted from February 1 to October 15, 1940 as commander of the 9th Flieger Division , which u. a. with the Kampfgeschwader 4 and the Kampfgeschwader 40 were involved in the Battle of Britain . On October 16, 1940, the 9th Flieger Division was transferred to the IX. Fliegerkorps converted to whose first commanding General Coeler was appointed. The corps was first under Air Fleet 2 , then Air Fleet 3, with a command post in Soissons and Beauvais in northern France. On December 13, 1942, Coeler gave command of the corps to Lieutenant General Stefan Fröhlich , who took over on December 29, 1942 and transferred to the Führerreserve until the end of April 1943 . On April 30, 1943 Coeler was appointed commanding general of the newly established XIV Air Corps in Tutow , which was responsible as the general command for the transport units . On August 29, 1944, the General Command was renamed General der Transportflieger , whose commanding General Coeler remained until its dissolution on February 4, 1945. Subsequently, without a command function, Coeler was assigned to the Luftflotte Reich “available” and finally, shortly before the end of the war, was reassigned to the Führerreserve. A prisoner of war did not follow.

After the war, Coeler lived in seclusion in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , where he died in 1955.

Awards

literature

  • Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935–1945, Part II, Volume 1: Abernetty – v.Gyldenfeldt , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1701-1 , pp. 163–164

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.deutsches-marinearchiv.de/Archiv/1935-1945/Einsatz/1939/c1939-11-2.htm
personal data
SURNAME Coeler, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently General der Flieger in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1955
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen