Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik

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.

Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik
Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik
Born10 December 1891
Died17 June 1985(1985-06-17) (aged 93)
Allegiance Nazi Germany
Service/branchLuftwaffe (1934–45)
Years of service1909–19
1934–45
RankGeneralmajor
Battles/warsWorld War II
AwardsKnight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Signature
The winner of the Challenge International de Tourisme 1930, Morzik at Berlin Tempelhof Airport, July 1930

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).[1]

Awards and decorations

References
  1. The Candy Bombers The Berlin Airlift, 1948/49 : the Technical Conditions and Their Successful Transformation Von Wolfgang J. Huschke · 2008 (books.google.de).
  2. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 258.

Bibliography
  • Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) [1986]. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile [The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.
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