Höhne, Otto Paul Wilhelm, born 30-04-1895 in Woinowitz, in Ober Silesia
, a family of chemists with a sugar factory. He attended grammar school in Ratibor up to secondary school and then began studying technology. Otto joined the Army Service as a war volunteer in the 2nd Grenadier Regiment, age 19, on 14-08-1914. In the fields of the first war as a war volunteer with the 49th Infantry Regiment and wounded
in hospital in Stendal and Ratibor from 19-01-1917 to 01-12-1915. He finished his pilot training
on 26-03-1916 and as a pilot Höhne served in Jasta 2 under Oswald Boelcke
and also in Jastas 1 and 59. Oswald Boelcke (19-05-1891 – 28-10-1916) was a German flying ace of the First World War credited with 40 victories; he was one of the most influential patrol leaders and tacticians of the early years of air combat. Boelcke is honored as the father of the German fighter air force, as well as considered the “Father of Air Fighting Tactics”. Oswald was killed in action age 25.





Höhne scored a total of six victories as a pilot. Again in hospital from 10-01-1917 to 21-03-1917. Höhne was a pioneer ace; he was the first pilot to score a victory while flying the Fokker D I















Höhne was a pioneer ace. He was the first pilot to score a victory while flying the Albatros Doctorate. During World War I he was a recipient of the Knight”s Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.
Otto was married twice with three children from the first and two from the second marriage with Hildegard, Dorothea “Dorli” and doctor and writer Claudia, who died in 1975 Jost Gudelius. Colonel of the mountain troops of the Bundeswehr as well as mountain and ski guides) married (four children) and expanded and expanded the house on Raut in Jachenau (between the districts of Tannern and Orth), which Otto and Hildegard had built from spring 1948.
Death and burial ground of Höhne, Otto Paul Wilhelm.




