Hans Siburg

Hans Siburg
Birth name	Hans Ludwig Max Emil Erwin Herrmann Siburg
Birth date	24 June 1893 (1893-06-24)
Place of birth	Saarburg, Kreis Saarburg, Bezirk Lothringen, Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire
Death date	27 February 1976 (1976-02-28) (aged 82)
Place of death	Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, West Germany
Allegiance	German Empire Weimar Republic National Socialist Germany
Service/branch	Kaiserliche Marine Reichsmarine DLV Luftwaffe
Years of service	1912–1918 1919–1935 1935–1945
Rank	General der Flieger
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Iron Cross War Merit Cross (1939) German Cross in Silver
Relations	∞ 1926 Elisabeth Tüllmann ∞ 1940 Hilde Haak

Hans Ludwig Max Emil Erwin Herrmann Siburg (24 June 1893 – 27 February 1976) was a German officer of the Imperial German Navy, the Reichsmarine and the Wehrmacht, finally General der Flieger of the Luftwaffe in World War II.

Life

• 1899 to 1900 Preschool in Saarburg
• 1900 to 1905 School and Gymnasium in Königsberg
• 1905 to 1910 Gymnasium in Kassel
• 1910 to 1912 Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium in Posen
  • Easter 1912 Abitur

Military career (chronology)

Luftwaffe Colonel Siburg

Reich Commissioner Hans Böhmcker, Germanist Jan van Dam and Lieutenant General Hans Siburg on 3 February 1942 in Amsterdam

Konteradmiral Gustav Kleikamp, Commanding Admiral in the Netherlands, and General der Flieger Hans Siburg, Commanding General and Commander in Air District Holland, in Amsterdam on 27 June 1943

• 1.4.1912 Joined the Imperial German Navy (Crew 1912)
  • Initial training on land and training aboard ships
• 1912/13 Marineschule (Naval School)
• 1913/14 Weapons course
• 1914 to 1918 WWI
  • Siburg transferred to the naval ​​aviators (de) and was a pilot since May 1915
  • 5 July 1916 Imperial Russian POW, interned in a Russian camp in Siberia
  • 17 September 1917 Escaped and on the run
  • 13 November 1917 Reached the German embassy in Stockholm
  • 15 to 16 November 1917 Return to Berlin
  • 17 November 1917 Report to the Admiralty
  • 24 to 25 November 1917 Return to the I. Naval Aviation Battalion (I. Seefliegerabteilung) in Kiel
  • 25 December 1917 Promotion to 1st Lieutenant
• 24 October 1918 to 10 July 1919 Seaplane Test Command (SVK) in Warnemünde
• 27 September 1919 Newly sworn-in
• 11 July 1919 to 16 June 1920 Adjutant of the I. Seefliegerabteilung
• 27 October 1920 to 18 April 1922 Officer of the watch on the survey ships "Triton" (the former Falke), later "Panther" in Kiel under Lieutenant Captain Waldemar Bender (later Rear Admiral of the Kriegsmarine)
• 19 April to 15 July 1922 Nautical Department/Naval Comand (Marineleitung)
• 1 August to 12 September 1922 Deputy navigation officer on the cruiser "Berlin"
• 16 September 1922 to 21 February 1923 Watch and survey officer on the cruiser "Berlin"
• 22 February 1923 to 13 January 1924 Watch and survey officer on the survey ship "Panther"
  • 1 August to 30 September 1923 At the same time commandant of "Peilboot III"
• 14 January 1924 Survey officer on the cruiser "Berlin"
• 24 March to 30 September 1924 Commandant of "Peilboot III"
• 15 November 1924 to 22 March 1926 Navigation officer on the survey ship "Meteor"
  • Meteor entered service in November 1924 and made her maiden survey expedition between 20 January and 17 February 1925 with the main purpose to check the equipment. On 16 April 1925, Meteor started the "German Atlantic expedition" that explored the South Atlantic ocean from the equatorial region to Antarctica in 1925–1927. Depth soundings, water temperature studies, water samples, studies of marine life and atmospheric observations were conducted.
• 23 March to 29 April 1926 Return home on the steam turbine ship "Urundi" of the German East Africa Line (DOAL)
• 30 April 1926 Service with the Baltic Sea Naval Station in Kiel
• 1926 to 1929 Service on the "Drache", the "Nymphe" (small cruiser) and the pre-dreadnought battleship "Hessen" (as of 1.10.1928)
• 7 October to 13 December 1929 Acting commandant of the artillery tender and school boat "Drache"
• 22 January 1930 Service with the Air Protection Group in the Reich Ministry of Defense
  • during this time he received secret pilot training
• 31.8.1933 Discharged from the Reichsmarine
• 1.9.1933 Transferred to the Ministry of Aviation (Reichsluftfahrtministerium; RLM) as head of a department
• 1.6.1934 At disposal of the inspector of schools (Luftwaffe)
• 8.6.1934 Acting commander of the Sea Aviation School in Warnemünde
• 15 July to 15 September 1934 Fact-finding trip to the USA
• 1 October 1934 Commander of the Aviation Schools (Sea), concurrently commandant of the airport Warnemünde (in 1936, Hans Ritter would become his successor)
• 7 November 1934 Newly sworn-in
• 1.2.1936 Appointed Offizier z. b. V. and commanded to the Fliegergruppe (See) Tutow
• 15.3.1936 with effect from 15.3.1936 Commanded to the Fliegergruppe Merseburg
• 1.4.1936 Commodore of the Kampfgeschwader 153 (KG 153)
• 1.9.1936 Ia with the General Staff/Air District Command VII, concurrently provisional Chief of Staff
• 1.3.1937 Commander of the Pilot Schools and Aircraft Replacement Battalions in Air District Command VII
• 1.11.1938 Commodore of the Kampfgeschwader 257 (KG 257) as the successor of Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen
• 1.5.1939 Commodore of the Kampfgeschwader 26 (KG 26)
• 29.9.1939 Inspector for aviation navigation, blind flying and weather service (L.In.12)/General Staff of the Luftwaffe
• 6.5.1940 Chief of Staff/Air District (Luftgau) Norway
• 1.7.1940 Commanding General and Commander in the Air Region (Luftgau) Holland
• 7.8.1943 Head of the Luftwaffe administrative office in the Ministry of Aviation (RLM)
• 1.4.1945 Placed at the disposal of the Air District Command XI (Führerreserve)
• 1945 to 1947 POW
  • 10.5.1945 captured at Tönning by the British and transferred to England
  • 5.12.1945 repatriated
  • 8.7.1947 released

Family

Hans was the son senior government building council (Oberregierungsbaurat) Friedrich Anton Siburg (b. 31 March 1856 in Braunschweig; d. 31 January 1926 in Hannover) and his wife Wilhelmine "Minna", née Heller (b. 2 May 1866 in Bergen, Kreis Hanau).

Marriages

On 30 August 1926 in Hannover, Kapitänleutnant Siburg married his fiancée Elisabeth Tüllmann (b. 14 December 1904), daughter of a Protestant pastor in Hannover. The couple would have two children:

• Elisabeth (b. 16 August 1927 in Kiel)
• Friedrich-Wilhelm (b. 30 January 1931 in Berlin; d. 6 June 2005); Dr. jur. Siburg was an academic, jurist (PhD in 1963 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Dissertation: Die Anbietungspflicht in der landwirtschaftlichen Marktordnung), Chancellor of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität of Freiburg im Breisgau (1970–1994) as well as spokesman of the Association of German University Chancellors and Senior Administrative Official of the Academic Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany and Berlin

Hans and Elisabeth were divorced on 13 July 1936. In November 1940, Lieutenant General Siburg received permission to marry Hilde Adele Henriette Haak (b. 30 August 1920 in Hamburg).

Promotions

• 1.4.1912: Seekadett (Officer Candidate)
• 12.4.1913: Fähnrich zur See (Officer Cadet)
• 22.3.1915: Leutnant zur See (2nd Lieutenant)
• 25.12.1917: Oberleutnant zur See (1st Lieutenant)
• 1.5.1922: Kapitänleutnant (Lieutenant Captain)
• 1.7.1930: Korvettenkapitän (Corvette Captain / Lieutenant Commander)
• 1.4.1934: Fregattenkapitän (Frigate Captain / Commander)
• 31.5.1934: DLV-Fliegervizekommodore (Lieutenant Colonel of the Deutscher Luftsport-Verband)
• 1.3.1935: Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) with Rank Seniority (RDA) from 1.4.1934
• 16.3.1936: Oberst (Colonel) with effect and Rank Seniority (RDA) from 1 March 1936
• 1.1.1939: Generalmajor (Major General)
• 1.11.1940: Generalleutnant (Lieutenant General)
• 1.4.1942: General der Flieger

Awards and decorations

• Naval Pilot Badge (Abzeichen für Marine-Flugzeugführer)
  • he first received the license for land planes (Abzeichen für Marine-Flugzeugführer auf Landflugzeugen), later, as his personnel file shows (BArch PERS 6/329), expanded to sea planes (Abzeichen für Marine-Flugzeugführer auf Seeflugzeugen)
• Iron Cross (1914), 2nd and 1st Class
  • 2nd Class on 17 October 1915
  • 1st Class on 13 July 1916
• Commemorative Badge for Naval Aircraft Pilots and Observers (Erinnerungsabzeichen für Marine-Flugzeugführer und -Beobachter) on 19 June 1920
• The Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 with Swords on 20 February 1935
• Wehrmacht Pilot Badge (Flugzeugführerabzeichen) on 30 July 1935
  • also military aircraft license (sea) on 27 September 1937
• Order of the White Rose of Finland, Commander 2nd Class on 31 July 1935
• Wehrmacht Long Service Award (Wehrmacht-Dienstauszeichnung), 4th to 1st Class
  • 2nd Class on 2 October 1936
  • 1st Class on 1 April 1937
• Plaque of Honor of Fighter Wing 257 (Ehrenplakette des Kampfgeschwaders 257)
• Repetition Clasp 1939 to the Iron Cross 1914 (1939), 2nd and 1st Class
  • 2nd Class on 12 September 1939
  • 1st Class on 6 June 1942
• Italian Pilot Badge (italienisches Flugzeugführerabzeichen)
• War Merit Cross (1939), 2nd and 1st Class with Swords
• German Cross in Silver on 20 March 1944 as General der Flieger and Commanding General and Commander in the Air District (Luftgau) Holland