Awards Spanish Cross in Gold with Swords Honour Goblet of the Luftwaffe (26 October 1940) Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 13 November 1940 as Hauptmann and Gruppenkommandeur of the II./Jagdgeschwader 26 "Schlageter" Notes References Citations Bibliography 1913 births 1941 deaths German World War II flying aces Condor Legion personnel Luftwaffe personnel killed in World War II Aviators killed by being shot down People from Bacău County Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross German military personnel of the Spanish Civil War Moldavian-German people Burials at Lommel German war cemetery Romanian emigrants to Germany