List of German fighter pilots in World War II

The list of German fighter pilots in World War II includes a selection of highly decorated fighter pilots of the German Air Force during the Second World War .

Overview

The table contains the following information:

• Surname
• Rank
  • Get the last rank achieved in the armed forces of
• Excl .: Abbreviations of the awards
  • German Cross in Gold (DKG)
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (RK)
    • with oak leaves (RKE)
    • with oak leaves and swords (RKS)
    • with oak leaves, swords and diamonds (RKB)
• Date of birth
• date of death
• Shot number: Number of times enemy machines were shot down during World War II

Note: The list can be sorted : By clicking on a column header, the list is sorted according to this column, clicking twice reverses the sorting.

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Surname	Rank	Exc.	Date of birth	date of death	Kill number	image
Horst Ademeit	major	RKE	0Feb 8, 1912	0Aug 7, 1944	166
Heinz Bear	Lieutenant colonel	RKS	May 25, 1913	Apr 28, 1957	220
Wilhelm Balthasar	Major ( posthumous )	RKE	0Feb. 2, 1914	0July 3, 1941	47
Gerhard Barkhorn	major	RKS	20 Mar 1919	0Jan. 8, 1983	301
Hans Hahn	major	RKS	Apr 14, 1914	Dec 18, 1982	108
Werner Schroer	major	RKS	Feb 12, 1918	Feb 10, 1985	114
Wilhelm Batz	major	RKS	May 21, 1916	Sep 11 1988	237
Kurt Bühligen	First lieutenant	RKS	Dec 13, 1917	Aug 11, 1985	112
Dietrich Hrabak	Colonel	RKS	December 19, 1914	Sep 15 1995	125
Viktor Bauer	Colonel	RKE	19 Sep 1915	Dec 13, 1969	106
Hans-Ekkehard Bob	major	RK	Jan. 24, 1917	Aug 12, 2013	60
Joachim Brendel	Captain	RKE	Apr. 27, 1921	0July 7th 1974	189
Hugo Broch	lieutenant	RK	0Jan. 6, 1922		81
Walther Dahl	Colonel	RKE	27 Mar 1916	Nov 25, 1985	128
Martin Drewes	major	RKE	Oct. 20, 1918	Oct 13, 2013	52
Heinrich Ehrler	major	RKE	Sep 14 1917	0Apr 4, 1945	208
Wolfgang Falck	Colonel	RK	Aug 19, 1910	13 Mar 2007	8th
Adolf Galland	Lieutenant General	RKB	19 Mar 1912	0Feb 9, 1996	104
Gordon M. Gollob	Colonel	RKB	June 16, 1912	0Sep 7 1987	150
Hermann Graf	Colonel	RKB	Oct. 24, 1912	0Nov 4, 1988	212
Karl Gratz	lieutenant	RK	Jan. 24, 1919	14 Mar 2002	138
Anton Hackl	major	RKS	25th Mar 1915	July 10, 1984	192
Anton Hafner	First lieutenant	RKE	0June 2, 1918	Oct 17, 1944	204
Erich Hartmann	major	RKB	Apr 19, 1922	Sep 20 1993	352
Hajo Herrmann	Colonel	RKS	0Aug 1, 1913	0Nov 5, 2010	9
Heinrich Hoffmann	Oberfeldwebel dR	RKE	0March 8 1913	0Oct. 3, 1941	63
Herbert Ihlefeld	Colonel	RKS	0June 1, 1914	0Aug 8, 1995	123
Josef Jennewein	Lieutenant (posthumously)	RK (posthumous)	Nov 21, 1919	July 27, 1943	86
Wilhelm Johnen	Captain	RK	0Oct 9, 1921	0Feb 7, 2002	34
Günther Josten	First lieutenant	RKE	0Nov 7, 1921	0July 7, 2004	178
Erbo Count von Kageneck	First lieutenant	RKE	0Apr 2, 1918	Jan. 12, 1942	67
Otto Kittel	First lieutenant	RKS	Feb 21, 1917	Feb 16, 1945	267
Walter Krupinski	Captain	RKE	Nov 11, 1920	0Oct 7, 2000	197
August Lambert	First lieutenant	RK	Feb. 18, 1916	Apr 17, 1945	116
Helmut Lent	Colonel	RKB	June 13, 1918	0Oct 7, 1944	110
Helmut Lipfert	Captain	RKE	0Aug 6, 1916	Aug 10, 1990	203
Gerhard Limberg	First lieutenant	DKG	0July 7, 1920	23 Mar 2006	106
Günther Lützow	Colonel	RKS	04th Sep 1912	Apr. 24, 1945	105
Hans-Joachim Marseille	Captain	RKB	Dec 13, 1919	Sep 30 1942	158
Julius Meimberg	major	RK	Jan. 11, 1917	Jan. 17, 2012	59
Werner Mölders	Colonel	RKB	18 Mar 1913	Nov 22, 1941	101
Joachim Müncheberg	major	RKS	December 31, 1918	23 Mar 1943	135
Leopold Munster	lieutenant	RKE	Dec 13, 1920	0May 8, 1944	95
Walter Nowotny	major	RKB	0Dec. 7, 1920	0Nov 8, 1944	258
Friedrich Obleser	First lieutenant	RK	Feb 21, 1923	0June 5, 2004	120
Walter Oesau	Colonel	RKS	0June 8, 1913	May 11, 1944	125
Theodor Osterkamp	Major general	RK	Apr 15, 1892	0Jan. 2, 1975	6th
Max-Hellmuth Ostermann	First lieutenant	RKS	December 11, 1917	0Aug 9, 1942	102
Hans Philipp	Lieutenant colonel	RKS	17th Mar 1917	0Oct 8, 1943	206
Josef Priller	Colonel	RKS	July 27, 1915	May 20, 1961	101
Günther Rall	major	RKS	10 Mar 1918	0Oct 4, 2009	275
Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert	Lieutenant colonel	RKS	0Feb. 2, 1919	05th Sep 2007	174
Willi Reschke	Sergeant Major	RK	0Feb 3, 1922	05th July 2017	27
Heinz Rökker	Captain	RKE	Oct. 20, 1920	0Aug 2, 2018	64
Erich Rudorffer	major	RKS	0Nov 1, 1917	0Apr 8, 2016	222
Heinrich Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein	major	RKS (posthumous)	Aug 14, 1916	Jan. 21, 1944	83
Günther Schack	Captain	RKE	Nov 12, 1917	June 14, 2003	174
Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer	major	RKB	Feb 16, 1922	July 15, 1950	121
Günther Scholz	Lieutenant colonel	DKG	0Dec 8, 1911	Oct. 24, 2014	34
Walter Schuck	First lieutenant	RKE	July 30, 1920	27 Mar 2015	206
Günther Seeger	First lieutenant	RK	0Sep 9 1918	06 Sep 2013	56
Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt	First lieutenant	RKE	Sep 15 1920	0Sep 7 1942	59
Leopold Steinbatz	lieutenant	RKS	Oct 25, 1918	June 15, 1942	99
Johannes Steinhoff	Colonel	RKS	Sep 15 1913	Feb 21, 1994	176
Max Stotz	Captain	RKE	Feb 13, 1912	Aug 19, 1943	189
Werner Streib	Colonel	RKS	June 13, 1911	June 15, 1986	66
Alfred Teumer	Captain	RK	Feb 11, 1918	0Oct. 4, 1944	76
Johannes Trautloft	Colonel	RK	03rd Mar 1912	0Jan. 1, 1995	58
Kurt Welter	First lieutenant	RKE	Feb 25, 1916	07th Mar 1949	63
Theodor Weissenberger	major	RKE	Dec 21, 1914	June 11, 1950	208
Franz von Werra	Captain	RK	July 13, 1914	Oct 25, 1941	21st
Helmut Wick	major	RKE	0Aug 5, 1915	Nov 28, 1940	56
Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke	major	RKS	11th Mar 1913	23 Mar 1944	162
Walter Wolfrum	First lieutenant	RK	May 23, 1923	Aug 26, 2010	137
Josef Wurmheller	major	RKS	0May 4, 1917	June 22, 1944	102
Paul Zorner	major	RKE	31 Mar 1920	Jan. 27, 2014	59

Mainly used aircraft types

• Messerschmitt Bf 109
• Focke-Wulf Fw 190
• Messerschmitt Bf 110
• Messerschmitt Me 262

See also

• Dogfight
• Air War in World War II
• List of British fighter pilots in World War II
• List of American fighter pilots in World War II
• List of Soviet fighter pilots in World War II
• List of Japanese fighter pilots in World War II
• List of German fighter pilots in the First World War
• List of bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Fighter Pilots
  • Oak leaves
  • Swords
  • Diamonds

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The information on this list is largely taken from the publication by Raymond F. Toliver, Trevor J. Constable and Mike Spick. Extracts from other sources are not specifically indicated where there is no link to personal articles.

• Fighter Pilot Aces List of Air University

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Obermaier: The Air Force Knight's Cross bearers 1939–1945. Volume I: Fighter pilots. Dieter Hoffmann Verlag, 1966, p. 102.
2. ↑ Martin Drewes: Sand and Fire . Twenty-nine six publishing house, Moosburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811615-6-4 .
3. ^ Enemy contact: Memoirs 1939–1945 . Twenty-nine six publishing house, Moosburg 2002. ISBN 978-3-9807935-1-3 .
4. ↑ Willi Reschke: Chronicle of Jagdgeschwader 301/302 Wilde Sau . ISBN 978-3-613-03268-2 , p. 244 f.
5. ^ Ingo Möbius: In action over Europe - the fighter pilot Günther Scholz remembers , self-published Ingo Möbius, Chemnitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027503-6
6. ↑ Günther Scholz's obituary notice
7. ^ Jagdgeschwader 5 Eismeer and 7 Nowotny
8. ↑ FLIEGERBLATT - Bulletin of the Association of Fliers of German Armed Forces e. V. - 6/2013, p. 98.
9. ^ Aders / Held: Jagdgeschwader 51 "Mölders" , Stuttgart 1993, page 267, ISBN 3-613-01045-3 .

literature

• Raymond F. Toliver, Trevor J. Constable : These were the German fighter pilot aces 1939–1945 . Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-87943-193-0 .
• Raymond F. Toliver, Trevor J. Constable: Get Hartmann from Heaven! : the story of the world's most successful fighter pilot . Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-87943-216-3 .
• Edward H. Sims, Jagdflieger - The great opponents of yore Motorbuchverlag Stuttgart 16th edition 1996 ISBN 3-87943-115-9 p. 33.
• Walter Schuck: Shooting. From the Me 109 to the Me 262, Helios-Verlag, Aachen 2008, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-3-938208-44-1 .
• Mike Spick: The fighter breed of the German Air Force . Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-7637-5978-6 .
• Mano Ziegler : Turbinenjäger Me 262. The story of the world's first operational jet fighter Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart; Edition: 6th A. (January 1998), ISBN 978-3-87943-542-5 .
• Walther-Peer Fellgiebel (2004): The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 , Publisher: Dörfler, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 .