(Photo courtesy of Gareth Collins)
Generalmajor Erich-Erdmann Fitzau
Born: 31 May 1896 in Köthen, Anhalt
Died: 07 Oct 1953 in Ebersteinburg by Baden-Baden
Promotions:
Leutnant (04 Oct 1914); Polizei-Leutnant (15 Jun 1920); Polizei-Hauptmann (30 Jun 1926); Polizei-Major (01 Apr 1935); Major (01 Sep 1935); Oberstleutnant (01 Oct 1937); Oberst (01 Jan 1940); Generalmajor (01 Mar 1944)
Career:
Entered the Army as a Platoon-Leader in the 74th Infantry-Regiment (12 Aug 1914-11 Oct 1914)
Company-Leader in the 74th Infantry-Regiment (12 Oct 1914-14 Dec 1915)
Observer-Training with Army-Flight-Park 7 (15 Dec 1915-16 Jan 1916)
Observer-Training with Test-Park West (17 Jan 1916-07 Feb 1916)
Observer with the 39th Flying-Battalion (08 Feb 1916-10 Oct 1916)
Detached to Army-Flight-Park 3 (11 Oct 1916-16 Oct 1916)
Pilot-Training with the 9th Flying-Replacement-Battalion (17 Oct 1916-09 Dec 1916)
Pilot with the Flying-Battalion A 268 (10 Dec 1916-16 Mar 1917)
Detached to Army-Flight-Park 2 (17 Mar 1917-02 Apr 1917)
Pilot with the 40th Flying-Battalion (03 Apr 1917-23 Oct 1917)
Detached to Army-Flight-Park 4 (24 Oct 1917-30 Oct 1917)
Detached to Flying-Group-Leader 2 (31 Oct 1917-06 Dec 1917)
Instructor at the Observer-School West, Army-Flight-Park 4 (07 Dec 1917-17 Apr 1918)
Detached to Army-Flight-Park 3 (18 Apr 1918-20 Apr 1918)
Detached to Army-Flight-Park 1 (21 Apr 1918-27 Apr 1918)
Pilot with the 261st Flying-Battalion (28 Apr 1918-08 Feb 1919)
Pilot with the 423rd Flying-Battalion later 116th Artillery-Flying-Squadron (09 Feb 1919-29 Jul 1919)
With the Flying-Replacement-Troop in Camp Ohrdruf (30 Jul 1919-25 Aug 1919)
Platoon-Leader in the Bicycle-Company of the Reichswehr-Jäger-Battalion V/32 (26 Aug 1919-14 Jun 1920)
Granted Leave (15 Jun 1920-30 Sep 1920)
Retired (30 Sep 1920)
Entered Police Service as Platoon-Leader with the Police-Department Berlin-Charlottenburg (15 Jun 1920-26 Jul 1920)
Ordinance-Officer of the Police-Department Berlin-Zehlendorf (27 Jul 1920-31 Dec 1921)
Ordinance-Officer of the 2nd then 1st Units of the Police-Department Berlin-Zehlendorf (01 Jan 1922-01 Oct 1922)
Temporary-Leader of the 3rd Alarm-Unit of the Police-Department Berlin-Charlottenburg (02 Oct 1922-31 Mar 1923)
Auxiliary-Advisor for Personnel and Weapons with the Police-Department Berlin-Zehlendorf (01 Apr 1923-00 Jul 1924)
Alarm-Unit-Officer and Temporary-Alarm-Unit-Leader of the 1st Alarm-Unit of the Police-Inspection Berlin-Zehlendorf (00 Jul 1924-29 Jun 1926)
Leader of the 2nd Alarm-Unit of the Police-Inspection Berlin-Zehlendorf (30 Jun 1926-04 Jan 1927)
Leader of the 2nd Alarm-Unit of the Police-Alarm-Inspection West, Berlin (05 Jan 1927-04 Jun 1928)
Leader of the 2nd Alarm-Unit of the Police-Alarm-Inspection North, Berlin (05 Jun 1928-29 Dec 1928)
Chief of the 4th Police-District of the Police-Inspection Linden, Berlin (30 Dec 1928-19 Oct 1932)
Leader of the 1st Alarm-Unit of the Police-Inspection Linden, Berlin (20 Oct 1932-14 Aug 1933)
Taken Ill, Granted Leave (15 Aug 1933-20 Jun 1934)
Instructor at the Higher State Police School Eiche (21 Jun 1934-31 Jul 1935)
Transferred to Luftwaffe Service as an Instructor at the Air War School Courses in Eiche (01 Aug 1935-30 Apr 1936)
Officer with Special Duties of the RLM and C-in-C Luftwaffe (01 May 1936-30 Jun 1936)
Squadron-Captain with Flying-Group I/153, Merseburg (01 Jul 1936-28 Feb 1937)
Commander of I. Group in the 153rd Bomber-Wing and Airbase-Commandant Merseburg (01 Mar 1937-31 Mar 1939)
With the Staff of the 1st Flying-Division (01 Apr 1939-17 Sep 1939)
Placed to the Disposal of the 21st Flying-Supplement-Battalion (18 Sep 1939-02 Oct 1939)
With the Staff of the I. Flying-Corps (03 Oct 1939-04 Aug 1940)
Commander of the Acceptance-Office 4 for Officer-Applicants of the Luftwaffe (05 Aug 1940-28 Nov 1941)
Badly Wounded in a Motor Vehicle Crash, in Luftwaffe-Hospital Vienna (05 Jun 1941-28 Nov 1941)
Advisor in the RLM, L In 10 (29 Nov 1941-1942)
Commander of the Air War School 9 (1942-01 Nov 1943)
Airport-Area-Commandant Finland (02 Nov 1943-11 Mar 1945)
Commander of Directing-Office of Catch-Command West with Air-Region-Command V (12 Mar 1945-08 May 1945)
In US Captivity (08 May 1945-01 Mar 1947)
Released (01 Mar 1947)

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