[Stig Jarlevik]

Guys

To try and keep some kind of perspective of this topic, may I remind everyone that NSFK was formed on April 17th,1937 with the name change (or incorporation) of the civil DLV. At least up to the outbreak of war the NSFK was the organization in Germany handling the civilian flying interest, such as all kind of "sports" flying, gliding training and so on. It simply was a new way for the German totalitarian regime at the time to gain control of every aspect of the German Nation. It was a perfect way of indoctrinating youth both into Nazi ideas and at the same time take care of their flying interests.

I believe their main activity during the war was to take care of most (if not all) gliding activities in Germany, thus making an earlier use of young men who wanted to become pilots, but who were not quite at the correct age yet to start military training.

Needless to say the organisation needed teachers, and to me it is not surprising many (most?) were over aged for general service within the regular Luftwaffe.

Every organization always creates it's "oddities", which seems to be the case with our first man. The second case seems to me to be an individual who trained in the NSFK and later went over to the regular Luftwaffe. Nothing odd or strange with that. I doubt the wartime NSFK was crawling with "aces" capable of borrowing battle planes at will. The really interesting part with Strübing is how and where he got the aeroplanes to score his victories with.

Cheers
Stig