Bio of Hauptmann Heinrich Schmetz (1914-2004)

Full nama: Heinrich Schmetz
Nickname: unknown
Date of Birth: 22 October 1914 at Essen, Ruhr (Germany)
Date of Death: 22 July 2004 at Gauting, Münich (Germany)
NSDAP Number: unknown
SS Number: unknown
Academic Title: unknown
Family Member: unknown
Physical Feature: unknown

Beförderungen (Promotion):
00.00.1938 Leutnant der Reserve
01.10.1943 Hauptmann

Karriere (Career):
Fall of 1935 Joined the Luftwaffe, training initially with Fl.Üb.Stelle at Weimar-Nohra
00.00.1936 Assigned to I./KG 253 at Gotha as a Beobachter
00.09.1937 Given leave to resume his studies in aircraft design
00.00.1938 Leutnant der Reserve in IV./KG 254 at Gütersloh
00.09.1939 Posted in 7./KG 4
31.05.1940 7./KG 4 unhurt when his Ju 88 A-1 (5J+JR) was shot down by fighters near Vlisseghem/Belgium, force landing safely
15.10.1940 Now in III./KG 30 due to unit renaming, becoming a member of Hajo Herrmann's crew
00.01.1942 Began pilot training with FFS A/B 61, then with FFS C 2. (n.d.) transfer to 3./KGr. 21
01.02.1943 Staffelkapitän 3./KGr. 21 (renamed as 9./KG 100 on 29.04.43)
00.02.1943 Transfer to Erprobungskommando 21 at Garz/Usedom
00.05.1943 Transfer to III./KG 100
15.04.1944 - 15.06.1944 Staffelkapitän 11./KG 100
16.07.1944 Acting Gruppenkommandeur III./KG 100
00.08.1944 - 07.09.1944 Gruppenkommandeur III./KG 100
00.09.1944 Temporarily assigned to the General der Kampfflieger to be the course director at the Verbandsführerschule
00.11.1944 Acting Gruppenkommandeur II./KG 100
00.02.1945 Ia in Stab/Bevollmächtigten zur besonderen Verwendung für Sonderwaffen der Luftwaffe
00.00.1956 Joined the postwar Bundewehr and served as an Oberst

Orden und Ehrenzeichen (Medals and Decorations):
20.05.1940 Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938
20.05.1940 Eisernes Kreuz II.Klasse
27.09.1940 Eisernes Kreuz I.Klasse
25.05.1941 Frontflugspange für Kampfflieger in Gold
05.09.1941 Medaglia de bronzo al Valore (Italy)
30.09.1941 Ehrenpokal der Luftwaffe
18.05.1943 Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
12.09.1944 Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Schwarz
28.09.1944 Ärmelband Kreta
29.10.1944 Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes, as Hauptmann and Gruppenkommandeur III.Gruppe / Kampfgeschwader 100 (awarded after flying over 250 sorties as a bomber pilot/observer, and for leading his Gruppe to great success against Allied warships and merchant shipping in the Mediterranean.)

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Source :
"Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries" by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey
https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/26387/Schmetz-Heinrich.htm