# Karl Gallwitz

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World War I flying ace

Karl Gallwitz Born 18 August 1895 Sigmaringen, German Empire Died 17 May 1984(1984-05-17) (aged 88) Göttingen, West Germany Allegiance German Empire Branch Luftstreitkräfte Rank Leutnant Unit Flieger-Abteilung (Artillerie) 231; Flieger-Abteilung 37; Jagdstaffel 29; Jagdstaffel 2 Awards Iron Cross First and Second Class

Leutnant **Karl Gallwitz** (18 August 1895 – 17 May 1984) was a World War I [flying ace](/source/Flying_ace) credited with ten aerial victories.[1]

## Early life

Karl Gallwitz was born in [Sigmaringen](/source/Sigmaringen), the [German Empire](/source/German_Empire), in 1895.[1] He visited the Gymnasium-school in [Nordhausen](/source/Nordhausen%2C_Thuringia).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## Aerial service

A Roland D.III, as flown by Karl Gallwitz.

Gallwitz originally flew a [Roland D.III](/source/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 Boelcke](/source/Jasta_2) in France. He scored three times in October; the last one, on the 27th, was over [Arthur Rhys-Davids](/source/Arthur_Rhys-Davids). He started over again in 1918, scoring five more times, including bringing down British aces [Robert Kirby Kirkman](/source/Robert_Kirby_Kirkman) and [John Herbert Hedley](/source/John_Herbert_Hedley). Gallwitz finished out his tally of ten on 21 April 1918,[2] and crashed soon thereafter. Once he recuperated from his injuries, he was assigned to Inspekteur der Flieger.[1]

## Postwar

From 1919 he studied Mechanical engineering in Braunschweig, Danzig and Stuttgart.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

He later was a professor for agricultural machinery at the university of [Göttingen](/source/G%C3%B6ttingen), where he taught from 1936 to 1965.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## Sources of information

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-lines_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-lines_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-lines_1-2) Above the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps 1914 - 1918. p. 113.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** The Aerodrome website [http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/gallwitz.php](http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/gallwitz.php) Retrieved on 20 April 2010

## 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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-948817-73-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-948817-73-9), [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-948817-73-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-948817-73-1).

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