Johann Czermak (pilot)

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Johann Czermak (also: Hans Czermak ; born April 16, 1896 at Ising Castle near Traunstein ; † February 10, 1928 ) was a German pilot , officer , fighter pilot of the Royal Bavarian Air Force , aerial photographer and arms smuggler .

Life

Until the end of the First World War

Johann Czermak grew at the time of the German Empire on the son of the owner of in Ising located its castle good , Leopold Czermak , a Major and later district leader of the federal Bavaria and Reich .

As a Catholic student , Czermak interrupted his studies a few days after the beginning of the First World War and on August 6, 1914, joined the motor vehicle replacement department as a volunteer for the German Army . In the service of the motor troop he was used from May 14, 1915 as a driver in the field pilot department 2 b (FFA 2 b). On October 21st of that year he began his training as a pilot in the pilot replacement department (Fea) at the Schleissheim airfield . After he had already been awarded the pilot's badge on July 30, 1916, he was promoted a little later on September 30, 1916 to lieutenant of the reserve .

After further stations, Czermak was first used as a combat single-seater pilot on May 1, 1917. In July of that year he became a member of Jagdgeschwader 1 , commanded by Manfred von Richthofen , and - as Richthofen's adjutant Karl Bodenschatz recorded and published in his patriotic pamphlet Jagd in Flanderns Himmel - his first " victory " at the in Meulebeke located in Belgium . Also Hermann Goering was a member of the hunting season.

From November 15, 1917 to November 26, 1917, Czermak acted as the leader of Jagdstaffel 6 .

Later, Czermak was used from January 10, 1918 as a leader of Jagdstaffel 32 (Jasta 32). Towards the end of the war he was a member of the Jagdstaffel (Jasta) 11 for a short time .

In the Weimar Republic

Early aerial photography from the log book of the Traunsteiner Academic Study Cooperative , handwritten subtitled “ Traunstein aus dem Flugzeug. Recording v. (Graf = deleted) Czermak, Ising "

Due to the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles Czermak wore in the Weimar Republic, his rank as lieutenant merely a. D. However, the former fighter pilot was, according to the the city archives Traunstein present book of Czermak family at the beginning of the Weimar Republic and later than the first time on 25 or 26 April 1920 as "Hans [with] Dolli Schuster and Lieutenant Rudolf Stark on the plane" on the go , while further flights were recorded in early May of that year. The aerial photographs later reproduced as postcards , which Hans Czermak or one of his fellow pilots from Traunstein took, presumably date from this time . An aerial photograph inserted in the guest book is handwritten with the subtitle “Traunstein from the airplane. Recording v. (Graf = deleted) Czermak, Ising. "

The five photographs from the airplane, attributed to Czermak , are the oldest known aerial photographs of the city of Traunstein after earlier balloon photographs from 1913. The images later served as a template for the postcards of the Flugphoto publishing company , based in Munich, and were used for postal purposes until at least 1935 .

Hans Czermak was the brother-in-law of the Freikorps - and later NSDAP member Max Neunzert . In addition Czermak was in by the group of people to the later SA -man Hans Schweighart committed Fememord to the maid Maria Sandy Mayer implicated that an arsenal of Einwohnerwehr wanted to see and then strangled on October 6, 1920 Forstenrieder park near Munich has been found.

In the immediate context of this is Ising Castle: The headquarters of the Czermaks temporarily served as one of the most important weapons depots in Bavaria - and Hans Czermak - like his brother-in-law Neunzert - was active in weapons stores.

Czermak himself died on February 10, 1928, unmarried, at the age of only 31.

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Czermak (Officer, 1896)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Harald Potempa : Jan. 10 - July 23, 1918 , in this: Die Königlich-Bayerische Fliegertruppe 1914–1918 (= European university publications , series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences , vol. 727 ), also dissertation 1995 at the University of Munich, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Bern; New York; Paris; Vienna: Lang, 1997, ISBN 978-3-631-30508-9 and ISBN 3-631-30508-7 , p. 577; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Franz Haselbeck : A chance find / old aerial photo in the log book of the "Traunsteiner Academic Study Cooperative" , digitized article on the Traunsteiner Tagblatt page , year 2013 number 27 of July 6, 2013, last accessed on 15 August 2018
  3. ^ A b c Carlos Collado Seidel : On a secret mission for Hitler and the Bavarian state government. The political adventurer Max Neunzert between Fememorden, Hitler Putsch and Berlin Crisis , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , Volume 50 (2002), Issue 2, pp. 201–236; as a PDF document from the website of the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ)
  4. ^ Karl Bodenschatz: Hunting in the sky of Flanders. From the 16 months of combat of the Freiherr von Richthofen Jagdgeschwader. According to Karl Bodenschatz's notes. Introduced by Hermann Göring , with an appendix: War diary of Jagdgeschwader 1 , 213 pages with 95 illustrations on plates, 4 facsimiles in the text and 2 map sketches, Munich: Knorr & Hirth, 1935; in the English translation by Jan Hayzlett: Hunting with Richthofen Jagd in Flanderns Himmel: The Bodenschatz Diaries: Sixteen Months of Battle with JG Freiherr von Richthofen No. 1 , second Edition, London: Grub Street, The Basement, 1996, ISBN 1-898697-97-3 , p. 30, 140; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ Over the Front (in English), Volume 3, edited by League of World War I Aviation Historians, 1988, p. 10, 17; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Ulrike Claudia Hofmann: “Traitors fall for the distance!” Fememorde in Bavaria in the twenties , also dissertation 1998/99 at the University of Bamberg, Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau, 2000, ISBN 978-3-412-15299-4 , passim ; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ↑ Ulrike Claudia Hofmann: Fememorde , published on May 15, 2006 on the site of the Historisches Lexikon Bayerns
personal data
SURNAME Czermak, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Czermak, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pilot, officer, fighter pilot and arms smuggler
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH near Traunstein
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1928