Karl Gallwitz [SEP] conflict
Karl Gallwitz
Leutnant Karl Gallwitz was a World War I flying ace credited with ten aerial victories.
Early life.
Karl Gallwitz was born in Sigmaringen, the German Empire, in 1895. He visited the Gymnasium-school in Nordhausen.
Aerial service.
Gallwitz originally flew a Roland D.III for artillery cooperation units on the Russian Front, shooting down two observation balloons with FA 37, before a brief assignment to Jasta 29. On 24 August 1917, he joined Jasta Boelcke in France. He scored three times
(von Eichhorn's Chief of Staff)
- 09.1917 10. Armee (von Eichhorn's Chief of Staff) (concurrent with above)
- 07.1918 "Generalleutnant"
- 11.1918 Heeresgruppe Gallwitz - Verdun (von Gallwitz' Chief of Staff)
- 12.1918 38. Infanterie-Division (Commander)
Literature.
- Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand/Christian Zweng Die Ritter des Ordens Pour le Mérite 1740-1918;
- Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand/Christian Zweng Die Ritter des Ordens Pour le Mérite des I.