Who flew von Greim and Reitsch out of Berlin?

[Nick Beale]

Looking at that Axis History Forum thread, reminded me of something slightly off-topic. Gerrard Williams posted there about:

Hauptmann Erich Peter Baumgart, allegedly a Luftwaffe pilot with 128 kills over Crete, Italy, North Africa and the Eastern front . Also an Iron Cross Holder. Appears to have also held SS rank ... Possibly flying with KG 200 in April 1945.

This is the guy Williams' book "Grey Wolf" would have us believe flew Hitler out of Berlin at the end.

I wonder if the Hauptmann was any relation to Uffz. Wolf Baumgart who claimed to have flown two Ju 290 missions to Manchuria with FAG 5 in February 1944. He wound up in the infantry and was wounded in January 1945. He was apparently in hospital for a couple of months and was captured by American troops while making his way home. Source: APWIU (Ninth Air Force) 44/1945 which is in TNA file AIR40/3122.

The report is dated 29 March 1945, so this member of the intrepid Baumgart family probably wasn't available to rescue the Führer ...

[Flupke]

Hello,
Just came across your interesting thread on these flights Reitsch/v. Greim in and out Berlin. This subject has been discussed in depth in Mombeeck's Stoming the Bombers (JG 4) volume 2. Mombeeck's has interviewed the Ofw. in question: Martin Dekker of JG 11. Apparently (I asked Erik on this matter) he could be still alive now!
Hope that it helps.
Phil