General Dörstling

[Michal]

Hello,

does somebody have any information about "general Dörstling"? It should be some AAA Commander or HQ Officer in Luftwaffe.

Thanks for help

[Chris Goss]

Gen Egon Doerstling (born 28 Jan 90, died 9 Nov 65) was Komm Gen u Bfh im Luftgau XVII in Jan 45

[Doug Stankey]

From our database of 25,000 Luftwaffe officer career histories, we have the following on this fellow:

DOERSTLING, Egon. (i.G.).
(DOB: 28.01.90 in Chemnitz).
01.05.18 awarded Ritterkreuz des königlich sächsischen Militär-St.Heinrichs-Ordens.
25.11.32 certified fluent in English.
01.10.33 trf to the Luftwaffe from the Heer with a rank of Maj. and appt Gruppenleiter in JFS Schleissheim and concurrently Kdt. Fl.H. Schleissheim.
01.04.34 promo to Obstlt.
01.01.35 appt Abt.chef LA II in RLM.
01.04.36 promo to Oberst; trf into the Generalstab d.Lw. (did not attend the Luftkriegsakademie) and appt Chef des 2. Abt. im Generalstab d.Lw.
01.10.37 appt Kommodore KG 253.
01.07.38 appt chef d. Nachschubamt, renamed in Chef d. Nachschubwesens d.Lw./RLM.
01.01.39 promo to Gen.Maj.
01.12.40 promo to Gen.Lt.
24.03.42 removed from the Lw.-Generalstabs-Korps.
01.06.42 promo to Gen.d.Fl.
07.08.43 appt Kommandierender Gen.u. Bef. Luftgaukdo. Holland.
01.01.44 assigned to Führerreserve OKL.
28.02.44 appt kommandierender Gen. u. Bef. im Luftgau XVIII Wien (to 21.04.45).
22.12.47 released.
†09.11.65 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.


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LdZ
DGS