Franz Novak [SEP] place of birth
Franz Novak
Franz Novak (10 January 1913 in Wolfsberg, Carinthia – 21 October 1983 in Langenzersdorf) was an Austrian SS-"Hauptsturmführer". Novak was Adolf Eichmann's railroad and transportation timetable expert; he coordinated the railroad deportation of European Jews to concentration and extermination camps.
Biography.
Franz Novak left school in 1928 and began an apprenticeship in printing in Wolfsberg. He printed the "Unterkärntner Nachrichten", an anti-semitic local newspaper, close to the Greater German People's Party. In October 1929, he became
the other, Curtis paired with observer Second Lieutenant H Munro later that day. They shot an Albatros D.V down in flames off Westende, West Flanders. Their victim is believed by some to have been Leutnant Franz Pernet of Jasta Boelcke. Pernet was the stepson of General Erich Ludendorff. Curtis had his fourteenth aerial victory on 14 September 1917 when his Bristol F.2b (A7224), with Uniacke as observer, defeated an Albatros D.V, destroying it over Ghistelles. His final triumph took place on 17 Sep 1917 when, with Uniacke