Schimpf, Richard.

Schimpf, Richard, born 16-05-1897 in Eggenfeld, Lower Bavaria, joined the Army Service as a Fahnenjunker, age 18, on 11-02-1915 and was in the fields of the first war as a Platoon and Company Leader and remained in the new 10 divisions Reichswehr afterwards. He finished a pilot training on 27-09-1925 and retired from the Service on 31-08-1929. He entered  Hermann Göring (did you know) Luftwaffe  as a Major and Officer with Special Duties in the RLM on 01-02-1935. He was as an Oberst the Department Chief for Air Chart and Survey Affairs, RLM from 01-03-1936 to 25-03-1940, World War II had started. Department Chief of RLM, to 03-11-1940. Chief of the General Staff of Air Fleet 4, until 15-01-1941. He was successively Chief of Staff of Air Region Command VIII to 30-11-1941, of Field Air Region Command Kiev to 09-09-1942 and of Field Air Region Command Kharkov, until 26-05-1942. Delegated with the leadership of Luftwaffe Division Eugen Meindl.

 Commander of the 21^st Luftwaffe Field Division to 24-10-1943, now a Generalmajor and landed in the infamous Führer Reserve OKL (see Adolf Hitler) ( Did you know) to 16-02-1944. Meanwhile a Generalleutnant he becomes the commander of the 3^rd Paratrooper Division to 20-08-1944 and is severely wounded in hospital until 05-01-1945. Recovered he again is the commander of the 3^rd Paratroopers Division, to 08-03-1945 and lands in US captivity. Released on 22-12-19147 and joined the new German Bundeswehr for many years and retired 31-07-1962.

Death and burial ground of Schimpf, Richard.

  Living in Düsseldorf Schimpf died at the age of 57, on 30-12-1947 and is buried with his wife Hilde, born Othegraven, who died age 81, on 22-12-1990, on the Nordfriedhof of Düsseldorf. Also buried there are Hitler’s favorite architects, Hermann Giesler   and Paul Giesler and Arno Breker, Generalleutnant der Artillerie, Kommandeur der 526^th Infanterie Division, Fritz Kühne, diplomat in Paris, Ernst vom Rath, killed in Paris by the Jewish boy Grynspan

Kommandeur 1^st Panzer Division , Walther Nehring

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