Werner Streib

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Werner Streib (born June 13, 1911 in Pforzheim ; † June 15, 1986 in Munich ) was a German officer . He fought as a fighter pilot in the Second World War in the Air Force and was in the German Armed Forces after the war , where he last held the rank of brigadier general .

Military career

Young years and education

After graduating from high school , Streib initially worked in banking for three years . In 1934 he joined the Reichswehr . There he was assigned to the 14th Infantry Regiment as a flag boy . In 1936 Streib switched to the Air Force , where he was initially employed as an observer in the rank of lieutenant . Then he was a student pilot in a reconnaissance group. This was followed by training at the blind flight school in Wesendorf and Brandis . In 1938 Streib came to Jüterbog-Damm as a pilot in Group II of the Richthofen Jagdgeschwader .

Second World War

When the Second World War broke out , Streib, meanwhile in the rank of first lieutenant , acted as head of the airport area company and as a pilot in Destroyer Squadron 1 . Here he rose a short time later to the squadron captain. In this capacity, Streib achieved his first aerial victory on May 10, 1940 as part of the western campaign . On the night of July 20 to 21, 1940, Streib was the first officer in the Luftwaffe to score a kill with his Me 110 as part of the “light night chase”. Due to his success, Streib was mentioned as the first night fighter in the Wehrmacht report. After a total of eight victories in the air, seven of which were night victories, Streib was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on October 6, 1940 as first lieutenant and squadron captain of the 2nd squadron of Nachtjagdgeschwader 2 . At the same time he was promoted to captain . After moving to Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 , he became group commander of Group I in October 1940. On January 14, 1943, Streib achieved his 40th victory in the air, for which he, meanwhile in the rank of major , was awarded the Knight's Cross on February 27, 1943. On the night of June 11-12, 1943, Streib flew together with his radio operator Fischer in a He-219 night fighter against incoming British night bombers in order to check this type of aircraft for front-line suitability, and was able to detect five four-engine British Avro bombers Shoot down Lancaster .

As of July 1, 1943 Streib was as a lieutenant colonel for Commodore appointed the night fighter squadron first On March 11, 1944, Streib was the 54th Wehrmacht soldier to be awarded the swords for oak leaves after 66 victories in the air. In the same month Streib was withdrawn from events at the front and transferred to Adolf Galland's staff . There he acted as an inspector of the night hunters due to his night hunting experience . Until the end of the war, he provided valuable impulses for the development of night hunting . At the end of the war, Streib held the rank of colonel . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Western Allies, from which he was released in 1946.

Bundeswehr service

After the war, Streib initially worked as a manager in a wholesale company. On March 16, 1956, he joined the Bundeswehr . There he headed the pilot school A in Landsberg am Lech for three years, which took over the beginner training of German pilots with the T-6 Texan . This was followed by six months of service in the NATO Defense in Paris . Then from 1958 Streib was Brigadier General and "Flugführer Süd" and from January 1, 1961, Commander of the Fliegerdivision Süd in Karlsruhe . From October 1962 he commanded the training brigade 2 in Fürstenfeldbruck . From October 1963 he was employed in the air force command staff in Cologne-Wahn . He ended his army career on March 31, 1966 as "stage manager flying associations" and retired .

Awards

See also

literature

  • Werner Held, Holger Nauroth: The German night hunt . Paul Pietsch (Motorbuch), Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-87943-593-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Brütting : The book of German flight history , Drei Brunnen Verlag Stuttgart 1979, Volume 3, p. 482.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Brütting p. 482.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Brütting p. 483.
  4. ↑ a b Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 1939–1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 730.
personal data
SURNAME Streib, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, brigadier general of the Bundeswehr, German night fighter pilot in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1986
Place of death Munich