Hauptmann Heinz Bollhorn
 

I'm looking for any info (career, other units, etc.) on Hauptmann Heinz Bollhorn (DOB 7 September 1913, Altona), possibly 2./KG66's last Staffelkapitän.

Hptm. Bollhorn was mentioned as Vermisst/Missing in Action since April 1945 on Vermisstenbildliste LH622 of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - Suchdienst München. According to info I have he could have crashed in an American AAA site while attacking a pontoon bridge in the Magdeburg - Schönebeck a.d. Elbe area on the 14th of April 1945.

Questions I have:

1. Is he still considered missing or does he have a known grave by now?
2. Does anybody know if the following persons, who are also MIA around that time, were part of his crew:
   1. Franz Lennartz (DOB 30 August 1920, Alsdorf)
   2. Gerhard Losse (DOB 15 January 1921, Reideburg)
   3. Karl Walter Spruck (DOB 26 December 1918, Mannheim)

Thanks in advance,

Marcel

Re: Hauptmann Heinz Bollhorn
 

All we have on this guy is:

BOLLHORN, Heinz.
(DOB: 07.09.13 in Hildesheim).
12.41 in 3.(F)/Aufkl.Gr. 123 (to 06.43).
01.04.42 promo to Hptm.
23.11.42 awarded Ehrenpokal.
13.03.43 Hptm., in 3.(F)/Aufkl.Gr. 123 (to 01.05.43).
01.05.43 ordered trf to Ob.d.L. pool (Sch.Etat).


We have nothing about the other three guys, probably due to low rank.
Checking the Kracker Archive, there is nothing about Bollhorn or the others.

There was a book published about KG 6 a few years ago that you might try:

Horn, Jan. Wir flogen gen Westen: Die Chronik des Kampfgeschwaders 6 der deutschen Luftwaffe 1941-1945 (Dresden: Selbstverlag Jan Horn, 2004).

I don’t have a copy.


Good luck!

HLdZ
DGS

Re: Hauptmann Heinz Bollhorn
 

Hi Doug,

Thanks for your help. Interesting to see he had an Aufklärer background! My information so far seems to suggest that Bollhorn came to I./KG66 (very) late in 1944, so that leaves a gap of almost 1.5 years unaccounted for....

I have both volumes of Horn's KG6 unit history, but unfortunately there's nothing on Bollhorn in there either.

Wishing you a very Happy New Year,

Marcel

Re: Hauptmann Heinz Bollhorn
 

Marcel,

and when can we expect a Unit History on KG 66.....:-))....???

Please drop me an email concerning Bollhorn.

John

Re: Hauptmann Heinz Bollhorn
 

Gerhard Losse is was my grandfather. have you any information about him?

Re: Hauptmann Heinz Bollhorn
 

my grandmother (Anneliese Losse) would heard from people in Schönebeck, that maybe 2 guys from the crew could save its life with parachuts. they will came into american war captivity and later into russian captivity. because they was members of the Legion Condor before they came to Sibiria. .... thats the information from my grandmother

Re: Hauptmann Heinz Bollhorn
 

Dear Beaverpatrol,

Thank you very much for this information. Please check your email!

Best regards,

Marcel

Re: Hauptmann Heinz Bollhorn
 

perhaps it support your work

Re: Hauptmann Heinz Bollhorn
 

It does! Will investigate this. Thanks very much!

Best regards,

Marcel

Re: Hauptmann Heinz Bollhorn
 

Just for curiosity and interest:
a) Which was the werknummer of this machine and its codes?
b) Ju 188 A or Ju 88 S?

A.

Re: Hauptmann Heinz Bollhorn
 

Trouble is Adriano nobody knows for sure his unit let alone aircraft or aircraft details!

Re: Hauptmann Heinz Bollhorn
 

Hi Adriano,

Unfortunately, my losses list based on the WASt ends around 11 April 1945...Late losses such as Hauptmann Bollhorn occurred during the last days of a collapsing Reich and were likely never recorded properly...

So, no idea about WNr. or Kennzeichen (apart from "Z6" i.e. I./KG66 possibly). Based on the aircraft of the eyewitnesses (in the same Staffel), Bollhorn's machine could have been a Ju 188 D-3.

Best regards,

Marcel

Re: Hauptmann Heinz Bollhorn
 

Chris and Marcel,

Thanks for the information.

But, what about the Intelligence Reports, on the Allied side? If an AAA Battery claimed the machine, they must have submitted a report...though am not sure if the wreckage was found or discovered. Usually, (at least in the UK in 1940 and later) they would have sent Intelligence "guys" to check the wreckage and try to find identities, etc...but am not sure if by 1945 they still were doing this.

Was the wreckage ever found? This could be interesting to the grandson of Uffz. Losse...
or the relatives of Hptm Bollhorn either.

Sad story....weeks by the end of the war...

A.

Re: Hauptmann Heinz Bollhorn
 

Unlikely that the Allies would have had the time or interest for intelligence reports at that time and as to the unit responsible, that too will be hard (but not impossible) to determine