Paul Deichmann

Paul Deichmann ( born August 27, 1898 in Fulda, † January 10, 1981 in Hamburg ) was a German officer, last Luftwaffe General in World War II.

Life

Deichmann occurred on 29 March 1916 as a cadet in the German army. Initially in the infantry, he joined in 1917 as an observer to the Air Force. After the end of World War II, he was transferred to the Army in 1920, where he was first employed as a platoon commander in the Infantry Regiment 3. On October 31, 1928, he officially retired from from the Reichswehr to be working at the secret operated by the Reichswehr training airbase near the Russian city of Lipetsk to 1931. In April 1931 he returned to Germany and was reactivated in the Reichswehr as a company commander. From October 1933 Deichmann initially worked in the Ministry of Aviation, before he moved to the newly established Air Force on 1 April 1934.

At the beginning of World War II, he served as Chief of Staff to the Chief of the Air Force training system in the Ministry of Aviation. June 20th, 1940, he was chief of staff of II Air Corps.

On March 26, 1944 awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, made ​​on May 20, 1944, promoted to lieutenant general. Towards the end of the war he took over command of the Air Force Command 4 and was promoted on 20 April 1945 to General der Flieger.

From June 15, 1945 Deichmann was in American captivity, from which he was released on 22 December 1947.

In the 1950s, he developed a number of studies for the USAF on the German Air Force.

Awards

  • Iron Cross (1914 ) II and I. Class
  • Prussian plane spotters badge
  • Hanseatic Cross Hamburg
  • Wound Badge (1918 ) in Black
  • Wehrmacht Long Service Award IV to class I.
  • Clasp to the Iron Cross Second Class and I.
  • German Cross in Gold on April 20, 1942
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on March 26, 1944

Works

  • The boss in the background. Life as a soldier of the Prussian army to the Bundeswehr Stalling 1979, ISBN 3797913583
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