Pilot name??

[Kutscha]

May 4th. 1945 a Messerschmitt Bf-109K-4 "Black 1" which escaped from the surrounded German forces on the East-front, landed safely just north of the town Rønne on the Baltic island of Bornholm.


Pilots name is unknown and what became of the pilot.

[Frans A]

Kutscha,
This is may-be not the one you are looking for, but he landed 45-05-04 on Bulltofta, the airport of Malmö.
Ofw. Horst-Walter Petzschler of 10./JG 51. He was interned.
Frans A

[Kutscha]

Thanks you Frans.

Further research has the pilot as you say.

In the book "Nödlanding Sverige" = "Forced landing Sweden"
On 4th. May 1945 at 14:50 a Messerschmitt Bf-109 G-10/R3 landed safely on Bulltofta. The plane belonged to JG 51, was flown by Fw. H.W. Petzschler.
The unit was temporarily based at the Vistula estuary and to be redeployed to Bornholm.
Soviet troops were nearby, but had trouble getting the artillery through the water-filled and flooded the area.
The start was dramatic on uneven surfaces and two aircraft crashed.
Petzschler lost his extra fuel tank that was suspended below the hull. With a flight time limited to just over an hour, he set course
for Sweden. Right near Bulltofta he ran out of fuel. The landing went well and the plane was undamaged.
The aircraft was in August flown to Bromma and handed 27th the same month over to the Soviet Union.
Petzschler who first thought he landed in Copenhagen, was detained and extradited 25th January 1946 to the Soviet Union. He sat in the Russian captivity to Septemper 1949, when he is released.
When the plane was test flown at Bromma, it crashed and was destroyed.
The wreck was sold as scrap.

Photos of the a/c can be found here, http://www.me109.info/web.php?a=e&n=ua&f=539

[Revi16]

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/kan...?pid=151111366

http://www.aviationartstore.com/pilot_Horst_Fw190.htm

[Delmenhorst]

The plane belonged to III./JG 51. I don't think that any of the Danes have the name of the German pilot. He was probably taken prisoner a few days later when the island surrendered to the russians.