Vierling, Albert Otto, born 30-09-1887 in Weiden, Pfalz, 
the son of Josef Vierling (1848–1927), owner of the Mohrenapotheke in Weiden, and his wife Therese, born Einhenkel. Albert had seven siblings, brother Karl and the sisters Therese, Franziska, Josefine Antonie Johanna, Elisabeth Antonia, Antonie and Marianne “Marie” Franziska. The young officer married his fiancée Therese Anna “Thea” Benz (1889–1984), daughter of Anton Benz and Anna, born Höller. The two daughters Ingeborg “Inge” Maria (1917–1998) and Gabriele (born 16-02-1922; died 21-11-2011) were born from the marriage. Daughter Inge first married Otmar Georg Wilhelm Egon Weiss (born 17-01-1916 in Nuremberg), who, as a 26-year-old captain of the Africa Corps, 
died on 06-06-1942 during the Africa campaign (company “Theseus”). Now the widow stood alone with their son Ottmar. She later married again, this time to Dr. med Johann “Hans” Schaber from Landsberg am Lech (1893–1972), with whom she had another child (Hannes) and who adopted the child from her first marriage.
the son of Josef Vierling (1848–1927), owner of the Mohrenapotheke in Weiden, and his wife Therese, born Einhenkel. Albert had seven siblings, brother Karl and the sisters Therese, Franziska, Josefine Antonie Johanna, Elisabeth Antonia, Antonie and Marianne “Marie” Franziska. The young officer married his fiancée Therese Anna “Thea” Benz (1889–1984), daughter of Anton Benz and Anna, born Höller. The two daughters Ingeborg “Inge” Maria (1917–1998) and Gabriele (born 16-02-1922; died 21-11-2011) were born from the marriage. Daughter Inge first married Otmar Georg Wilhelm Egon Weiss (born 17-01-1916 in Nuremberg), who, as a 26-year-old captain of the Africa Corps, died on 06-06-1942 during the Africa campaign (company “Theseus”). Now the widow stood alone with their son Ottmar. She later married again, this time to Dr. med Johann “Hans” Schaber from Landsberg am Lech (1893–1972), with whom she had another child (Hannes) and who adopted the child from her first marriage.Albert entered the Army, age 20, on 31-07-1907, with the Bavarian Telegraph Detachment in Munich. At the same time he visited the War School in Munich. On 26-05-1909 he was assigned as Platoon Leader in the 82nd Bavarian Telegraph Battalion 
. He started a pilot training on the Military Flying School in Doberitz 
, on 26-09-1911, With the start of the first war he as a pilot with the 1st Bavarian Flying Battalion was on the front and wounded in July 1915. He ended the war as a Hauptmann and had received both classes of the Iron Cross 
for his achievements, as well as the 4th Army Class with swords 
. Vierling remained in the new Reichswehr 
after the war and retired on 31-12-1920. He became managing director with the Bavarian Sports Flight GMBH. Vierling was reactivated in Adolf Hitler’s (did you know) and Hermann Göring’s (did you know) 
growing Luftwaffe 
on 01-01-1934. At the beginning of World War II he was Commander of Special Purpose Air Region Staff 4 and had the command of Luftwaffe Supply in Poland, until 31-12-1939. He was appointed with the same command of Group 12, to 22-10-1941. With Operation Barbarossa 
he became Commanding General and Commander in Field Air Region Rostov-Don till June 1943. He stayed in Russia as Commanding General and Commander in Field Air Region XXV, Southern Russia, until 15-08-1944. Retreated from Russia he was Commanding General and Commander in Air Region 1, in Königsberg, where General der Infanterie, Defender of “Festung Königsberg”, Otto Lasch 
had the Wehrmacht Command, until 02-02-1945. Vierling then landed in the Führer Reserve, not useful anymore and retired, age 47, on 30-04-1945.
. He started a pilot training on the Military Flying School in Doberitz , on 26-09-1911, With the start of the first war he as a pilot with the 1st Bavarian Flying Battalion was on the front and wounded in July 1915. He ended the war as a Hauptmann and had received both classes of the Iron Cross for his achievements, as well as the 4th Army Class with swords . Vierling remained in the new Reichswehr after the war and retired on 31-12-1920. He became managing director with the Bavarian Sports Flight GMBH. Vierling was reactivated in Adolf Hitler’s (did you know) and Hermann Göring’s (did you know) growing Luftwaffe on 01-01-1934. At the beginning of World War II he was Commander of Special Purpose Air Region Staff 4 and had the command of Luftwaffe Supply in Poland, until 31-12-1939. He was appointed with the same command of Group 12, to 22-10-1941. With Operation Barbarossa he became Commanding General and Commander in Field Air Region Rostov-Don till June 1943. He stayed in Russia as Commanding General and Commander in Field Air Region XXV, Southern Russia, until 15-08-1944. Retreated from Russia he was Commanding General and Commander in Air Region 1, in Königsberg, where General der Infanterie, Defender of “Festung Königsberg”, Otto Lasch had the Wehrmacht Command, until 02-02-1945. Vierling then landed in the Führer Reserve, not useful anymore and retired, age 47, on 30-04-1945.Death and burial ground of Vierling, Albert Otto.
Living in Gräfeling near Munich, Vierling died at the old age of 81, on 09-04-1969 and is buried with his wife Thea, on the cemetery Grosshaderstrasse, in Gräfeling. On this cemetery are also buried the Generalleutnant der Flieger, Kommandant von Bohemië und Moravië, Max Ziervogel
, Generalleutnant der Infanterie, Commander of the 147th Division, Karl Held, Generalleutnant der Kavallerie, Moritz Faber de Baur, Generalleutnant der Infanterie, General der Flieger/Artillerie, the high commander of Feldkommandeur 569, in Wolhynien, Friedrich Haselmayr, Nazi jurist, Edmund Wachenfeld, the Nazi jurist, Theodor Maunz and Hitler’s former driver and look a like 
, SS Brigadeführer, Julius Schreck.
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