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Hermann Köhl (April 15, 1888 in Neu-Ulm – October 7, 1938 in Munich)
He was a German aviation pioneer and fighter pilot in World War I. He was the second of eight children of the later Bavarian Generalleutnant Wilhelm Köhl and his wife Walburga, née Mahler. The family lived at Ludwigstraße 6, and Hermann attended primary school and then secondary school in Ulm. At the time, his father was a Hauptmann and a battery commander in the 2. Fußartillerie-Regiment (2nd Foot Artillery Regiment) and he was transferred to Munich in 1897, where the family moved. There Hermann was with the corps of cadets for some time, but was fired for misconduct. He therefore completed his education at the high schools of Nuremberg and Augsburg. In 1906, Köhl joined the 13th Pioneer Battalion of the Württemberg Army as a cadet, became a lieutenant on August 22, 1908, and attended the Military Technical Academy in Berlin from 1913. He was originally supposed to receive a two-year apprenticeship here, but this was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War.
At the start of the war, Köhl was deployed as a platoon leader with his battalion on the Western Front and suffered a serious leg injury in the Vosges, which meant that, for the time being, it was no longer possible to serve in this Unit. He volunteered for the Fliegertruppe, where he was initially an observer and there he first earned his reputation as a talented navigator. He was promoted to Oberleutnant on March 22, 1915 and appointed squadron leader in Kampfgeschwader 4 (Kagohl 4), with which he carried out night flying operations in Flanders in particular. In Böblingen he trained as a pilot. In late 1916 he was shot down in a dogfight and spent some time in hospital. In March 1918 he was promoted to Hauptmann and appointed commander of a Bombergeschwader, and shortly thereafter received Prussia's highest award for bravery, the Order Pour le Mérite, for his part in the destruction of the Blargies ammunition dump. During an attack flight in May 1918, his plane had to make an emergency landing and the French took him prisoner. After several attempts, he finally managed to escape from prison in September 1919.
Köhl resigned from military service in April 1925 and moved to Berlin with his wife Elfriede (Peterle) to work as night route manager for Junkers Luftverkehr AG on Tempelhofer Feld. When Luft Hansa was founded in 1926, he was the first manager of night flights. From 1927 he participated in the Atlantic flight tests and in 1928 he piloted the Junkers W 33 "Bremen" on the first east-west crossing of the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
Source:
https://www.bsaktuell.de/gemeinde-landr ... ehl/38034/
Luftwaffen Revue. Nro 1 März 2018.
Cheers. Raúl M
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