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Date Posted: 09:58:55 04/20/02 Sat
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Johan R
's message, "Lt.z.S. Wolfram Eisenlohr" on 05:07:50 01/28/02 Mon
General-Ingenieur Dipl. Ing. Wolfram Eisenlohr (Luftwaffe)
Born: 25 February 1893, Freiburg / Breisgau
Died: 5 January 1991, Wenheim
Promotions:
• Leutnant zur See der Reserve: 16 September 1918
• Oberleutnant der Reserve: 1 December 1936
• Hauptmann der Reserve: 1 March 1939 (RDA 1 September 1939)
• Flieger-Oberstabsingenieur: 1 August 1936
• Flieger-Hauptstabsingenieur: 1 March 1937
• Oberst-Ingenieur: 1 July 1940
• General-Ingenieur: 1 November 1941
Commands & Assignments:
• 1 April 1914: Entered the Imperial German Navy (Reserve).
• 1 April 1914-September 1915: Training aboard the pre-dreadnought battleship "Wittelsbach."
• September 1915-November 1915: Adjutant of the Libau Harbor Captain.
• November 1915-17 May 1916: Aboard the pre-dreadnought battleship "Wittelsbach."
• 18 May 1916-30 September 1916: Training as a Naval Aircraft Observer in the I. Seeflieger-Abteilung [Naval Flying Detachment] at Stralsund and Wiek on Rügen Island.
• 1 October 1916-May 1917: Aerial Observer and, at the same time, pilot training at the Apenrade Naval Air Station.
• May 1917-31 December 1917: Aerial Observer, Pilot, Carrier Pigeon Officer and Radio Officer at the Windau Naval Air Station. [On 22 August 1917, Eisenlohr and his pilot, Flugobermaat Gruber, were flying in one of three Friedrichshafen FF.41a seaplanes that attacked the stranded Russian torpedo boat destroyer "Stroini." The ship had run aground west of Zerel in the Baltic Sea and the Russians were trying to refloat her. After the first seaplane dropped its bombs without effect, Eisenlohr released all eight of his 60-kilogram bombs in a single pass. His fifth bomb struck the ship’s bridge forcing the Russians to abandon all further salvage efforts. He later received the Navy Ehrenpreis for this action. On 17 October 1917, Eisenlohr came across a drifting lifeboat carrying a Russian naval officer and seven seamen, perhaps from the Russian pre-dreadnought battleship "Slava" sunk earlier that day. Eisenlohr induced the Russians to surrender, landed his seaplane alongside them, and tossed them a towline. After taxing on the water for almost an hour with the boat in tow, Eisenlohr turned his prisoners over to the crew of the German light cruiser "Augsburg."]
• 1 January 1918-28 February 1918: Leader of the Observer School at Wiek on Rügen Island.
• 1 March 1918-June 1918: Adjutant of the Staff Officer of the I. Seeflieger-Abteilung.
• June 1918-31 December 1918: Leader of a test and performance section of the I. Seeflieger-Abteilung (training of aerial observers and testing new equipment).
• 31 December 1918: Separated from the Navy.
• 1 January 1926-31 March 1933: Employed by the Navy as an Aircraft Observer Consultant in the department for the clandestine reconstruction of a naval air force in the Navy Command.
• 1 April 1933-31 March 1934: Entered Luftwaffe service as a Consultant in the Reich Air Ministry.
• 1 April 1934-31 December 1937: Group Leader of Aircraft Drive Work at the Luftwaffe Testing Center at Rechlin.
• 1 January 1938-31 January 1944: Leader of the Drive Works and Accessories Department in the Technical Office of the Reich Air Ministry.
• 30 April 1944: Retired from Luftwaffe service.
• 1 May 1944-30 June 1945: Technical Director of the Air Propeller Construction Department of the Vereinigten Deutschen Mettalwerke (VDM).
• 6 January 1946-17 January 1947: In American internment.
Decorations & Awards:
• Prussian Iron Cross, 1st Class (1914)
• Prussian Iron Cross, 2nd Class (1914)
• War Merit Cross, 1st Class with Swords
• War Merit Cross, 2nd Class with Swords
• Bavarian Military Merit Cross, 2nd Class with Swords
• Baden Silver Merit Medal on the Ribbon of the Military Karl Friedrich Merit Medal
• Cross of Honor for Combatants 1914-1918
• German Navy Observer’s Badge – World War I award
• German Navy Ehrenpreis [Honor Prize]: Awarded for his successful aerial attack on the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Stroini on 22 August 1917.
Notes:
• All six of the Eisenlohr brothers served in the German military during World War I—three in the Navy and three in the Army. Wolfram’s brother Alarich was killed in action when his submarine, the UB 90, was sunk by the British submarine L-12 off Denmark on 16 October 1918.
• The Stroini was one of ten Dyelni Class torpedo boat destroyers launched between 1904-1906. These ships displaced 350 tons and were armed with two 4-inch cannons, two machineguns, and two 18-inch torpedo tubes and could carry 14 mines. With a crew complement of 64, the Dyelni Class could achieve a maximum speed of 26 knots. Dimensions (in feet – length, beam, draft): 210 x 21 x 6 ½.
SOURCES: Hildebrand, Karl-Friedrich. "Die Generale der Deutschen Luftwaffe, 1935-1945, Band 1 (Abernetty-v. Gyldenfeldt), 1935-1945." Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, Germany, 1990; O’Connor, Neal W. "Aviation Awards of Imperial Germany in World War I and the Men Who Earned Them – Volume VI: The Aviation Awards of the Grand Duchies of Baden and Oldenburg." Foundation of Aviation World War I, Princeton, New Jersey, 1999; Jane's Fighting Ships of WWI.
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