Rudolf Braunburg-Luftwaffe fighter pilot

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Here some information about Rudolf Braunburg.

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Rudolf Braunburg
Source: www.tiemens.info

Braunburg Sr., a German without work, came to the Netherlands in 1933. His wife and 10-year old son joined him in the spring of 1934. They lived at Vaassen, north of Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. Rudolf was very interested in aviation and wanted to become a pilot. After highschool his father send him to a German NS Lehrerbildungsanstalt. In 1942 he had to go in to military service as a Reichsdeutscher. He went to the Luftwaffe and became pilot at a freight plane.
At the end of the war he was trained as a fighter pilot. He was shot down by a British Mosquito over Austria in his Fw 190 and could make a safe emergency landing. After this incident he was send to an infantry unit and he fought in the Battle of the Bulge. At January 2nd 1945 he became Pow.
After the war he became a schoolteacher but in 1955 he got the opportunity to become an airline pilot in the Lufthansa. In April 1959 he became captain at the DC-3. He retired as a DC-10 captain in 1979.
His first book was published in 1955. Der Himmel näher als der Erde. Other known publications are: Die schwarze Jagd. 334 Page's; ISBN 3 7951 0819 5, Franz Schneekluth Verlag, München and Der verratene Himmel. 360 Page's; ISBN 90 6057 466 4, Nieuwe Wieken, Omegaboek, Amsterdam.
Other publications, some titles are given in Dutch, are:
- Tussenlanding (ECI, Utrecht)
- Vlucht 773 (Van Veen, Wageningen)
- Landing in Rio (Van Veen, Wageningen)
- Drachensturz (Bastei/Lübke, Duitsland)
- Nachtstart (Schneekluth, Duitsland)
- Auf dem Wind (Schneekluth, Duitsland)
- Such mich am Himmel (Schneekluth, Duitsland)
- Piratenkurs (Schneekluth, Duitsland)
- Beruf; Flugkapitän (Motorbuchverlag, Duitsland)
- Wachtwoord Koningsbergen (De Sfinx, Huizen)
- Rudolf Braunburg, Ein Leben auf Flüglen.
Rudolf Braunburg died in Waldbröl at February 21 1996. He became 71 years old.