Karl Gallwitz

{{Short description|World War I flying ace}} {{Infobox military person | name = Karl Gallwitz | image = | caption = | birth_date = 18 August 1895 | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1984|5|17|1895|8|18}} | burial_label = | burial_place = | birth_place = [[Sigmaringen]], [[German Empire]] | death_place = [[Göttingen]], [[West Germany]] | burial_coordinates =  | nickname = | allegiance = {{flag|German Empire}} | branch = ''[[Luftstreitkräfte]]'' | service_years = | rank = Leutnant | unit = ''Flieger-Abteilung (Artillerie) 231;''<br>''Flieger-Abteilung 37;''<br>''[[Jagdstaffel 29]];''<br>''[[Jagdstaffel 2]]'' | commands = | battles = | awards = [[Iron Cross]] First and Second Class | relations = | other_work = }} Leutnant '''Karl Gallwitz''' (18 August 1895 – 17 May 1984) was a World War I [[flying ace]] credited with ten aerial victories.<ref name=lines>{{cite book |title=''Above the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps 1914 - 1918'' |page= 113 }}</ref>

==Early life== Karl Gallwitz was born in [[Sigmaringen]], the [[German Empire]], in 1895.<ref name=lines/> He visited the Gymnasium-school in [[Nordhausen, Thuringia|Nordhausen]].{{cn|date=November 2017}} ==Aerial service== [[File:L.F.G. Roland D.III.jpg|left|thumb|A Roland D.III, as flown by Karl Gallwitz.]] Gallwitz originally flew a [[Roland D.III]] for artillery cooperation units on the Russian Front, shooting down two observation balloons with FA 37, before a brief assignment to Jasta 29. On 24 August 1917, he joined [[Jasta 2|Jasta Boelcke]] in France. He scored three times in October; the last one, on the 27th, was over [[Arthur Rhys-Davids]]. He started over again in 1918, scoring five more times, including bringing down British aces [[Robert Kirby Kirkman]] and [[John Herbert Hedley]]. Gallwitz finished out his tally of ten on 21 April 1918,<ref>The Aerodrome website http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/gallwitz.php Retrieved on 20 April 2010</ref> and crashed soon thereafter. Once he recuperated from his injuries, he was assigned to Inspekteur der Flieger.<ref name=lines/>

==Postwar== From 1919 he studied Mechanical engineering in Braunschweig, Danzig and Stuttgart.{{cn|date=November 2017}}

He later was a professor for agricultural machinery at the university of [[Göttingen]], where he taught from 1936 to 1965.{{cn|date=November 2017}}

==Sources of information== {{Reflist|2}}

==References== * ''Above the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps 1914 - 1918'' Norman L. R. Franks, et al. Grub Street, 1993. {{ISBN|0-948817-73-9}}, {{ISBN|978-0-948817-73-1}}.

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