Nickname(s) Fritz Years of service 1909–191935–45 | Name Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik | |
Commands held Kampfgeschwader z.b.V. 1 and Lufttransportfuhrer Ost of Luftflotte 1 Battles/wars World War IWorld War IIAnnexation of the SudetenlandOperation BarbarossaDemyansk Pocket Died June 17, 1985, Freudenstadt, Germany Books German Air Force Airlift Operations Service/branch German Army (1909–1911), Luftstreitkrafte (1911–1919), Luftwaffe (1935–1945) | ||
Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik (10 December 1891 – 17 June 1985) was a general in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
Morzik was a winner in the first International Tourist Plane Contest Challenge and the second Challenge in 1930. In 1935 he started service in the Air Force (Luftwaffe), as a commandant of pilots' school. In World War II he became a head of Luftwaffe Transport Command, in a rank of Generalmajor.
After the war he wrote a detailed story of German transport aviation during the war: Die deutschen Transportflieger im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Frankfurt am Main, 1966) and German Air Force Airlift Operations (New York: Arno Press, 1968).
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