Wilhelm

Wilhelm Wimmer, born 09-09-1889 in Vilsbiburg, Bavaria, the same year as Adolf Hitler, entered the Army, age 20, on 23-09-1909, as a Fahnenjuncker and Company Officer in the 16^th Bavarian Infantry Regiment. He was detached to the War School in Munich, on 30-09-1910, for a pilot training with the Bavarian Flying Battalion Schleissheim. During the first war Wimmer was a Flying advisor and retired on 30-09-1920. He than was detached to the Firing School Wünsdorf and became a platoon leader. Wimmer was transferred to Goering's (see Hermann Goering) (did you know) Luftwaffe on 01-09-1933. With the outbreak of World War II Wimmer was the commanding General of the Luftwaffe-Command East Prussia, until 10-05-1940, the start of Operation Gelb, the Western invasion. Till 19-08-1940 he was the acting Chief of Air Fleet 1, commanding General and Commander of Field Air Region Command Belgium, North of France, until 06-09-1944. He landed in the Führer Reserve OKL (see Adolf Hitler) (did you know), to November 1944, than detached to the Commander in Chief of Paratroops until his captivity on 08-05-1947. Wilhelm Wimmer was released in 1947 and lived in the beautiful Garmisch Partenkirchen,   were he at the old age of 83 died, on 15-05-1973.  Wimmer is buried with his wife Annemarie, born Brug, who died age 83, on 17-11-1978, on the Stadtfriedhof of Garmisch, next to the WWII Generals, Iwan Ilsemann (see Ilsemann), Richard John (see John), Eduard Hauser (see Hauser), Wilhelm Fahrmbacher (see Fahrmbacher), Christain Hansen (see Hansen) and Theodor Triendl (see Triendl) and more,  A favourite place to live for everybody.