Josef Schmid (General)

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Josef Schmid

Josef Schmid (born September 24, 1901 in Göggingen ; † August 30, 1956 in Augsburg ) was a German officer , most recently Lieutenant General of the Air Force in World War II .

Military career

Promotions

Schmid served from February 12, 1919 to May 15, 1920 as a volunteer in the Epp Freikorps . He then joined the Reichswehr as a flag junior on April 13, 1921 and was assigned to the 19th Infantry Regiment . There Schmid attended the war school in Munich from 1922 to 1923 and the one in Ohrdruf in 1924 . After its completion he served as platoon leader in the 21st Infantry Regiment from 1925 to the end of September 1933 . His subsequent general staff training took place from October 1933 to June 1935.

In this capacity, Schmid joined the Air Force on July 1, 1935 , where he was initially a consultant in the operations department of the General Staff of the Air Force. On April 1, 1939, he was promoted to head of the 5th Department and at the same time served as General Staff Officer in the Ministerial Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force. Schmid held these two functions until mid-October 1942. From October 15 to December 31, 1942 he served in the staff of the Luftwaffe Division Hermann Göring , where he was the leader of Kampfgruppe Schmid. On January 1, 1943, he was appointed commander of the divisions of the same division in the Africa campaign . After the defeat of the Africa Corps , Schmid returned to Germany, where he was an officer without his own area of ​​activity until mid-September 1943. On September 15, 1943 he was appointed commanding general of the I. Hunting Corps , which he also led until the end of November 1944. In the last months of the war he was in command of the Air Force Command West from December 12, 1944 to April 27, 1945. On April 27, 1945 he was taken prisoner by the British , from which he was released on April 1, 1948.

Awards

After the war

From 1953 Schmid took part in the German Air Force (GAF) Monograph Project (also known as the 'Karlsruhe project'). Schmid and Major General a. D. Walter Grabmann collected around 2,500 pages; Parts of this flowed into Schmid's study The Air War in the West . Schmid also donated his diaries for the project.

literature

  • Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935–1945 Part II, Volume 3: Odebrecht – Zoch , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-2207-4 , pp. 196–197
  • Ernst Obermaier: The Luftwaffe Knight's Cross Carriers 1939–1945 Volume I Fighter Pilot , Dieter Hoffmann Verlag 1966, p. 201

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ryan Shaughnessy (2009): NO SENSE IN DWELLING ON THE PAST? THE FATE OF THE US AIR FORCE'S GERMAN AIR FORCE MONOGRAPH PROJECT, 1952-1969 (Thesis, Ohio State University), p. 3 ( online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / etd.ohiolink.edu  
  2. ↑ Ryan Shaughnessy (2009): NO SENSE IN DWELLING ON THE PAST? THE FATE OF THE US AIR FORCE'S GERMAN AIR FORCE MONOGRAPH PROJECT, 1952-1969 (Thesis, Ohio State University), p. 161 ( online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / etd.ohiolink.edu  
  3. ↑ Ryan Shaughnessy (2009): NO SENSE IN DWELLING ON THE PAST? THE FATE OF THE US AIR FORCE'S GERMAN AIR FORCE MONOGRAPH PROJECT, 1952-1969 (Thesis, Ohio State University), p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently Lieutenant General in the Air Force in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Göggingen
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1956
Place of death augsburg