List of World War I flying aces from Germany
This is a complete list of World War I flying aces from the German Empire.
Aces were listed after verifying the date and location of combat, and the foe vanquished, for every victory accredited by an aviator's home air service. Aces awarded honors and thus shown to be notable are linked to their biographies.
Please supply cites for any and all added material. Present citing is through top 20 aces, with a comprehensive citing at list's end.
Manfred von Richthofen[1]
Ernst Udet[2]
Werner Voss[5]
Rudolf Berthold[7]
Bruno Loerzer[8]
Oswald Boelcke[10]
Lothar von Richthofen[12]
Heinrich Gontermann[13]
Carl Menckhoff[14]
Karl Bolle[15]
Julius Buckler[16]
Eduard Ritter von Schleich[20]
Heinrich Bongartz
Kurt Wolff (aviator)
Theodor Osterkamp
Gotthard Sachsenberg
Carl Degelow
Robert Ritter von Greim
Hans Kirschstein
Adolf Ritter von Tutschek
Eduard Ritter von Dostler
Olivier Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay
Hans Martin Pippart
Hans von Adam
Friedrich T. Noltenius
Otto Kissenberth
Gerhard Fieseler
Kurt Wintgens
Hartmuth Baldamus
Karl Plauth
Franz Ray
Wilhelm Seitz
Albert Dossenbach
Albert Haussmann
Max Immelmann
Otto Löffler
Viktor von Pressentin von Rautter
Hans-Joachim Buddecke
Siegfried Büttner
Friedrich Christiansen
Christian Mesch
Otto Rosenfeld
Kurt Schönfelder
Theodor Cammann
Bertram Heinrich
Gerhard Hubrich
Max Kuhn
Renatus Theiller
Richard Wenzl
Friedrich Classen
Heinrich Drekman
Fritz Loerzer
Hans Nülle
Hugo Schäfer
Dietrich Averes
Martin Dehmisch
Karl Gallwitz
Paul Lotz
Max Ritter von Mulzer
Hans Schuez
Werner Steinhäuser
Paul Turck
Paul Wenzel
Konrad Brendle
Albert Dietlen
Otto Fitzner
Herbert Knappe
Egon Koepsch
Herbert Mahn
Eberhard Mohnicke
Hans Karl Müller
Karl Pech
Karl Schattauer
Paul Achilles
Karl Bohny
Aloys Freiherr von Brandenstein
Gunther Dobberke
Max Gossner
Fritz Kieckhäfer
Franz Kirchfeld
Arthur Korff
Fritz Krebs
Friedrich Poeschke
Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen
Claus Reimer
Richard Runge
Wilhelm Schwartz
Wilhelm Zorn
Gerhard Bassenge
Helmut Brünig
Julius Fichter
Gisbert-Wilhelm Groos
Georg Ritter von Hengl
Josef Hohly
Kurt Jacob
Karl Jentsch
Martin Johns
Christian Kairies
Emil Koch
Hans Körner
Herman Leptien
Albert Lux
Karl Mendel
Alfred Niederhoff
Richard Plange
Johann Pütz
Marat Schumm
Karl Treiber
Johannes Werner
Karl Arnold
Paul Bona
Moritz-Waldemar Bretschneider-Bodemer
Albin Bühl
Karl Deilman
Karl Engelfried
Friedrich Gille
Heinrich Haase
Albert Hets
Robert Hildebrandt
Erich Just
Otto Klaiber
Erich König
Herman Kunz
Alfred Lenz
Heinrich Maushake
Konrad Mettlich
Alfred Mohr
Werner Niethammer
Hans Oberlander
Rudolf Otto
Rudolf Rienau
Alfons Scheicher
Karl Schmückle
Edgar Scholtz
Wilhelm Schulz
Gunther Schuster
Heinrich Seywald
Erich Sonneck
Otto Splitgerber
Georg Staudacher
Kurt Student
Hermann Stutz
Heinrich Wessels
Siegfried Westphal
Hans Auer
Bernard Bartels
Rudolf Besel
Otto Bieleit
Eduard Blaas
Hans-Helmut von Boddien
Erich Bönisch
Gustav Borm
Hans Bowski
Herbert Boy
Otto von Breiten-Landenberg
Wilhelm Cymera
Johannes Gildemeister
Siegfried Gussmann
Kurt Haber
Friedrich Hengst
Werner Junck
Wilhelm Kohlbach
Johann Kopka
Heinrich Lorenz
Hans Marwede
Erich Meyer
Richard Rübe
Johann Schlimpen
Herbert Schroeder
Konrad Schwartz
Eugen Siempelkamp
Wilhelm Sommer
Karl Strünklenberg
Alwin Thurm
Oswald Traenkner
Gerold Tschentschel
Alfred Ulmer
Hans Viebig
Hasso von Wedel (aviator)
Ernst Wiessner
References[]
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 187–189.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 220–222.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 158–160.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 135–136.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 223–225.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 193–194.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 71–72.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 156–157.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 66–67.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 76–77.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 86–87.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 186–187.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 116.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 164-165.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 80.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 87–88.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 167–169.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 100-101.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 148.
- ^ Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 199–200.
- ^ Et cetera
- ^ Franks et al. 1993, pp. 55–235.
- ^ Aerodrome list at http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/index.php?pageNum_names=0&totalRows_names=393 Retrieved 3 December 2013.
Works cited[]
- Norman Franks, Frank W. Bailey, Russell Guest. Above the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps, 1914–1918. Grub Street, 1993. ISBN 0-948817-73-9, ISBN 978-0-948817-73-1.
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