Industrie Schutz Staffel Focke Wulf
 

Sorted out the later Dr Alfred Price's photos, I have found a photo of Walter Nowotny with pilots from this staffel named as Hans Kampfmeier (+), Werner Finke (+), Rolf Mondry and Alfred Motsch. Anyone know any more about them and their successes or not?

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Hi Chris,
Rolf Mondry sounds familiar from Don Caldwell's works on JG 26

Nick

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That was Georg Mondry of 7 and then 5./JG 26 killed 31 May 1943

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Touche...

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These guys were Focke Wulf Test pilots. There is a good write up on these pilots in the book "Focke Wulf Ta-152" by Dietmar Harman.

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So does it give fates or kills for them?

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1942-04-05, 7./JG 26, Fw 190 A-1, 110084, 8 weiße, Gravelines, 20 km ostnordöstlich Calais
Flugzeugführer Fw Mondry, Rolf, verletzt
Notlandung infolge Motorstörung. Bruch 100 %.

1944-03-08, Focke-Wulf-Flugzeugwerke Cottbus, Fw 190, Langenhagen
Flugzeugführer Ofw Mondry, Rolf, verletzt
Unbekannt. Bruch ? %.

1944-03-08, Focke-Wulf-Flugzeugwerke Langenhagen, Fw 190 A-5/U10, 150861, BP+LY, Fl.Pl. Hannover-Langenhagen
Flugzeugführer Ofw Kampmeier, Hans, verletzt
Bruchlandung infolge Bordwaffenbeschuß. Bruch 60 %.

1943-10-09, Focke-Wulf-Flugzeugwerke Langenhagen, Fw 190 A-4, 145631, 3 schw, Fl.Pl. Helgoland
Flugzeugführer Ofw Motsch, Alfred, verletzt
Überschlag bei Landung infolge technischer Mängel. Bruch 70 %.

Matti

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Hello Chris,

some additional informations about the pilots of the Industrieschutzstaffel Focke-Wulf Bremen:

Ofw Hans Kampmeier
One victory (B-17) on 28 July 1943. He survived the war.

Werner Finke
He died in a landing accident, date not known to me.

Ofw Rolf Mondry
One victory (B-17) on 8 October 1943, flying Fw 190 A-4 WNr. 5631 black 3.
On 9 March 1944 – attack of the 8th USAAF against airfield Langenhagen – he was wounded on the ground and lost one arm.

Sources:
JFV Vol.10/III
Investigations of Dietmar Hermann / JET & PROP 2/2006.

Regards
Leo

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Thanks Matti but according to Caldwell, that Mondry was Georg and the photo of him in the JG 26 War Diary bears no resemblance to the photo I have of him. Therefore the chap wounded 8 or 9 Mar 44 appears to match. The photo though does note that Kampmeier/Kampfmeier and Finke were killed. Nowotny is wearing the Schwerter so that dates the photo as late Summer 1943

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According to NVMs Lt Georg Mondry, * 15 Dec 1921, of 5./JG 26 was killed on 31 May, 1943.
Fw Rolf Mondry, * 09 Dec 1917, of 7./JG 26 was wounded on 05 April, 1942 and again on 08 March 1944.
So, there were two Mondrys in JG 26.


No info found on their fate.


Matti



Matti

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Matti: Thanks for this. Looking at this, it would appear that Don Caldwell has got things wrong. Uffz Mondry was in 7./JG 26 in 1941 getting his first kill 16 Feb 41. The photos in his book is not the same as the photo I have of Mondry (he appears quite tall whilst in my photo is a good head shorter than everyone else). He then says Fw Georg Mondry was injured 5 April 1942 still with 7 Staffel. He then says on 31 May 43, Lt Rolf-Georg Mondry of 5./JG 26 was killed! VDK say Georg was killed near Mariakirche on 31 May 43. So Uffz Rolf Mondry 7 Staffel Lt Georg Mondry 5 Staffel

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Also to follow this through with regard to Caldwell's mistake

There is a an Uffz Mondry making three claims with 7./JG 26 over Malta and Libya. I take it that this is now Rolf Mondry and not Georg as per Caldwell Vol 1

Cheers
Stig

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Yes, that is the Mondry that sprang to mind when I read Chris' initial post. Now I realise we are actually talking about two separate pilots with the same unusual surname

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Well Nick

I also thought it was a strange co-incidence, so Caldwell's mistake is very explainable.
But then I did a "Nick Beale", I checked the yellow pages for Germany, and was quite surprised to see that there are plenty of Mondrys even today in Germany. I was not able to count how many, but since a constant scrolling only produced more and more, I gave up.:)

So perhaps the name Mondry was not all that rare after all during the war?

Also forgot to say thanks to Matti for putting this quite odd fact on our maps.

Cheers
Stig