Jo hannes trautloft biography

Otto Hans "Hannes" Trautloft (3 March 1912 – 12 January 1995) was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
Johannes "Hannes" Trautloft (3 March 1912 - 11 January 1995) was a German World War II fighter ace who served in the Luftwaffe from 1932 until the end of the.
Trautloft, Johannes “Hannes”, born 03-03-1912 in Groß-Obringen, near Weimar in Thüringen, began his pilot training on 07-04-1931.

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Hannes Trautloft

German aviator (1912–1995)

Otto Hans "Hannes" Trautloft (3 March 1912 – 12 January 1995) was a German Luftwaffemilitary aviator during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, and general in the postwar German Air Force. As a fighter ace, he is credited with 58 enemy aircraft shot down, including 5 in Spain, 8 on the Western Front and 45 on the Eastern Front of World War II.

Born in Großobringen, Trautloft volunteered for military service in the Reichsheer of the Weimar Republic in 1931. In parallel, he was accepted for flight training with the Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule, a covert military-training organization, and at the Lipetsk fighter-pilot school. Following flight training, he served with Jagdgeschwader 134 "Horst Wessel" (JG 134—134th Fighter Wing) and was one of the first German volunteers to fight in the Spanish Civil War. From August to December 1936, he claimed five aerial victories. For his service in Spain he was awarded the Spanish Cross in Gold with Swords.

Following his service in Spain, Trautloft held various command positio

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Luftwaffe Colonel and fighter ace Johannes Trautloft was not the member of the German Resistance in the sense of taking part in the 20 July, 1944 plot. Yet his story very much belongs to this page, for resistance against Hitler’s regime took several shapes and forms, and what could have been more noble than rescuing those condemned to death. Trautloft was credited with 58 victories in 560 missions during WWII, and perhaps not many of his opponents in the air thought that he would have a key role in saving the lives of 168 Allied aviators from the hands of SS.

On 20 August 1944, a group of captured Allied airmen walked through the gates of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Ripped off of their legal PoW status, they received a particularly harsh treatment in the camp – scarce food, no shelter for the night and no shoes to wear. The most senior officer among them was Squadron Leader Phil Lamason, who tried to negotiate with the camp leader to arrange a transfer for the men to a prisoner of war camp. When his request was denied, Lamason smuggled a note to a Russian prisoner who h

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Trautloft, Johannes “Hannes”, born 03-03-1912 in Groß-Obringen, near Weimar in Thüringen, began his pilot training on 07-04-1931, at the Deutsche Verkehrfliegerschule, German Air Transport School, at Schleißheim. The course Hannes and 29 other trainees attended was called Kameradschaft 31, abbreviated “K 31”. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Trautloft was one of six pilots, of Hermann Göring’s (did you know) Luftwaffe, sent aboard the Ursaramo to Cadiz to secretly aid GeneralBahamond Franco. With them, the pilots had six crated Heinkel He 51 biplane fighters. Trautloft had the green heart symbolizing Thüringen painted on his plane. This symbol would later be the symbol of Jagdgeschwader 4 once he assumed command. Following his service in Spain, Trautloft held various Staffelkapitän positions, and at the outbreak of World War II on 01-09-1939 he was the commander of 2./Jagdgeschwader 77, nickname “Herz As” . The pilots of JG 77 saw plenty of action; they were ultimately responsible for 4.046 victories and 86 aces with