Walter Stahr

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August Leopold Walter Stahr (born November 5, 1882 in Berlin , † March 19, 1948 in Bad Saarow ) was a German officer . From 1925 to 1929 he was head of the secret flying school in Lipetsk and most recently Major General of the Air Force .

Life

Walter Stahr was born in Berlin in 1882 as the son of the Supreme Court Councilor Julius Gustav Theodor Stahr and his wife Anna Clara Lydia, née. Born steep. On November 24, 1901, he joined the field artillery regiment "von Podbielski" (1st Lower Silesian) No. 5 as a flag junior .

During the First World War he was from the end of February 1917 Commander of the Flieger (Kofl) of the 7th Army , and later of the 17th Army . He held the latter command beyond the end of the war until January 8, 1919. He then served in the Reichswehr as commander of the aviators at the Army High Command South. Further as commander of the Brieg Air Base , he became a consultant in the Reichswehr Ministry in 1920 . At his own request, he resigned from active service on December 31, 1922 while simultaneously being promoted to major .

As a major D. he was the head of the secret Aviation School Lipezk ( Stahr School ) from June 1925 to December 1, 1929, where aircraft were tested with the Red Army and pilots were trained, which was illegal after the Treaty of Versailles . During this time he made the acquaintance of the later Soviet Marshal Tukhachevsky , who in 1932 stayed in Bad Saarow, the place of residence of Stahr, after a meeting with President Paul von Hindenburg . Major Max Mohr took over the post after him. Stahr then carried out preparatory work for the construction of a similar test facility in Germany and was military director of the German Test Institute for Aviation until June 30, 1934. On July 1, 1934, he was reactivated for active service and entrusted with special tasks of the Reich Air Ministry. Appointed major general on January 1, 1937, he was finally adopted into retirement on February 28, 1939.

On December 15, 1920, in Wilmersdorf , Stahr married the noblewoman Martha von Beaulieu-Marconnay (1894–1979), captain's daughter and sister of the fighter pilot Olivier von Beaulieu-Marconnay . His two sons Hasso and Klaus also became officers in the Wehrmacht and died in April 1945. At the end of the war, Stahr was shot twice when he defended himself in front of women. He was temporarily imprisoned, but soon released due to his collaboration with the Red Army (in Lipetsk, 1925–1929).

literature

  • Heinrich Beauvais, Max Mayer: Flight test sites until 1945. Johannisthal, Lipezk, Rechlin, Travemünde, Tarnewitz, Peenemünde-West (= Die deutsche Luftfahrt. Vol. 27). Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-7637-6117-9 , p. 52.
  • Reinhard Kiesewetter: Dream housing - 60 houses with an eventful history in Bad Saarow-Pieskow on the “Märkisches Meer” , published by the Förderverein Kurort Bad Saarow e. V., p. 58f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Berlin registry office IV a: Birth register . No. 141/1882.
  2. ^ Wilmersdorf registry office : marriage register . No. 1694/1920.
personal data
SURNAME Stahr, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stahr, August Leopold Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently Major General of the Air Force, head of the Lipetsk Aviation School
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1948
Place of death Bad Saarow