Wimmer, Wilhelm Georg, born 09-09-1889 in Vilsbiburg, Bavaria, the same year as Adolf Hitler. Wilhelm was not the son of the Bavarian Oberstleutnant Eduard Wimmer (1840-1902), as is sometimes assumed, he was probably an uncle or great-uncle. In contrast, one of his brothers was called Eduard and was also a pilot (old eagle). Wilhelm Wimmer was married to Annamarie, born Brug (1895–1978), who rests with him in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen city cemetery (crypt 4). Wilhelm entered the Army Service, age 20, on 23-09-1909, as a Fahnenjuncker and Company Officer in the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment . He was detached to the War School in Munich, on 30-09-1910, for a pilot training with the Bavarian Flying Battalion Schleissheim. During the first war Wimmer was a Flying adviser and retired on 30-09-1920. Wilhelm than was detached to the Firing School Wünsdorf. . In 1929 Wimmer was appointed Chief of the Statistical Group of the Department of Testing at the Army Weapons Office, where he was responsible for aircraft development, testing and procurement. From this 1933, the Office C (later Technical Office) in the Reich Ministry of Aviation emerged that Wimmer continued to lead. He was instrumental in this role in the upgrade of the Luftwaffe. After General Walther Wever’s death in June 1936, Wimmer, who had meanwhile been promoted to Generalmajor, was replaced by the personal friend of Hermann Goering Ernst Udet
as Chief of the Technical Office and instead appointed to the Higher Flying Commander 3 based in Dresden. In the formation of the 2nd Flieger Division (temporarily 12th Flieger Division) from his command in August 1938, he remained their commander. In February 1939 Wimmer then became commander-in-chief of the Air Force Command East Prussia, as which he participated in the Polish campaign. After his promotion to General der Flieger, he led from May to August 1940, the Air Force 1 (Berlin). With the outbreak of World War II Wimmer was the commanding General of the Luftwaffe-Command East Prussia, until 10-05-1940, the start of Operation Gelb, the Western invasion. Till 19-08-1940 he was the acting Chief of Air Fleet 1, commanding General and Commander of Field Air Region Command Belgium, North of France, until 06-09-1944. He landed in the Führer Reserve OKL (see Adolf Hitler) (did you know), to November 1944, than detached to the Commander in Chief of Paratroops until his captivity on 08-05-1947. Hitler’s and Eva Braun‘s ashes were scattered from the Schweinebrücke over the river Ehle in Biederitz.
Wilhelm’s son Max also wanted to be a pilot. After graduating from high school and completing the Reich Labor Service, he joined the Luftwaffe as a flag junior on 11-11-1937 (5th additional officer year). On 01-11-1938 Max Wimmer was made an ensign and on 01-08-1939 a leutnant with seniority from 01-09-1939. Right at the beginning of the war, Lieutenant Wimmer’s Combat Squadron attacked the Royal Navy with Junkers Ju 88 A, and in 1940 the “Weser Exercise” company was supported.
The Junkers Ju 88 is a German World War II Luftwaffe twin-engined multirole combat aircraft. Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works (JFM) designed the plane in the mid-1930s as a so-called Schnellbomber (“fast bomber”) that would be too fast for fighters of its era to intercept. It suffered from technical problems during its development and early operational periods but became one of the most versatile combat aircraft of the war. Like a number of other Luftwaffe bombers, it served as a bomber, dive bomber, night fighter, torpedo bomber, reconnaissance aircraft, heavy fighter and at the end of the war, as a flying bomb.
On 22-02-1941 the III. Group flew to Gerbini in Sicily and attacked British ships in the Mediterranean from here. Leutnant Wimmer, pilot in 8th Squadron / Kampfgeschwader 30, under command of Major Erich Bloedorn went on another enemy flight with his crew on 11-04-1941, a few days after the air raid on the port of Piraeus, but one attacked in the area of the Greek island of Salamis The superior force of the Royal Air Force (Hawker Hurricane of Number 33 Squadron) attacked the fighter, Wimmers Ju 88 A-5 (serial number: 8.169) was shot down and fell into the sea. The entire crew fell. Erich Bloedorn (06-07-1902 – 30-11-1975) was a German Luftwaffe bomber pilot and recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II. The Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Bloedorn survived the war and died age 73 in Ansbach.
Death and burial ground of Wimmer, Wilhelm Georg.
Wilhelm Wimmer here with Generaloberst Gotthard Heinrici, Wilhelm Wimmer (center) and General Friedrich Karst (right) as British prisoners of war, was released in 1947 and lived in the beautiful Garmisch Partenkirchen, were he at the old age of 83 died, on 15-05-1973. Wimmer is buried with his wife Annemarie, born Brug, who died age 83, on 17-11-1978, on the Stadtfriedhof of Garmisch, next to the WWII Generals, Generalleutnant der Panzertruppe, Kommandant Festung Pillau, Eduard Hauser, Generalmajor der Artillerie, Kommandeur Artillerie Regiment Fallschirmjäger, Iwan von Ilsemann, Generalleutnant der Infanterie, Kommandeur 121th Infanterie Division, Otto Lancelle, Oberst der Flieger, Organisater of “Zahme Sau “ tatics, Victor von Lossberg
, Generalleutnant der Flieger, Inspector of the Military Replacement Inspection, in Schwerin, Theodor Triendl, Generalmajor der Flieger, Kommandeur des Flughafen-Bereichs 2/XVII, Wilhelm Voelk. A favourite place to live for everybody.
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