Max Gossner
Max Gossner (born August 25, 1894 in Weilheim , † April 5, 1973 in Haar ) was a German officer , fighter pilot in World War I and instructor in World War II .
Life
Gossner grew up in Rosenheim, attended grammar school up to secondary school leaving certificate and did an agricultural apprenticeship on various Upper Bavarian estates. In 1913 he joined the infantry body regiment of the Bavarian Army in Munich as a one-year volunteer and in 1914 went to the First World War. In 1915 he reported to the air force . Gossner was active in 1917 in Kampfstaffel 31 (later renamed Schutzstaffel 22b) as an observer, in Jagdstaffel 16, and in 1918 in Jagdstaffel 23 and in Jagdstaffel 77b as a pilot. By the end of the war he had eight aerial victories and received both classes of the Iron Cross as a lieutenant and fighter squadron leader . He was shot down twice in his fighter plane and was slightly wounded.
After the war, Gossner made up his Abitur and studied agriculture in Weihenstephan . In addition to his work as an agricultural councilor in Rosenheim, he worked on a dissertation on sowing meadows in the foothills of the Alps (graduation 1932).
In 1934 he enlisted in the new air force and was reactivated as captain . Gossner was initially trained in Blaubeuren and Giebelstadt. Then he set up an air group at the air base in Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental.
During the Second World War he was promoted to colonel and served in the Russian campaign for a few months .
For professional reasons (night blindness) he advised against training a nephew of Göring to be a pilot in 1938 and was then assigned to Guben . As the head of pilot schools (A / B and C) he trained fighter pilots; the best known was Captain Marseille .
After the war he was classified as a militarist during the denazification process and was only able to return to civil service as an agricultural councilor in 1951. When he retired he was a ministerial advisor .
literature
- Norman Franks, Greg VanWyngarden, Harry Dempsey: Fokker D VII. Aces of World War 1. Part 2. Osprey Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1841767298 . P. 87.
- Greg VanWyngarden: Albatross. Aces of World War 1. Part 2. Osprey Publishing, 2007, ISBN 1846031796 , p. 79.
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Gossner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Aerodrome
- dissertation
- Schwäbisch Hall Air Base ( Memento from January 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gossner, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German air force officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weilheim in Upper Bavaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th April 1973 |
| Place of death | hair |