Lt. Hans Kaiser & Lt. Hans Kaiser-Dieckfeld same person JG 77/JG 7?

[Ian Jewison]

I have a group of documents to Lt. Hans Kaiser.

According to Prien page 2263 he was wounded in aerial combat flying Bf 109 G-10 WNr 490438, on 14.1.1945 with 7/JG 77.

On page 2262 Lt. (Hans) Kaiser-Dieckhoff scored two victories on 14.1.1945 with 7/JG 77.

According to Foreman & Harvey Me 262 Combat Diary, Lt. Hans Kaiser-Dieckhoff is a confirmed Me 262 pilot with JG 7.

Lt. Hans Kaiser was transferred to 9/JG 7 on 5.4.1945!

Any info or assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Ian

[Matti Salonen]

Lt. Hans Kaiser-Dieckhoff from 7./JG 77 was wounded 14.1.1945 in Bf 109 G-10, WNr. 490438.

Matti

[Ian Jewison]

Thanks Matti,

oops I noticed a typo in the name in the title of this thread....

However, I am trying to determine if there were two Lt. Hans Kaiser with similar names or they are the same person! Both were with 7/JG 77 in 1945 and ended up with JG 7!

Prien in that aspect does not mention a Lt. Hans Kaiser then, only Lt. Hans Kaiser-Dieckhoff! Of which he is only mentioned on the 14th of January 1945.

/Ian

[Ian Jewison]

Took some time but I have cracked it......

Hans Friedrich Kaiser, born 17.5.1911 in Exdorf, married Charlott Dieckhoff, born 8.12.1920 on 25.7.1942 in Lipburg, Baden.

Why he had a double-barrelled name after marriage?

All his documents simply say Hans Kaiser, however in Jochen Prien's JG 77 work for his 2 victories he is mentioned as Hans Kaiser-Dieckhoff and also in the the known Me 262 pilot list.

Only took 9 years

/Ian