German Ace Questions: L-M

[Frank_Olynyk]

Posts in this series:

A-B: 13 posts, which I will re-edit into a single post (someday)
Blume to von Busse
C-D-E
F-G
H
I-J-K
L-M
N-O-P-Q
R
S
T-V-W-Z

It's a hat trick!

130 - Helmuth Lange
Helmuth Lange is credited with 9 victories with Jasta 26. I have no information on his date and place of birth or death.

131 - xx Leicht
Leicht (full name unknown) is credited with 4 victories with Jasta 5. I have no information on his date and place of birth or death, or even his first name.

132 - Hermann Leptien
Hermann Leptien is credited with 7 victories with Jasta 21 and 63. I have no information on his date and place of birth or death.

133 - Wilhelm Leusch
Wilhelm Leusch is credited with 5 victories with Jasta 19. He was killed in a flying accident, in a glider. Does anyone know the type and registration?

134 - Otto Löffler
Otto Löffler is credited with 15 victories with Jasta B. I have no information on his date and place of birth or death.

135 - Fritz Loerzer
Fritz Loerzer is credited with 11 victories with Jasta 6, 26 and 63. I have no information on his place of death.

136 - Reinhold Lüdecke
Reinhold Lüdecke is credited with 4 victories with Fla(A) 227 and Jasta 81. I have no information about his date and place of death.

137 - Ludwig Luer
Ludwig Luer is credited with 6 victories with Jasta 27 and 62. I have no information about his date and place of birth or death.

138 - Albert Josef Lux
Albert Josef Lux is credited with 7 victories with Jasta 27. I have no information on his date and place of death.

139 - Herbert Mahn
Herbert Mahn is credited with 9 victories with Jasta 72. I have no information on his date and place of birth or death.

140 - Karl Maletzky
Karl Maletzky is credited with 4 victories with Jasta 50. I have no information on his date and place of death.

141 - Friedrich Mallinckrodt
Friedrich Mallinckrodt is credited with 6 victories with Jasta 10 and 20. I have no information on his date and place of death, other than he is presumed to have died in the 1940s.

142 - Hans Hennrich Marwede
Hans Hennrich Marwede is credited with 5 victories with Jasta 67. I have no information on his date and place of death.

143 - Heinrich Maushake
Heinrich Maushake is credited with 6 victories with Jasta 4. I have no information on his date and place of birth, other than he was supposedly born in 1894, nor do I know his place of death.

144 - Karl Menckhoff
Karl Menckhoff is credited with 39 victories with Jasta 3 and 72. I have no information on his date and place of death, other than it was presumably in 1948 in Switzerland.

145 - Christel Mesch
Christel Mesch is credited with 13 victories with an unknown unit (first victory, no information at all) and Jasta 26. I have no information on his date and place of birth or death, other than he was supposedly KIA in the Baltic in 1919 (what unit?).

146 - Carlos Meyer Baldó – found on the Internet.

147 - Erich Meyer
Erich Meyer is credited with 5 victories with Jasta 45. I have no information on his date and place of death.

148 - Erich Mix
Erich Mix is credited with 2 victories in WW1 in Jasta 54, and additional victories in WW2 (I have to track down the actual number). I have no information on his place of birth, and none on his date and place of death, other than it presumably occured in 1971 (I will have to check Jagerblatt).

149 - Eberhardt Mohnicke
Eberhardt Mohnicke is credited with 9 victories with Kagohl 2 (Kasta and date unknown) and Jasta 11. I have no information on his place of death (was it aviation related?).

150 - Kurt Monnington
Kurt Monnington is credited with 8 victories with Jasta 18. I have no information about his date and place of death.

151 - Alfred Müller
Alfred Müller is credited with 3 victories with Jasta 39, and 2 more in WW2. I have no information on his date and place of birth or death.

152 - Hans Müller
Hans Müller is credited with 12 victories with Jasta 15 and 18. I have no information on his date of death, other than it was in 1964 in Munich (information from an earlier thread on The Aerodrome).

Hopefully someone has answers to some of these questions.

Frank.

[VtwinVince]

Frank, I have Dr. Erich Mix as scoring 13 vics in WW2 with JG 2 and 1, and Alfred Mueller as getting 3 vics WW2 with 4\JG 3 as follows: Morane on 21.5.40, Curtiss and Lysander on 5.6.40.

[Frank_Olynyk]

VtwinVince,
I think the number 13 for Erich Mix is part of the folklore of WW2. According to the Jagdfliegerverbände volumes Mix had two victories with Stab I./JG 53 in the Phoney War period; one as Gruppenkommandeure of III./JG 2 during the French campaign; and a fourth during the Battle of Britain. He was relieved on Sept 23, 1940.

The claims for Alfred Müller with 4./JG 3 are also listed in Teil 3 of the Jagdfliegerverände series.

Frank.

[rammjaeger]

Wilhelm Leusch crashed from 400 m altitude with the so-called "Weltensegler" - a glider monoplane without tail constructed by Dr. Friedrich Wenk. That happened during the second Rhön-Wettbewerb on 14. August 1921.
The glider was a so-called "Knickflügelflugzeug". Don´t know the fitting English term but I imagine the wings looked like the wings of the Stuka.

[Immo_Frese]

Frank,

Albert Lux died in 1954. I do not have the exact date but I believe he died in Strasbourg/Alsace.

Immo

[fliegertruppe]

Hi Frank,

new information for you.
Today I became this from the Stadtarchiv Wiesbaden:

Dr. iur. Erich Otto Friedrich Mix

* 27.6.1898 in Labuhnken (Westpreußen), ev.
+ 9.4.1971 in Wiesbaden

verheiratet 12.11.1923 mit Erna Thiem (1902-1986)

Volksschule (1904-1908) und seit 1908 Humanistisches Gymnasium Preußisch Stargard,
November 1916 Notabitur
20.11.1916-13.12.1918 Teilnahme am Ersten Weltkrieg als Infanterist und dann als Jagdflieger, zuletzt Leutnant
1919-1921 Studium der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaften in Berlin und Greifswald,
13.5.1921 Promotion, Juni 1921 Referendarexamen
15.7.1921-14.1.1922 Referendar beim Amtsgericht Greifswald,
seit 28.1.1922 Regierungsreferendar in Stettin
1923 Vertretung von durch die Besatzung ausgewiesenen Verwaltungsbeamten im Ruhrgebiet
August 1923 Verhaftung und Ausweisung durch die französische Besatzungsmacht
April 1924 Große Staatsprüfung und Regierungsassessor
1924-1925 Tätigkeit beim Landratsamt des Kreises Greifenhagen,
1925 bei den Regierungen Stettin und Stralsund,
1925-1927 beim Bezirksausschuß in Frankfurt a.O.

1.10.1927-31.3.1931 besoldeter Stadtrat in Mühlhausen (Thüringen)

1.4.1931-31.10.1933 Bürgermeister (Erster Beigeordneter) in Stolp (Pommern), dort nach der Machtübertragung an Hitler faktisch Stadtoberhaupt nach der Entlassung des Oberbürgermeisters

1.11.1933-31.8.1934 Bürgermeister (Erster Beigeordneter) in Stettin
1.9.1934-31.3.1937 Oberbürgermeister von Tilsit
1.4.1937-16.4.1945 Oberbürgermeister von Wiesbaden

September 1939 bis Mai 1945 Teilnahme am Zweiten Weltkrieg als Luftwaffenoffizier, zuletzt Oberst und Jagdfliegerkommandeur
Mai 1945 bis März 1946 Kriegsgefangenschaft und Internierung

1949-1954 Gutachter-Tätigkeit (freier Mitarbeiter) u.a. beim Rechtsamt der Stadt Wiesbaden
29.5.1952-24.2.1954 Mitglied der Wiesbadener Stadtverordnetenversammlung (FDP),
1.10.1953-24.2.1954 Stadtverordnetenvorsteher
25.2.1954-25.2.1960 Oberbürgermeister von Wiesbaden

1958-1966 Mitglied des Hessischen Landtags, Juni 1960 bis November 1962 Vorsitzender der FDP-Landtagsfraktion, 1962-1966 Vizepräsident des Landtags

zeitweise Kreisvorsitzender des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes, zeitweise im Vorstand des Hessischen Städteverbandes

1.10.1932 Eintritt in die NSDAP,
Juni 1933 Kreis- und Januar 1934 Gaurichter der NSDAP;
1.11.1933 Eintritt in die SS,
6.4.1934 Austritt,
20.4.1939 Wiedereintritt und SS-Obersturmbannführer,
1.4.1944 SS-Standartenführer;
ab Oktober 1934 Kreisamtsleiter der NSDAP in Tilsit und dann in Wiesbaden, 1.3.1939-1943 Gauamtsleiter für Kommunalpolitik im Gau Hessen-Nassau, zugleich Vorsitzender der Landesdienststelle Hessen/Hessen-Nassau des Deutschen Gemeindetages

Eisernes Kreuz I und II,
1940 Ehrenpokal der Luftwaffe,
Rotkreuz-Ehrenzeichnen,
Treudienstehrenzeichen;
1960 Großes Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland;
1968 Goldene Plakette der Stadt Wiesbaden

Reinhard