Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik Explained

Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik
Birth Date:10 December 1891
Signature:Unterschrift Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik (Fritz Morzig) (1891-1985).png
Branch:Luftwaffe (1934–45)
Serviceyears:1909–19
1934–45
Rank:Generalmajor
Battles:World War II
Awards:Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik (10 December 1891 – 17 June 1985) was a general in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Morzik was a winner in the first International Tourist Plane Contest Challenge and the second Challenge in 1930. In 1935 he started service in the Air Force (Luftwaffe), as a commandant of pilots' school. In World War II he became a head of Luftwaffe Transport Command, in a rank of Generalmajor.[1]

After the war he wrote a detailed story of German transport aviation during the war: Die deutschen Transportflieger im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Frankfurt am Main, 1966) and German Air Force Airlift Operations (New York: Arno Press, 1968).[2]

Awards and decorations

References

Bibliography

. Walther-Peer Fellgiebel . 2000 . 1986 . Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile . The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches . German . Friedberg, Germany . Podzun-Pallas . 978-3-7909-0284-6.

Notes and References

  1. Edwards, R. Panzer: A Revolution in Warfare 1993 p.169 ISBN 1854092081
  2. The Candy Bombers The Berlin Airlift, 1948/49 : the Technical Conditions and Their Successful Transformation Von Wolfgang J. Huschke · 2008 (books.google.de).
  3. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 258.