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Re: Luftwaffe Personnel Post War Employment
And what about Julius Meimberg, the last Gruppenkommandeur of II./JG 53 ?
Having no other professional education than being a fighter pilot with the then no longer existing Luftwaffe he started off as a farm worker, driving clumsy tractors instead of flying his '109s. He then invented a highly efficient - and if I got it right still widely used - method of spinning yarn but unfortunately was legally ill advised as far as the appropriate patent cover was concernend and was thus deprived of the otherwise substantial earings his invention brought forward. Still not at the end of his means he founded a very successful net of travel agencies in and around his home town Münster / Westf.
He was not only a remarkable fighter pilot but still is an outstanding character.
Regards
Jochen Prien
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