Wilhelm Paul Schreiber

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Willy Schreiber
AEG J1 (1917)

Wilhelm Paul Schreiber (born December 21, 1893 in Bramsche ; † May 30, 1918 near Ypres ) was a Prussian officer and infantry aviator in the First World War .

Life

As the son of a pharmacist, Schreiber attended secondary school in Quakenbrück . After graduating from high school in Easter 1913, he studied law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . On April 29, 1913 he renounced as a fox in the Corps Suevia Freiburg . On March 6, 1914, he was reciprocated. Still an active corps boy and cand. Iur., He volunteered at the beginning of the First World War on August 15, 1914, as a volunteer with the II. Replacement Department of the East Frisian Field Artillery Regiment No. 62 in Oldenburg . After brief training, he came to the front on October 31, 1914 for Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 20 . Initially assigned to the 1st ammunition column, Schreiber was transferred to the 1st battery of the regiment on January 6, 1915 and promoted to lieutenant in the reserve on August 25, 1916 . Until mid-1916, Schreiber took part in all combat operations in his regiment.

At his own request, he switched to the air force . On November 15, 1916, he was sent to the Army Flugpark I for the examination of observer aptitude and on November 23, 1916 he was transferred to the Aviator Observer School in Königsberg . On January 17, 1917 he was assigned to Feldflieger -teilung (A) 221 on the Western Front and transferred to the department on February 14, 1917. In the Siegfriedstellung , Schreiber and his pilot Schäfer did an excellent job of clearing up the opposing front. In March 1917 in particular, they faced heavy aerial battles and survived several emergency landings. During a reconnaissance flight on May 18, 1918, they photographed a SPAD S.XIII being shot down . Two weeks later, Schreiber was informed by telephone from the headquarters that the Pour le Mérite had been awarded. The next or the same day, May 30, 1918, Schäfer and Schreiber were shot down by ground machine guns . Schreiber's body was recovered that night. Heavy artillery fire prevented the trapped pilot from being recovered. Feldwebel Heinrich Ernst Schäfer (* 1893) was posthumously honored with the Golden Military Merit Cross on June 11, 1918 .

The call from GHQ was premature. The proposal was only presented to the military cabinet on June 3, 1918, after Schreiber's death, by the Commanding General of the Air Force . Unaware of his death, he was also put on the list of proposals for the Most High Lecture on June 8, 1918; In the order of June 11th, Schreiber is deleted with the addition "already died on May 30th, 1918" . Schreiber is thus the only person who was posthumously awarded the highest Prussian bravery award.

The scribe, who fell at the age of 25, was first buried in Iseghem II cemetery, which was closed in the 1950s. Since then it has been resting in the military cemetery in Menen , final grave site, Block M, grave 953.

The Schreiberring in Berlin-Tempelhof is named after him.

Awards

literature

  • Koch: The aviation department 221. Oldenburg i. O. 1925.
  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 3: P-Z. Biblio Publishing House. Bissendorf 2011. ISBN 3-7648-2586-3 . P. 264.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Wolfgang Büdingen: Freiburger Schwabenblatt. No. 20 (1937), p. 13ff.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 36/703.
  3. ↑ a b Aviator album
  4. ^ Wolfgang Büdingen: The Freiburg Seniors Convent. In: Ehrentafel 1914 to 1918. Publisher of the Deutsche Corpszeitung. 1931. p. 389.
personal data
SURNAME Schreiber, Wilhelm Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clerk, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer, military pilot in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Bramsche
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1918
Place of death Ypres