Walter Grabmann

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Walter Grabmann (born September 20, 1905 in Bad Reichenhall , † August 20, 1992 in Munich ) was a German officer , most recently Major General of the Air Force in World War II .

Military career

Promotions

Grabmann joined the Bavarian State Police in Nuremberg on May 24, 1924 as a company officer and platoon leader . Later he also worked there as a recruit trainer in Fürth . From April 1931 to September 1934, Grabmann completed an aircraft pilot's training with the air police in Fürth and was then employed by the Bayern Nord flight control.

On October 1, 1934, Grabmann joined the Luftwaffe , which was under construction , where he was an aircraft pilot at the fighter pilot school in Lechfeld until the end of March 1935 . He completed his training as a fighter pilot from April to July 1935 at the Aviation School in Schleissheim . From August 1935 to the beginning of March 1936 he was employed as a course director at the local flying school. On March 7, 1936 Grabmann was promoted to Adjutant of Jagdgeschwader 134 Horst Wessel, where he remained until mid-March 1937. Subsequently, he was posted to Jagdgeschwader 234 , where he was group commander . From September 193? Until July 16, 1939 Grabmann acted as commander of Jagdgruppe 88 in the Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War . There he achieved his first 6 victories in the air.

Grabmann then led the I. Group of Lehrgeschwader 1 during the attack on Poland . On April 15, 1940 he became commodore of Destroyer Squadron 76 . The first operations of the squadron took place in the context of the Battle of Britain . This was followed by the relocation of the squadron to Norway, where Grabmann served as fighter pilot in Northern Norway until the end of July 1941 .

From August 1941 to August 19, 1942, Grabmann was the commander of Destroyer School 2 in Memmingen and then from August 20, 1942 to November 10, 1943, Fighter Pilot Holland-Ruhr Area . In the further course of the war he acted from November 11, 1943 to April 4, 1945 as commander of the 3rd hunting division and then from April 5 to April 29, 1945 as commander of the 1st hunting division . During the last days of the war he was in command of the 15th Flieger Division , whose post he held until July 7, 1945. He then came into British captivity, from which he was released on May 17, 1948.

In total, Grabmann achieved 12 aerial victories on 100 enemy flights and 6 victories in the Spanish Civil War on 137 enemy flights.

Awards

After the war

Grabmann took part in the German Air Force (GAF) Monograph Project (also known as the 'Karlsruhe project').

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. 383–384
  • Ernst Obermaier: The Luftwaffe Knight's Cross Carriers 1939–1945 Volume I Fighter Pilot , Dieter Hoffmann Verlag 1966, p. 128

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ryan Shaughnessy (2009): NO SENSE IN DWELLING ON THE PAST? THE FATE OF THE US AIR FORCE'S GERMAN AIR FORCE MONOGRAPH PROJECT, 1952-1969 (Thesis, Ohio State University), pp. 82 and 161f. ( online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / etd.ohiolink.edu  
personal data
SURNAME Grabmann, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently major general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Reichenhall
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1992
Place of death Munich