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Generalmajor a. D. Fritz Morzik
FRIEDRICH-WILHELM “FRITZ” MORZIK (10 December 1891 - 17 June 1985) was a general in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany during World War II. He received the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross in 1942.
Bor...view moreFRIEDRICH-WILHELM “FRITZ” MORZIK (10 December 1891 - 17 June 1985) was a general in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany during World War II. He received the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross in 1942.
Born in 1891 in Passenheim, Germany, he joined the Army aged 15 and attended the NCO Army School in Treptow. He enrolled in pilot training in 1915 and served during World War I. After the war, he left the Army in 1921 and became an instructor at the Communication Pilots’ School in Brunswick, advancing to the position of vice director of the school in Berlin in 1928. Morzik was an active sports pilot, winning the first International Tourist Plane Contest Challenge and the second Challenge in 1930.
In 1935 he commenced service in the German Luftwaffe as a commandant of the pilots’ school. At the outbreak of World War II he began service as commander of the Special Purpose Combat Group until 1940, commander of the Regional Transport Glider Group ME 321 until 1941, Air Transport Leader with the General Quartermaster of the Luftwaffe, and commander of the Blind Flight Schools until 1943, before rising through to the rank of Major General. He served as a Flying Leader (to 1944), General (to 1945), and Air Transport Chief, until his captivity by the U.S. Forces on 14 May 1945.
After WWII, Morzik wrote a detailed story of German transport aviation during WWII: Die deutschen Transportflieger im Zweiten Weltkrieg (1966) and German Air Force Airlift Operations (1961).
He died in Freudenstadt, Germany in 1985 at the age of 93.view less