Need help with Leadership lists for KG30

[Larry Hickey]

Chris,

Thanx. Since Hielscher didn't return until June 23rd, essentially at the end of the WC/FC, then this means that someone else must have stepped into the job, even if only on a temporary basis. Chris, do you have anything on an Oblt-Hptm. Eric Hass? He was apparently a StaKap before he took over as Kdr of II./KG30, and even before that, may have temporarily held a StaKap position in I./KG30.

"HASS, Erich. 05.07.39 Oblt., temporary duty from III./KG 4 to Erprobungsstelle d.Lw. Rechlin. 09.10.40 Hptm., appt Kdr. II./KG 30 (to 16.10.40 MIA – aircraft crashed and exploded with full bomb load, at Bishop’s Stortford Church, due to unknown causes)"

On an old list Peter Cornwell had him as temp StaKap of 2 Staffel back when we thought that Storp was StaKap of 2 Staffel. Then he has him moving to 4 Staffel as Kap, before moving up to II./KG30 GrKdr.

Also, do you know anything about "Hptm. Helmut Diesing," who a PoW from mid-October, 1939, identified as the Kap of 1 Staffel (apparently before Loesch)? He was at Rechlin during the ramp up to the formation of KG30, but it's not clear what position he held.

Regards,