Günther Radusch – Wikipedia

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Günther Radusch (Born November 11, 1912 in Schwetz, West Prussia, † July 29, 1988 in Nordstrand) was a German officer, most recently the Colonel of the Bundeswehr Air Force.

Radusch’s father was a rector. [first] He graduated from high school in 1931 and then went to the German traffic pilot school (DVS) in Schleißheim. In 1932 he received a secret aircraft training in Lipezz, by circumventing the Versailles Treaty. [2] After completing them, Radusch returned to Germany and was assigned to the 4th Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr in order to maintain its basic infantry training. He then visited the Reichswehr Infantry School in Dresden, which he finished in October 1934, now in the rank of a lieutenant.

Afterwards, Radusch acted as a hunting teacher at the fighter pilot school in Schleißheim in the Air Force, which was exposed in 1935. From September 1936 to May 1937, Raduschs was deployed to the Legion Condor in the rank of Lieutenant. On the side of the right -wing putschists under General Francisco Franco, he took part in the Spanish Civil War. He was in action here as deputy relay captain of the test hunting season 88 and flew a copy of the HE 112 fighter plane. In addition, he also had missions on Messerschmitt BF 109. [3] [4] In May 1937, Radusch returned to Germany with an air victory achieved.

From June 1937 to May 1939, Radusch was involved in the construction of the night hunting weapon. Here he led as a relay captain a destroyer teaching group in Barth, which experimented in day hunting Messerschmitt Messerschmitt BF 110 and in the night hunt with AR 68 machines. [3] In May 1939, Radusch was commanded to the Reich Aviation Ministry, where, in the rank of a captain, he was a speaker Destroyer and night hunt At the there Inspection of the fighter pilot served.

After the end of the western campaign, Radusch was appointed relay captain of the 2nd season of the destroyer squadron 1. The first group, in which Radusch’s relay was also involved, was converted to night hunt in Düsseldorf from July 1940. The group opened in the night hunting squadron 1 in the same month. [3] [5] The Njg 1 Then flew air defense operations in the Netherlands and on the Lower Rhine. As a group manor of the I./NJG 1 Funged Radusch as training manager for other night hunting associations in Vechta and Schleswig. [3]

On August 1, 1943, Radusch was commissioned to lead the night hunt squadron 5, which was in Döberitz in the line -up. The squadron was tactically subordinate to the 4th hunting division. [6] On February 13, 1943, Radusch was awarded the German Cross in Gold and on August 29, 1943 the knight’s cross of the Iron Cross. [7] On February 1, 1944, Radusch, now promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, was successor to Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, who had died on January 21, 1944, as the commodore of the night hunt squadron 2. Here Radusch received the oak leaves on February 6, 1944. Knight’s cross the Iron Cross awarded. [7] On November 1, 1944, Radusch was appointed commodore of the night hunting squadron 3. He succeeded Helmut Lent there, who had suffered his injuries suffered in a flight accident on October 7, 1944. In January 1945, Radusch was promoted to colonel. In February 1945, Radusch’s briefing for the night hunter Focke-Wulf TA 154. [8] However, in his capacity as a squadron commodore of the NJG 3, he rejected the use of this type of aircraft due to a lack of performance. [9] With around 140 enemy flights, Radusch 64 air victories, [ten] Of which a Tababo shot in Spain. [11] [twelfth] Other sources put the number of his night victories at 63. [13]

At the end of the war, Radusch came into captivity in British, from which he was released in 1947. [3] Then he temporarily transferred the service of the US forces. On September 1, 1958, Radusch, in the rank of a upper, joined the Bundeswehr. By the end of March 1964, he commanded Airplane School A in Landsberg am Lech. Subsequently, Radusch was in air defense until his retirement in 1971. After retirement, Radusch moved to Munich. [3]

In 1988 Radusch died in Nordstrand.

  1. ↑ Georg Brütting: The book of German flight history , Three Brunnen Verlag Stuttgart 1979, Volume 3, p. 484.
  2. ↑ Brütting S. 484.
  3. ↑ a b c d It is f Brütting S. 485.
  4. ↑ Patrick Laureau: Condor: The Luftwaffe in Spain, 1936–39. Stackpole 2010, S. 347., 376.
  5. ↑ Georg Tessin: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939–1945 , Volume 14, Flying Associations, Biblio-Verlag 1998, ISBN 978-3-7648-111-2, p. 327.
  6. ↑ For equipment, the locations and areas of application also of the units mentioned, see Wolfgang Dierich: The associations of the Air Force 1935-1945 -Structure and short chronicles, Motorbuch-Verlag Stuttgart 1976, pp. 64f., 67f., 70, 79; Radusch is not mentioned in the book.
  7. ↑ a b Veit Scherzer: The owners of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross in 1939 by Heer, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and with Germany allied forces according to the documents of the Federal Archives. Scherzers Militaer Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, S. 610
  8. ↑ Dietmar Hermann: Focke-Wulf Nachtjäger TA 154 “Moskito”-Development, production and troop testing, Lemwerder Stedinger 2006, ISBN 978-3-927697-46-1, p. 159.
  9. ↑ Dietmar Hermann: Focke-Wulf Nachtjäger TA 154 “Moskito”-Development, production and troop test, Lemwerder Stedinger 2006, ISBN 978-3-927697-46-1, pp. 162f.
  10. ↑ Trevor J. Constable, Raymond F. Toliver: Horrido! Fighter aces of the luftwaffe. Macmillan New York 1968, S. 136; Christopher Chant: The Illustrated History Of The Air Forces Of World War I & World War II. Galley 1979, S. 275.
  11. ↑ Obermaier: The Luftwaffe’s knight’s cross carriers- Stuka and Battleflower flyers 1939–1945. Verlag Dieter Hoffmann, Mainz 1976, p. 69.
  12. ↑ Raymond F. Toliver, Trevor J. Constable: That was the German fighter pilot breed 1939-1945 , Motorbuch-Verlag Stuttgart, 15th edition 1994, ISBN 3-87943-193-0, p. 404.
  13. ↑ Len Deighton: Bomber. Signet 1971, S. 446.