Karl Angerstein

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Karl Angerstein (born December 4, 1890 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , † September 20, 1985 in Feldkirchen (district of Munich) ) was a German officer , most recently Lieutenant General in the Air Force in World War II .

Life

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Early years and World War I

Angerstein joined Infantry Regiment No. 87 on September 25, 1911 , where he was deployed as a flag junior and company officer until early June 1914 . From June 2 to August 1, 1914, he completed his training as a pilot in the air force in the Air Force Battalion 3 there . After the outbreak of World War Angerstein flew to early November 1914, first in the flyer substitute department 4 and later as leader of the flier half sections W and K . Here he sustained a serious wound on November 2, 1914. After several months of hospital stays in Posen and Erfurt , Angerstein did not return to the front until January 20, 1915. Here he was assigned to Feldflieger -teilung 52 , in which he flew on the Western Front until the end of April 1916 . During this time, he flew from the end of July to the beginning of September 1915 with Feldflieger -teilung 23 and from mid-February to March 23, 1916 with the Combat Single Seat Command West . As a pilot in Feldfliegerabteilung 52 , Angerstein was seriously wounded again on June 10, 1916. His subsequent hospital stay and his recovery in Mitau , Eberswalde and Wiesbaden lasted until December 1916 and Angerstein did not return to active service until December 22, 1916. Here, initially without an aviator, he was posted to the command of the aviator observation schools until the beginning of August 1917. It was not until August 3, 1917 that he joined Squadron 17 of the bomb squadron of the Supreme Army Command No. 3. There he remained until the demobilization - until January 1, 1919.

Interwar period

After the demobilization of his bomber squadron, Angerstein was hired as a pilot in Aviation Department 420 until mid-March 1919 , but on March 15, 1919 he moved to the North Border Guard Command, where he remained until the end of September 1919. On October 1, 1920, Angerstein was appointed police lieutenant and transferred to the police . Here he acted until the end of May 1920 as a leader of the air squadron and the air police department in Königsberg . In June 1920 he took over the technical team of the Schutzpolizei in Elbing and later acted from May 1922 to April 1924 as the leader of the Schutzpolizei in Deutsch-Eylau and Stuhm . In May 1924 Angerstein turned back to aviation and until mid-October 1924 served as an aviation advisor to the senior executive committee in Magdeburg . There he was appointed head of the air police surveillance service at the local security police on October 15, 1924. He held this position for almost 19 years until the end of April 1933. On May 1, 1933, Angerstein was promoted to stage manager in the Prussian air police at the office of Prussian Prime Minister Hermann Göring . On October 15, 1934 Angerstein was appointed head of the Munich Aviation Office; a position he held until the end of March 1937. During this time, he was appointed major on July 1, 1935 . After a subsequent assignment as an officer for special assignments in the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM), which lasted from April to June 1937, Angerstein came to Kampfgeschwader 157 on July 1, 1937 as a group commander . This was renamed the Kampfgeschwader 27 on May 1, 1939 .

Luftwaffe and World War II

Whether Angerstein took part in the attack on Poland in September 1939 with Kampfgeschwader 27 cannot be determined precisely because he transferred to Kampfgeschwader 28 at an unknown point in that month and was appointed commodore there. On January 10, 1940 Angerstein was appointed commodore of Sturzkampfgeschwader 3 (St.G. 3), which he led in the western campaign . On July 16, 1940, he gave command of the squadron to Lieutenant Colonel Georg Eder and was appointed commodore of Kampfgeschwaders 1 "Hindenburg" the following day, July 17, 1940 . Under his command, the squadron flew numerous attacks on southern England until the winter of 1940/1941. With the start of Operation Barbarossa , the Eastern campaign , the squadron flew missions in the Baltic states in the northern section of the front from June 1941 and later against Leningrad . On March 2, 1942, Angerstein was appointed Higher Commander of the Combat and Reconnaissance Aviation Schools, which he then held until June 25, 1943. From June 26th to November 6th, 1943 he was temporarily commissioned with the leadership of the I. Fliegerkorps , which at that time was deployed as part of Air Fleet 4 in the Simferopol area. The following day, November 7, 1943, the corps took over Major General Paul Deichmann and Angermann transferred to the Reich Court Martial in Berlin , where he was used as an officer judge until May 8, 1944. He then served as a representative of the Air Force at the High Command of the Wehrmacht and later in the Deputy General Command of the X Army Corps in Hamburg until the end of the war . There he came on May 8, 1945 in US captivity . From this he was released on June 30, 1947.

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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. 16-17.