Max Heyna

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Max Heyna (born October 21, 1903 in Rawitsch ; † 1992 ) was a German officer and in the air force of the armed forces and later the air force of the armed forces . He retired as brigadier general .

Life

Max Heyna joined the Reichswehr motor vehicle troops on November 1, 1923 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1926 .

On November 11, 1933, he switched to the Luftwaffe, which had not yet been officially established, and took up an observer course at the Braunschweig observer school until February 27, 1934. He then moved to the Great Fighting School in Lechfeld . In 1934 he was promoted to captain and from June 3, 1935 to Luftkriegsschule II in Berlin-Gatow . In 1935/36 he completed his pilot training.

From November 1, 1935, he completed general staff training at the Air Technology Academy in Berlin-Gatow and then took up a position in the Reich Ministry of Aviation . On March 7, 1939, as captain, he took over the post of squadron captain of the 1st squadron of Kampfgeschwader 155, renamed Kampfgeschwader 55 on May 1st . From July 3, he was group commander of the 1st group of Kampfgeschwader 55 with the simultaneous assumption of the function of commander of the Langendiebach air base .

On January 10, 1940, he was relieved and transferred to the Fuehrer's reserve, before he took on a position in the staff of the Air District Command Belgium on May 24. In the following years he served in the staff of the Luftgau Command II, the Luftwaffe Commander Center, the Luftflotte 4 and the Luftgau Command VIII. In this he rose on June 1, 1943, as Lieutenant Colonel, to Chief of Staff. He then exercised this function in the Feld-Luftgaukommando XXV before he was reassigned to the Führerreserve on August 9, 1944. Towards the end of the war he was employed as a colonel in the staff of Air Fleet 3 .

After joining the Bundeswehr in 1956, he was promoted to Brigadier General on January 31, 1958. Until 1957 he was head of subdivision VI C logistics in the department for air force at the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn . Then he was sub-department head at Fü L until 1959 . His successor in this position was Kurt Kuhlmey .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Dieter Krüger: The blank office: the difficult establishment of the Federal Ministry of Defense . Rombach, 1993, ISBN 978-3-7930-0198-0 , pp. 189 ( google.de [accessed on July 15, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Reinhard Teuber: The Bundeswehr 1955-1995 . Militair-Verlag KD Patzwall, 1996, p. 85 ( google.de [accessed on July 15, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Reinhard Teuber: The Bundeswehr 1955-1995 . Militair-Verlag KD Patzwall, 1996, p. 86 ( google.de [accessed on July 15, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Heyna, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently Brigadier General
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Rawitsch
DATE OF DEATH after 1958