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When did Hptm Paul-Werner Hozzel take command of I./StG1, circa 9.39?
Hello,
Am in the process of sorting out the leadership of I./StG 1 for the EoE Project, and am having trouble defining the command dates for Hptm. Paul-Werner Hozzel. Both Balke and Emmerling list him as the Kdr of I./StG1 as of 1 Sept. 1940. However, his RK bio and other sources suggest that he was StaKap of 1 Staffel until 19.10.1939 and then became Gr Kdr. Emmerling and the Luft Off Career Summ DB lists Oblt. Kurt Kuhlmey as 1 Staffel Kap during the Polish Campaign of 9.39.
Some sources say that Hozzel was the "Acting" Gr. Kdr. of I./StG1 at the beginning of the war, which would mean that Kuhlmey was "Acting" StaKap of 1 Staffel until Hozzel's appointment was made permanent (on 19.10.39?). The actual Gr Kdr of I./StG1 was supposed to be Hptm? Kurt Rentzsch from 1.5.39 to 19.10.39. If Hozzel was "Acting" Gr Kdr on 1.9.39, where was Rentzsch and what happened to him? The LOCS DB for him lists two possible spellings for his name and says that as an Oblt. he was StaKap of 3./KG2 until he was killed in an accident on 5.8.39. This doesn't seem like the same officer. Was another person with this name the Gr Kdr of I./StG1 during the summer of 1939?
Who knows how to sort this all out?
Regards,
Larry Hickey
EoE Project Coordinator
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