(Photo courtesy of Gareth Collins)
Generalmajor Dipl.Ing. Robert Krauß
Born: 20 Mar 1894 in Bayreuth
Died: 20 Feb 1953 in Lindau on Bodensee
Diploma In Engineering: 1922
Promotions:
Gefreiter (10 Feb 1915); Oberjäger (01 Apr 1915); Vizefeldwebel (08 Apr 1915); Offiziers-Stellvertreter (15 May 1916); Leutnant der Reserve (02 Jun 1916); Charakter als Oberleutnant der Reserve (16 Jul 1921); Major (01 Apr 1935); Oberstleutnant (01 Aug 1937); Oberst (01 Feb 1940); Generalmajor (01 Aug 1943)
Career:
Entered the Army Reserves as a War Volunteer with the Replacement-Battalion of the 1st Bavarian Field-Artillery-Regiment (16 Aug 1914-20 Oct 1914)
War Volunteer with the Replacement-Battalion of the 1st Bavarian Jäger-Regiment (21 Oct 1914-26 Sep 1915)
Group and Platoon Leader in the 1st Bavarian Reserve-Jäger-Battalion (27 Sep 1915-03 Dec 1917)
Flying-Training with the Bavarian Flying-Replacement-Battalion I, Schleißheim (04 Dec 1917-21 Jan 1918)
Training at the Bavarian Flying-School 5 (22 Jan 1918-20 Jun 1918)
Detached to Army-Flight-Park 17 (21 Jun 1918-29 Aug 1918)
Pilot with the Flying-Battalion A 293 (30 Aug 1918-06 Feb 1920)
Retired (06 Feb 1919)
Temporal-Volunteer in the Infantry-Battalion Prenzlau (13 Mar 1920-16 Jul 1921)
Entered Luftwaffe Service and Attended Infantry-MG-Course in Königsbrück (01 Apr 1935-31 May 1935)
Detached to Flying-Group Göppingen (01 Jun 1935-31 Jul 1935)
Commander of the Flying-Training-Office Halberstadt and Air-Base-Command Halberstadt (01 Aug 1935-30 Sep 1936)
At the Bomber-Flying-School Faßberg (01 Oct 1936-31 Dec 1936)
Squadron-Captain in Bomber-Wing 157 ‘Boelcke’ (01 Jan 1937-30 Sep 1937)
Commander of III. Group of Bomber-Wing 257 ‘Hindenburg’ (01 Oct 1937-31 Dec 1937)
Commander of IV. Group of Bomber-Wing 152 (01 Jan 1938-31 Oct 1939)
At the same time, Air-Base-Commandant Kolberg (01 Apr 1938-31 Oct 1939)
Officer with Special Duties of the RLM and C-in-C Luftwaffe (01 Nov 1939-28 Feb 1940)
Group-Leader in the Regulations-Department, RLM (01 Mar 1940-30 Sep 1940)
Commander of the Greater Bomber Flying School 3, Warsaw and Air-Base-Commandant Warsaw (01 Oct 1940-30 Apr 1941)
Commodore of Bomber-School-Wing 1 and of Bomber-Wing 101 (01 May 1941-31 Oct 1944)
Commander of Command-Office of Luftwaffe in Hamburg (01 Nov 1944-31 Jan 1945)
With Air-Region-Command Wiesbaden then Munich (01 Feb 1945-08 May 1945)
In Captivity (08 May 1945-00 Jun 1947)
Released (00 Jun 1947)

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