Willy fish

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Willy Fisch (born September 12, 1886 in Berlin , † July 26, 1963 in Rosenheim ) was a Wehrmacht officer in the Air Force during World War II . Most recently he was Ministerial Director with the rank of General of the Aviators .

Life

Promotions

  • May 21, 1906 Lieutenant
  • January 27, 1907 Lieutenant with patent
  • 4th July 1914 First Lieutenant
  • August 18, 1915 Captain
  • September 30, 1919 Character as Major
  • October 1, 1919 Secret Government and Lecturing Council (Ministerialrat)
  • March 3, 1933 Ministerial Director
  • April 1, 1938 Major in the Reserve
  • Received the rank of General of the Aviators in September 1941

Fisch joined the Prussian Army on September 25, 1905 and was employed there until mid-May 1907 as a flag squire and, after his promotion to lieutenant, as a company officer in the No. 2 railway regiment. Fisch then held the same function from May 18, 1907 to September 16, 1909 with the No. 1 Railway Regiment. Subsequently, he was deployed in the No. 4 Telegraph Battalion until the beginning of March 1911. On March 9, 1911, he was posted to the Training and Research Institute for Military Aviation in Döberitz , where he remained until December 10, 1912. He was then transferred to Telegraph Battalion No. 1, where he again served as a company officer until the end of September 1913. In October 1913, Fisch became an adjutant for the third inspection of the telegraph troops. Shortly after the beginning of the First World War , he was assigned as a pilot to Aviation Department 29, where Fisch remained until September 5, 1915.

His service there was interrupted from May 8 to August 19, 1915, when he was temporarily working as an aeronautical radio officer at Army Air Park 7. He was then used from September 6, 1915 to September 30, 1916 as a leader in the radio engineering command during the inspection of the air troops, where he was promoted to first adjutant on October 1, 1916. Fisch held this position until September 24, 1917. He was then delegated to the War Ministry , where he served until the end of January 1919. After the war he was given leave of absence from February 1, 1919 to September 30, 1919 for service in the Reich Air Office and then retired from the army.

As an employee in the Reichsdienst, Fisch was a secret government and lecturer council from October 1, 1919 to January 31, 1933, later he was Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of Transport and at the same time held the function of representative of German aviation on the inter-allied aviation guarantee committee and at international aviation conferences.

On February 1, 1933, Fisch was reactivated for military service and joined the Luftwaffe, which was under construction. Here he was initially kept for special use until the beginning of March 1933 and then from March 3, 1933 to May 8, 1945, as Ministerial Director, Head of the General Aviation Office in the Reich Aviation Ministry, where he received the rank of General of the Aviators in September 1941. During his service, he found short-term use from April 27 to July 14, 1942 as a reserve officer in the staff of the Air District Command Belgium-Northern France . At the end of the war, Fisch became a prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1947.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl Friedrich Hildebrandt: The Generals of the Air Force 1935-1945. Band: Habermehl-Nuber. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1991, ISBN 3-7648-1701-1 , p. 286f