Bio of Hauptmann Ernst Andres (1921-1945)

Full name: Ernst Andres
Nickname: Unknown
Date of Birth: 19 September 1921 at Pfullingen, Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
Date of Death: 11 February 1945 at Oelde, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany)
NSDAP Number: unknown
SS Number: unknown
Academic Title: unknown
Family Member: unknown
Physical Feature: unknown

Beförderungen (Promotion):
15.11.1939 Flieger
01.04.1940 Fahnenjunker
01.04.1940 Fahnenjunker-Gefreiter
01.06.1940 Fahnenjunker-Unteroffizier
01.09.1940 Fähnrich
01.02.1941 Oberfähnrich
00.07.1941 Leutnant
01.06.1943 Oberleutnant
00.00.1944 Hauptmann

Karriere (Career):
15.11.1939 entered the Luftwaffe and assigned to 2./Fl.Ausb.Rgt. 61
21.08.1940 transferred to FFS C 3
24.08.1940 transferred to FFS C 1
18.12.1940 transferred to BFS 1
18.01.1941 transferred to Grosse KFS 4
10.05.1941 transferred to IV./KG 2
00.07.1941 transferred to 5./KG 2
00.00.1943 transferred to Stab/KG 2
05.05.1943 badly WIA during a raid on Norwich, crash landed vic Landsmeer near Amsterdam. 26.07.1944 - 19.11.1944 Staffelkapitän 8./KG 2
00.09.1944 transferred to night fighters
30.12.1944 Staffelkapitän 5./NJG 4
11-12.02.1945 KIA in Ju 88 G-1 (3C+FN) shot down by a RAF Mosquito while he was taking off from Gütersloh, crashed at Landmeer, N of Amsterdam
 
Orden und Ehrenzeichen (Medals and Decorations):
00.00.19__ Flugzeugführerabzeichen
00.00.19__ Eisernes Kreuz II.Klasse
00.00.19__ Eisernes Kreuz I.Klasse
00.00.19__ Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Schwarz
01.07.1942 Flugzeugbeobachterabzeichen
00.00.194_ Frontflugspange für Kampfflieger in Gold
03.12.1942 Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
20.04.1944 Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes, as Oberleutnant and Flugzeugführer in Stab / Kampfgeschwader 2 (KG 2). Awarded after flying about 120 sorties.

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• During the night of 4 May 1943 to 5 May Angriffsführer England ordered a consolidated attack on Norwich. Involved were 43 aircraft from Kampfgeschwader 2 (KG 2) under the command of KG 2's Geschwaderkommodore Walter Bradel, which took off from the airport of Soesterberg. The attack force was augmented by aircraft from II./Kampfgeschwader 40 and 36 Ju 88 from Kampfgeschwader 6. Bradel, who flying as an observer on a Do 217K piloted by Andres, was attacked by a British nightfighter, and suffered engine damage. Andres attempted an emergency landing near Landsmeer, Amsterdam. The aircraft was 80% damaged and Bradel and the aerial gunner Flieger Werner Becker were killed.
• Ernst Andres was killed on 11th February 1945 as Staffelkapitän 5. / Nachtjagdgeschwader 4 with the rank of Hauptmann.
• Credited with 130 bomber missions and 30 night fighter missions.

Source :
"Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries" by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Andres
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwis38_c3Kn2AhU9_XMBHaUMDC0QFnoECAkQAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ritterkreuztraeger.info%2Frk%2Fa%2FA067Andres.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0e0CBOXy3Dz6Tq8RbQ_8rG
https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/21540/Andres-Ernst.htm