Erich Mix

Erich Mix
Erich Mix
Born	27 June 1898
Died	9 April 1971 (aged 72)
Allegiance	German Cross in Gold
Other work	Mayor of Wiesbaden

Erich Mix (27 June 1898 in Labuhnken (now Trzcińsk, Poland) in West Prussia (now Starogard Gdański) – 9 April 1971 in Wiesbaden) was a German flying ace during World War II, a politician, a member of the Nazi Party, and later a member of the Free Democratic Party.

Biography

Mix fought as an infantryman in World War I before he trained as a fighter pilot and posted to Jagdstaffel 54, where, as an Unteroffizer from June 1918 until the end of the war, he scored three aerial victories (and one unconfirmed balloon) of Jasta 54's total of 22 victories, for which he was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross.^[1]

After the war, he studied law at the

Tilsit (now Sovetsk, Russia) in 1934-37, later of Wiesbaden in 1937-45 and 1954-60. In his first term as mayor of Wiesbaden, most of the Jewish community of Wiesbaden, some 2,700 people in 1933, were murdered and their synagogues were burned, under Mix's leadership. (However, he was again elected mayor in 1954, and he was buried in the honorary section of the Wiesbaden graveyard till 2014.)^{[dubious – discuss}

]

In 1935, he started flying again, training as an observer and then as a fighter pilot in 1937.

Serving as technical officer with I./

Otto Bertram.^[2] Mix's final claim was a Bristol Blenheim over The Hague (Den Haag) in July 1941, while commanding JG 1

. He later served as Jafü Bretagne ( Fighter Leader, Brittany) from April 1943 onwards. During World War II, he claimed eight (potentially 13) aerial victories.

References

^ Prien 1997, p. 43.
^ John Weal, 'JG 2 Richthofen', page 64

Bibliography

Cony, Christophe & Martin, Pierre (May 1999). "D'une guerre à l'autre: Erich Mix" [From One War to Another: Erich Mix]. Avions: Toute l'aéronautique et son histoire (in French) (74): 38–41.
ISSN 1243-8650
.

Prien, Jochen (1997). Jagdgeschwader 53 A History of the "Pik As" Geschwader March 1937 - May 1942. Atglen, Pennsylvania:
ISBN 0-7643-0175-6
.

External links

Erich Mix in the German National Library catalogue
"Wiesbaden Landeshauptstadt". Die Wiesbadener Oberbürgermeister seit dem Bau des neuen Rathauses (1886). Retrieved 2 December 2007.

Government offices
Preceded by Hans Heinrich Redlhammer	Mayor of Wiesbaden February 25, 1954 – February 25, 1960	Succeeded by Georg Buch
Military offices
Preceded by Major Erich von Selle	Commander of Jagdgeschwader 1 Oesau August, 1942 – March 31, 1943	Succeeded by Oberstleutnant Hans Philipp
Preceded by Oberstleutnant Walter Oesau	Commander of Jagdfliegerführer Bretagne December 1, 1943 – August 31, 1944	Succeeded by disbanded

[1] Prien 1997, p. 43.

[2] John Weal, 'JG 2 Richthofen', page 64

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