(Photo courtesy of Gareth Collins)
Generalmajor Alwin Wolz
Born: 22 Sep 1897 in Windsfeld, District Central Franconia (Mittelfranken)
Died: 15 Sep 1978 in Vaterstetten by Munich (München)
Promotions:
Fahnenjunker-Gefreiter (01 Aug 1916); Fahnenjunker-Unteroffizier (16 Sep 1916); Fähnrich (25 Nov 1916); Leutnant (25 Jun 1917); Polizei-Leutnant (24 Nov 1919); Polizei-Oberleutnant (23 Apr 1924); Polizei-Hauptmann (21 Nov 1932); Hauptmann (01 Sep 1935); Major (01 Aug 1936); Oberstleutnant (01 Mar 1939); Oberst (01 Jul 1941); Generalmajor (01 Aug 1944)
Career:
Entered the Navy (23 Jul 1915)
War Volunteer in the Replacement-Battalion of the 2nd Naval-Infantry-Regiment Wilhelmshaven (23 Jul 1915-24 Oct 1915)
War Volunteer in the 3rd Naval-Infantry-Regiment (25 Oct 1915-20 Jun 1916)
Detached to the Replacement-Battalion of the 2nd Naval-Infantry-Regiment (21 Jun 1916-16 Jul 1916)
Transferred into the Army (17 Jul 1916)
Fahnenjunker/Fähnrich in the 5th Bavarian Infantry-Regiment (17 Jul 1916-08 Jun 1917)
Wounded, in Hospital (08 Jun 1917-19 Jul 1917)
With the Replacement-Battalion of the 5th Bavarian Infantry-Regiment (20 Jul 1917-22 Aug 1917)
Platoon and Temporary Company Leader in the 5th Bavarian Infantry-Regiment (23 Aug 1917-03 May 1918)
Company-Leader in the 5th Bavarian Infantry-Regiment (04 May 1918-07 Jan 1919)
Platoon-Leader in the 5th Bavarian Infantry-Regiment (08 Jan 1919-05 Mar 1919)
Platoon-Leader in the Volunteer-MG-Company Knieß (06 Mar 1919-19 Apr 1919)
MG-Platoon-Leader with Freikorps Bamberg (20 Apr 1919-22 May 1919)
MG-Platoon-Leader in the 46th Reichswehr-Infantry-Regiment (23 May 1919-31 Oct 1919)
Detached to the Processing-Station of the 5th Bavarian Infantry-Regiment (01 Nov 1919-23 Nov 1919)
Granted Leave (24 Nov 1919-31 Jan 1920)
Entered Police Service (24 Nov 1919)
Platoon-Leader with the Bavarian State Police Nuremberg and Training as Motor Vehicle Officer with the Police Motor Vehicle Workshop Nuremberg (24 Nov 1919-31 Oct 1923)
Leader of Police-Motor-Transport-Battalion Regensburg (01 Nov 1923-30 Sep 1925)
Leader of Motor-Transport-Battalion of State-Police Landshut (01 Oct 1925-1928)
Director of the Motor-Vehicle-Battalion and of the Transport-School of the Police-Motor-Vehicle-Workshop Munich (1928-1932)
Course for Operations-Staff-Officers (1932-31 Mar 1933)
Leader of the 2nd Police-Unit of State-Police Ludwigshafen (01 Apr 1933-30 Apr 1934)
Liaison-Officer of the Bavarian State Police to the Commander of Protection-Police Württemberg (01 May 1934-30 Sep 1934)
Liaison-Officer of the Bavarian State Police to Military-District-Command V, Stuttgart (01 Oct 1934-30 Apr 1935)
Administrator (Ia) with the Inspection of Bavarian State Police, Munich (01 May 1935-31 Aug 1935)
Transferred into the Luftwaffe (01 Sep 1935)
Officer with Special Duties of the RLM and C-in-C Luftwaffe (01 Sep 1935-30 Sep 1935)
Use with the I. Battalion of the 5th Flak-Regiment, Munich (01 Oct 1935-02 Dec 1935)
Detached to 2nd Course at Air-District-School Berlin-Gatow (03 Dec 1935-12 Mar 1936)
Detached to I. Battalion of the 5th Flak-Regiment, Munich (13 Mar 1936-30 Sep 1936)
Detached to Officer-Course for 150cm Spotlights (04 Jun 1936-03 Jul 1936)
Chief of the Spotlight-Battery of the 25th Flak-Regiment, Ludwigsburg (01 Oct 1936-30 Sep 1937)
Commander of Flak-Battalion I/25 (01 Oct 1937-14 Nov 1938)
Commander of Flak-Battalion III/25 (15 Nov 1938-25 Aug 1939)
Commander of the 25th Flak-Regiment (26 Aug 1939-31 Oct 1939)
Commander of Flight-Defence-Command Stuttgart (01 Nov 1939-00 May 1940)
At the same time, Temporary Chief Of Operations 2 (Ia op 2) in the Staff of Air-Region-Command VII, Munich (15 Nov 1939-31 Jan 1940)
Commander of the 25th Flak-Regiment and at the same time Commander of Flak-Group Braunschweig, Sylt, Denmark, again Braunschweig and Hannover (00 May 1940-31 Jan 1942)
Commander of the 135th Flak-Regiment and Flak-Leader with Panzer-Army Rommel (Africa) (01 Feb 1942-30 Apr 1943)
Commander of Flak-Brigade XV, Hannover (01 May 1943-31 Oct 1943)
Flak-Employment-Leader for the Northern Germany Area and for Denmark with the 2nd Night-Fighter-Division (01 Nov 1943-30 Apr 1944)
Commander of the 3rd Flak-Division (Hamburg) (01 May 1944-01 Apr 1945)
Battle-Commandant Hamburg (02 Apr 1945-04 May 1945)
In British Captivity (04 May 1945-07 Jul 1947)
Released (07 Jul 1947)

Decorations & Awards:
- Ritterkreuz (846): am 04.06.1943 als Oberst und Kommandeur Flak-Regiment 135 (mot)
- Deutsches Kreuz in Gold: am 07.09.1942 als Oberst und Kommandeur Flak-Regiment 135 (mot)
- 1914 EK I
- 1914 EK II
- Kgl. Bayer. Militär-Verdienstorden IV. Klasse mit Schwertern
- Verwundetenabzeichen, 1918 in Schwarz
- Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer 1914/1918
- Wehrmacht-Dienstauszeichnung IV. bis II. Klasse
- Spange zum EK I
- Spange zum EK II
- Flakkampfabzeichen
- Kgl. Italien. Silberne Tapferkeitsmedaille: 01.11.1942
- Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe
- Ärmelband “Afrika”


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