Rudolf Trautvetter

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Rudolf Trautvetter (born August 17, 1891 in Goldap , † March 19, 1982 in Celle ) was an officer in the Wehrmacht Air Force , most recently in the rank of major general .

Life

Trautvetter joined the imperial army on October 1, 1912 and served in the infantry . After the beginning of the First World War he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve on July 26, 1915 . After he had switched to Army Aviation Park 7 on July 26, 1917, he began training as an observer on November 1, 1917 at Flieger Ersatz -teilung 5 in Hanover . He then went to the Stolp Fliegerbeobachterschule on March 2, 1918 and to Army Aviation Park 6 on April 14, 1918. From May 4, 1918, he strengthened the Aviation Department 236 and then from August 18, 1918 the bomb squadron of Supreme Army Command 6 (Bogohl 6 ). There he was appointed first lieutenant in the reserve on November 28, 1918 and discharged from the army at the end of the war.

He switched to industry and worked for Deutsche Luftfahrt GmbH from January 1, 1927 . From 1 March 1931, he led the civil aviation school Böblingen and resigned in March 1933 after the seizure of power by the Nazis, the Nazi one.

On May 1, 1934, he joined the Air Force, which was still camouflaged , as a captain , and took over the position of director of the Würzburg pilot school . From April 1, 1935, he was involved in setting up the Fürth pilot's school as a director and was also the commander of the Fürth air base . From July 1, he then took on the same tasks at the newly formed Salzwedel pilot school at the Salzwedel air base . There he was promoted to major on September 1, 1939 and on February 1, 1938 to lieutenant colonel . On 1 July 1938 he joined as commander of the Special Air Air Ministry for airfield Berlin-Staaken , whose commander he was. After he was promoted to colonel on November 1, 1940 , he took over the combat squadron zbV 1 on August 1, 1941 as a squadron commodore . Subsequently, on December 9, 1941, he switched to the same position at Kampfgeschwader zbV 2 . But as early as April 8, 1942, he took over training tasks when he became commander of the command of the blind flight schools . After taking over the newly established 2nd Flieger School Division as commander on October 1, 1943, he was promoted to major general on March 1, 1944. There he was awarded the German Silver Cross on March 26, 1944 and transferred to the Führer Reserve on January 5, 1945 . From February 1945 he took over command of the airport area command 4 / III before he was taken prisoner by the British on May 2, 1945 near Schwerin . From this he was released on March 5, 1948.

After the war he became honorary president of the DVS comradeship together with Fritz Morzik .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Soldiers' Yearbook . 1964, p. 158 ( google.de [accessed on July 17, 2020]).
  2. ^ Military weekly paper . ES Mittler., 1940, p. 909 ( google.de [accessed on July 17, 2020]).
  3. ^ Peter Schmitz: The German divisions, 1939–1945: Army, land-based navy, air force, Waffen-SS . Biblio, 1993, ISBN 978-3-7648-2421-1 , pp. 189 ( google.de [accessed on July 17, 2020]).
  4. ^ Reuss yearbook of aerospace . SVA Südwestdeutsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH & Co., 1982, p. 175 ( google.de [accessed on July 17, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Trautvetter, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Air Force Admiral
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Goldap
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1982
Place of death Celle