Lichtenberger, Hermann.

Lichtenberger, Hermann, born 20-08-1892 in Germersheim, Rheinland, entered the Army service, age 19, on 20-10-1911, in the 2^nd Bavarian Foot Artillery Regiment. He was in the fields of the first war with the 6^th Bavarian Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment.

From 01-06-1919 transfer to the 4th Bavarian Heavy Artillery Department 24 / Reichswehr Brigade 24 (Provisional Reichswehr)at the same time training as an officer. 19-11-1920 transferred to the 7th (Bavarian) Artillery Regiment (Reichswehr). The commanding officer was then Oberst Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb from 01-02-1926 to 28-02-1928. Promoted from 01-01-1922 to Leutnant, from 01-04-1925 to Oberleutnant, from 01-08-1929 to Hauptmann and from 01-10-1929 Military specialist for motor vehicles on the staff of Transport Department 7, From 01-11-1932 Battery Chief in the 7th (Bavarian) Artillery Regiment. Promoted from 01-10-1935 to Major and at the same time transfer to the Air Force as commander of the III. Division / Flak Regiment 8From 01-04-1936 Commander of the 1st Division / Flak Regiment 18 (according to mot.) And from 03-8-1937 1938 Commander of the F / 88 (Air Defense Department) of the Condor Legion.Promoted from 01-04-1938 to Lieutenant Colonel and Commander of the I. Department / Flak Regiment 18 (according to mot.). From 24-04-1938 he came from 14-07-1939 to the staff of the Luftgau Command XIII (Nuremberg), and promoted to Oberst from 01-08- 1939.

With the begin of World War II he as an Oberst, was in the Staff of the Air Region Command XIII, in Nuremburg to 14-11-1939. Commander of the 5^th Flak Regiment in Munich and commander of the 104^th Flak Regiment until 17-11-1941. He then landed in the Führer Reserve to 15-03-1942 and became Inspector of Flak Artillery in Air Region Holland (see About)

    until 28-09-1942. Appointed to commander of Flak Brigade IV in Munich, until 26-11-1942. His son Lieutenant Horst, age 20, was killed in battle in 1943. Lichtenberger taken ill was on granted leave to 31-10-1943 and finally retired, age 51.

Hermann Lichtenberger was married to Emilie, born Schöpfer (1896–1958). There son Horst Lichtenberger (born 30-09-1923) was a fighter pilot and since 01-12-1942 a leutnant. He last served as a pilot in the staff squadron of the III. Gruppe / Jagdgeschwader 11. He was killed on 02-10-1943 as his Bf 109 G-6 in an aerial battle with a P-47 of the USAAF terrorist aviator fighter protection in the area of Dollart Bay. His machine is said to have crashed into the North Sea north of the island of Juist. His name is listed on his parents’ tombstone, but it is not known whether he was buried there or whether it was in memory.

Death and burial ground of Lichtenberger, Hermann.

Living in his hometown Germersheim, Lichtenberger died at the age of 66, on 15-01-1959 and is buried with his wife Emilie, born Schöpfer, who died age 62 in 1958, on the Stadtfriedhof of Germersheim.

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