Adolf Hempel (born January 26, 1915 in Dürrenbach, Schleiz District Office - died June 2, 1971 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg) was an officer in the Air Force of the Wehrmacht and later the Air Force of the Bundeswehr. Hempel joined the police in 1934 and switched to the flak group of the newly formed Luftwaffe on August 1, 1935. After he was promoted to first lieutenant on June 1, 1939, he took over a battery in flak regiment 8 as battery chief in November, followed as Zweiter Generalstabsoffizier (Ib) in the staff of the 17. Flak-Division. On December 30, 1942, he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross as chief of the staff battery in the anti-aircraft training regiment (motorized). Then he returned to the division staff. From February 24, 1944, he held the same position on the staff of III. Flakkorps from where, after being promoted to major, he was transferred to the General Staff of the Luftwaffe on September 1, 1944.
After the war Hempel studied philology. With a work on George Gissing as a naturalist in his youth works, he was awarded a Dr. phil. doctorate. Among other things, he worked as an exchange teacher in France, passed the state examination for teaching at higher schools in 1952 and worked as a study assessor. On May 2, 1956, he joined the Air Force of the Bundeswehr and served as Brigadier General from March 1, 1962 to September 30, 1962 and then again from April 1, 1966 to March 31, 1968 as Deputy Inspector of the Air Force. In between he was chief of staff in the Air Force command staff and from April 1, 1964 to March 31, 1966 commanded the 3. Luftwaffen-Division. He then took over the Air Force Office as a lieutenant general from April 1, 1968 to June 2, 1971.
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