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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Bio of Hauptmann Egon Albrecht (1918-1944)


Full nama: Egon Albrecht-Lemke
Nickname: Egon
Date of Birth: 19 May 1918 at Curitiba, Paraná (Brazil)
Date of Death: 25 August 1944 at Saint-Claude, Jura, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (France)
NSDAP Number: unknown
SS Number: unknown
Academic Title: unknown
Family Member: Father Frederico Albrecht; mother Hedwig Elditt Albrecht
Physical Feature: unknown

Beförderungen (Promotion):
1938 Fahnenjunker
1940 Leutnant
1942 Oberleutnant
1943 Hauptmann

Karriere (Career):
00.00.1940 Served in 9.Staffel / III.Gruppe / Zerstörergeschwader 76
24.04.1941 Now in 6.Staffel / II.Gruppe / SKG 210 (Schnellkampfgeschwader 210)
04.01.1942 Transferred to 6.Staffel / II.Gruppe / Zerstörergeschwader 1 due to unit renaming
12.06.1942 - 02.08.1943 Staffelkapitän 6.Staffel / II.Gruppe / Zerstörergeschwader 1
09.10.1943 - 00.07.1944 Gruppenkommandeur II.Gruppe / Zerstörergeschwader 1
24.07.1944 - 25.08.1944 Gruppenkommandeur III.Gruppe / Jagdgeschwader 76

Orden und Ehrenzeichen (Medals and Decorations):
00.00.19__ Goldenes Hitlerjugend Abzeichen
00.00.194_ Flugzeugführerabzeichen
00.00.194_ Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse
00.00.194_ Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse
00.00.194_ Frontflug-Spange in Bronze
00.00.194_ Frontflug-Spange in Silber
00.00.1942 Medaille "Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42"
21.09.1942 Luftwaffe Ehrenpokale für besondere Leistungen im Luftkrieg
00.00.194_ Verwundetenabzeichen, 1939 in Silber (or Gold)
00.00.194_ Frontflug-Spange in Gold
03.12.1942 Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
22.05.1943 Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes, as Oberleutnant and Staffelkapitän 6.Staffel / II.Gruppe / Zerstörergeschwader 1

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Egon Albrecht-Lemke (19 May 1918 – 25 August 1944) was born on 19 May 1918 in Curitiba, Brazil. He was the son of Frederico Albrecht and Hedwig Elditt Albrecht. By 1940, Albrecht-Lemke was serving with 6. Staffel of Zerstörergeschwader 1 (ZG 1—1st Destroyer Wing) operating Messerschmitt Bf 110 Zerstörer (destroyer) heavy fighter. After redesignation as 9./Zerstörergeschwader 76 (ZG 76) in June 1940, and then 6. Staffel of Schnellkampfgeschwader 210 (SKG 210—210th Fast Bomber Wing) in April 1941, Albrecht flew combat operation over the Eastern Front. In January 1942 6./SKG 210 became 6./ZG 1.

Albrecht-Lemke was appointed Staffelkapitän (squadron leader), 1./ZG 1 in June 1942. Now an Oberleutnant, Albrecht-Lemke was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) in May 1943 for 15 aerial victories, along with 11 aircraft, 162 motor vehicles, 254 covered vehicles, 3 locomotives, 8 Flak positions, 12 anti-tank gun positions and 8 infantry positions destroyed on the ground.

In October 1943, Albrecht succeeded Hauptmann Karl-Heinrich Matern who was killed in action on 8 October as Gruppenkommandeur (group commander) of II. Gruppe of ZG 1. The unit was relocated to the Western Front, based on the Atlantic coast of France, flying missions over the Bay of Biscay. Later in 1943, the Gruppe was transferred to Austria to combat the incursions from the Italian-based United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) 15th Air Force.

After heavy losses in July 1944, II./ZG 1 converted to the Messerschmitt Bf 109 G fighter and were redesignated as III./Jagdgeschwader 76. Albrecht-Lemke then led the unit in operations over the Invasion front in western France.

On 25 August 1944 Albrecht was intercepted by USAAF P-51 Mustang fighters and shot down in his Bf 109 G-14 near Creil. Albrecht-Lemke bailed out of his stricken aircraft but was dead when found on the ground.

Albrecht-Lemke was credited with 25 victories, with 15 victories claimed over the Eastern Front and 10 over the Western Front. This total included at least six B-24 four-engine USAAF bombers. In addition he claimed 11 aircraft destroyed on the ground on the Eastern Front.

Matthews and Foreman, authors of "Luftwaffe Aces — Biographies and Victory Claims", researched the German Federal Archives and found records for more than 18 aerial victory claims. This figure includes at least eleven aerial victories on the Eastern Front and seven four-engined bombers on the Western Front.






 
FLTR: Helmut Lent and Egon Albrecht

Source :
Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2008-0021
http://alifrafikkhan.blogspot.com/2009/11/hauptmann-egon-albrecht-1918-1944-pilot.html
https://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/dba/de/search/?topicid=dcx-thes_personen_774u7o4j3kp12ysysden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Albrecht-Lemke

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