Fitze, Georg, born 05-09-1896 in Brostau,
Silesia, joined the Army as a war volunteer in the 1st Foot Artillery Regiment, later with the Flying Troop to his captivity on 08-10-1918, age 22. He was released on 31-12-1919, retired from the Army and joined the Police Service on 24-02-1920. Fitze reactivated in the growing Luftwaffe
of Hermann Goering
(did you know), in the Staff of an Air District Command, on 14-03-1935. With the outbreak of World War II on 01-09-1939, he was detached to the 77th Stuka Wing, Sturzkampfgeschwader 77,
to 26-10-1939, under command of Oberst Günter Schwartzkopff,
. Schwartzkopff was killed on 14-05-1940, age 41, after his Junkers Ju 87 was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. A famous Stuka pilot was Oberst der Luftwaffe, destroyed 500 tanks, Hans Ulrich Rudel
.
During his career, Rudel flew over 2530 (around 400 of his sorties were flown in a Focke-Wulf 190 fighter plane during whichhe was credit with 11 air victories) missions and destroyed around 150 various artillery pieces, 519 tanks
, around 1000 various vehicles, 70 landing crafts, 2 Lavochkin La-3 fighters, Il-2 Stormovik and sunk Battleship “Marat”,
2 Cruisers and a Destroyer. Rudel was responsible for such huge damages to the Red Army that Joseph Stalin 
himself put a price of 100.000 rubles on his head.He flew more than 600.000 km and used more than 5.000.000 liters of fuel. Hans Rudel dropped over 1.000.000 kg of bombs, fired over 1.000.000 of machine gun rounds, over 150.000 20mm rounds and over 5000 37 mm rounds. Rudel thought that the Lend-Lease American tanks were easier to kill than the Soviet T-34s,
but he hated their machine guns, because once he was shot down by one. Rudel was an outstanding pilot with experience,who loved to fly and destroy. He hated to take home leave or sick leave and even when he got his leg amputated
















Georg Fitze was promoted to Oberst on 01-01-1941 and Airbase Commander of Neuhausen, following Commander of Flying Replacement Battalion III, until 24-03-1945. He was succeeded by Generalleutnant Willibald Spang

Death and burial ground of Fitze, Georg.




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