List of World War II aces from Germany

Two aircraft were the backbone of the Luftwaffe fighter force during World War II: the Messerschmitt Bf 109 (shown above) and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190.

This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from Germany. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat.[1] It is relatively certain that 2,500 German fighter pilots attained ace status, having achieved at least five aerial victories.[2]

German day and night fighter pilots claimed roughly 70,000 aerial victories during World War II, over 25,000 British or American and over 45,000 Soviet aircraft. 103 German fighter pilots each shot down 100 or more enemy aircraft, for a total of approximately 15,400 victories. Approximately 360 German fighter pilots shot down from 40 to 99 enemy aircraft for a total of approximately 21,000 victories. Approximately 500 German fighter pilots shot down from 20 to 39 enemy aircraft for a total of approximately 15,000 victories. These achievements were honored with 453 German day fighter pilots and Zerstörer (destroyer) fighter pilots and 85 German night fighter pilots (including 14 crew members), for a total of 538 German fighter pilots, receiving the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.[3]

German losses, on the other hand, were very high as well. Roughly 12,000 German day fighter pilots were killed or are still missing in action, with a further 6,000 being wounded. The Zerstörer (destroyer) pilots suffered about 2,800 casualties, either killed or missing in action, plus another 900 wounded in action. German night fighter losses were also high, in the magnitude of 3,800 pilots or crew members killed or missing and 1,400 wounded. Hans-Ulrich Rudel was the most decorated flying ace in the Luftwaffe, primarily as a ground-attack bomber pilot with over 800 vehicles destroyed in addition to his victories over opposing aircraft.[4]

## Background

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There are a number of reasons why Germany's highest-scoring pilots shot down many more aircraft than the most successful Allied pilots. During the first years of the war, German day fighter pilots tended to enjoy favourable tactical circumstances; for instance, during the Battle of Britain British pilots generally tried to attack the German bombers rather than the fighters protecting them. German combat tactics during this period also tended to be superior to those of the Allies, with formation leaders in particular often having a higher chance of success.[5]

Formal and informal Luftwaffe practices also contributed to the high numbers of victories achieved by some pilots. The normal practice in fighter units was for the highest-scoring pilot to lead formations, regardless of their rank, which placed them in the best position to shoot down Allied aircraft. The German pilots also typically conducted much more combat flying than their Allied equivalents: while the western Allied air forces frequently rested their fighter pilots or rotated them out of combat zones after a certain number of missions or flying hours, German pilots were required to fly until they became casualties.[6]

### Accuracy of claims

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Main article: Confirmation and overclaiming of aerial victories

During the 1990s, the German archives made available to the public, including microfilm rolls of wartime records not seen since January 1945.[7] They show that although the Luftwaffe generally did not accept a "kill" without a witness (in which instance it was considered only a probable and didn't count in the victory scoring process), some pilots habitually submitted unwitnessed claims and these sometimes made it through the verification process, particularly if they were made by pilots with established records.[7] Unlike all of the other air forces that fought during World War II, the Luftwaffe did not accept shared claims, but sometimes it happened. Each claim should have referred to a particular aircraft, but some victories were awarded to other pilots who had claimed the destruction of the same aircraft.[7] From mid-year 1943 through 1944, the OKW communiques often overstated Allied bomber losses by a factor of up to two; these claims existed only in the communiques and weren't used in victory scoring. Defenders of the German fighter pilots maintain that overclaims were eliminated during the confirmation process, but the microfilms show that this wasn't always the case.[7] Stringent reviews and comparisons of Allied archives and German archives show that 90 percent of the claims submitted were confirmed, or found to be "in order" for confirmation, up to the time the system broke down altogether in 1945.[7]

## Aces

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* Erich Hartmann, the highest scoring German and all time ace

* Erich Rudorffer, claimed thirteen aerial victories on a single mission

* Hans-Joachim Marseille, the highest scoring German ace over the Western Allies

* Werner Mölders, the first pilot to claim 100 aerial victories

* Adolf Galland, the last pilot to claim 100 aerial victories

* Egon Mayer, claimed 26 heavy bombers shot down[8]

By surname: A–F • G–L • M–P • Q–S • T–Z

## Pilots with more than 100 aerial victory claims

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According to Obermaier, 103 Luftwaffe pilots were credited with more than 100 aerial victories.[9] Mathews and Foreman, authors of Luftwaffe Aces – Biographies and Victory Claims, researched the German Federal Archives and list 94 Luftwaffe pilots in this category. The authors differentiate between confirmed and unconfirmed claims. In consequence the following pilots were not listed by Mathews and Foreman.[10]

* Eberhard von Boremski, listed with at least 88 aerial victories, plus two unconfirmed claims, potentially further aerial victories with EJG 1.[11]
* Kurt Bühligen, listed with 99 aerial victory claims, plus nine further unconfirmed claims.[12]
* Walther Dahl, claimed at least 90 aerial victories, plus further 13 unconfirmed claims.[13]
* Siegfried Freytag, listed with 89 aerial victories.[14]
* Friedrich Geißhardt, listed with 93 aerial victory claims, plus eight further unconfirmed claims.[15]
* Hartmann Grasser, listed with more than 96 aerial victory claims, plus six further unconfirmed claims.[16]
* Kurt Tanzer, listed with at least 35 aerial victories.[17]
* Kurt Ubben, listed with 93 aerial victory claims, plus 13 further unconfirmed claims.[18]
* Franz Woidich, listed with 82 aerial victory claims, plus thirty further unconfirmed claims.[19]

Additionally, Spick lists Horst-Günther von Fassong with 136 aerial victories, Rudolf Rademacher with 126 aerial victories, and Herbert Rollwage with 102 aerial victories.[20] Further more, the US historian David T. Zabecki states that Friedrich Wachowiak was credited with 140 aerial victories,[21] and Paul-Heinrich Dähne with 100 aerial victories.[22] Lastly, the authors Raymond F. Toliver and Trevor James Constable list Rudolf Müller with 101 aerial victories.[23]

This along with the ! (exclamation mark), indicates the first pilot to reach the 100th, 150th, 200th, 250th, or 300th victory claim.

This and the ? (question mark) indicates information discrepancies listed by Obermaier, Prien, Stemmer, Rodeike, Bock, Mathews and Foreman.

Name  | 100th Claim  | 150th Claim  | 200th Claim  | 250th Claim  | 300th Claim

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Werner Mölders | 15 July 1941![24] |  |  |  |
Günther Lützow | 24 October 1941[25] |  |  |  |
Walter Oesau | 26 October 1941[26] |  |  |  |
Hans Philipp | 31 March 1942[27] | 14 January 1943[28] | 17 March 1943[29] |  |
Herbert Ihlefeld | 22 April 1942[30] |  |  |  |
Max-Hellmuth Ostermann | 12 May 1942[31] |  |  |  |
Hermann Graf | 14 May 1942[32] | 4 September 1942[33] | 26 September 1942![34] |  |
Adolf Dickfeld | 18 May 1942[35] |  |  |  |
Heinrich Bär | 19 May 1942[36] | 27 January 1943[37] | 22 April 1944[38] |  |
Gordon Gollob | 20 May 1942[39] | 29 August 1942![40] |  |  |
Hans-Joachim Marseille | 17 June 1942[41] | 15 September 1942[42] |  |  |
Erwin Clausen | 22 July 1942[43] |  |  |  |
Heinrich Setz | 24 July 1942[44] |  |  |  |
Viktor Bauer | 25 July 1942[45] |  |  |  |
Franz-Josef Beerenbrock | 1 August 1942[46] |  |  |  |
Anton Hackl | 5 August 1942[47] | 9 July 1944 |  |  |
Kurt Brändle | 22 August 1942[48] | 5 July 1943[49] |  |  |
Johannes Steinhoff | 31 August 1942[50] | 2 February 1943[51] |  |  |
Joachim Müncheberg | 5 September 1942[52] |  |  |  |
Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke | 6 September 1942[53] | 17 December 1942[54] |  |  |
Heinz Schmidt | 15 September 1942[50] | 12 August 1943[55] |  |  |
Friedrich-Karl "Tutti" Müller | 19 September 1942[56] |  |  |  |
Wilhelm Crinius | 22 September 1942[57] |  |  |  |
Wolfgang Tonne | 22 September 1942[57] |  |  |  |
Hans Beißwenger | 30 September 1942[58] | 5 March 1943[59] |  |  |
Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert | 3 October 1942[60] | 25 April 1943[61] |  |  |
Günther Rall | 22 October 1942[62] | 7 August 1943[63] | 29 August 1943[64] | 28 November 1943[65] |
Josef Zwernemann | 25 October 1942[62] |  |  |  |
Max Stotz | 29 October 1942[66] | 26 January 1943[67] |  |  |
Friedrich Geißhardt | 10 November 1942[68] |  |  |  |
Gerhard Barkhorn | 19 December 1942[69] | 8 August 1943[55] | 30 November 1943[70] | 12 February 1944[71] | 5 January 1945[72]
Hartmann Grasser | 2 January 1943[73] |  |  |  |
Kurt Ubben | 14 January 1943[74] |  |  |  |
Hans "Assi" Hahn | 26 January 1943[67] |  |  |  |
Wilhelm Lemke | 16 March 1943[75] |  |  |  |
Alfred Grislawski | 27 April 1943[76] |  |  |  |
Joachim Kirschner | 27 April 1943[77] | 5 July 1943[49] |  |  |
Hans Dammers | 5 May 1943[78] |  |  |  |
Wolf-Udo Ettel | 6 May 1943[77] |  |  |  |
Heinrich Ehrler | 8 June 1943[79] | 25 May 1944[80] | 20 November 1944[81] |  |
Rudolf Miethig | 8 June 1943[82] |  |  |  |
Walter Nowotny | 15 June 1943[83] | 18 August 1943[84] | 8 September 1943[85] | 14 October 1943![86] |
Theodor Weissenberger | 4 July 1943[87] | 25 March 1944[88] | 25 July 1944[89] |  |
Reinhard Seiler | 6 July 1943[90] |  |  |  |
Johannes Wiese | 17 July 1943[91] |  |  |  |
Emil Bitsch | 21 July 1943[92] |  |  |  |
Werner Lucas | 21 July 1943[93] |  |  |  |
Dietrich Hrabak | 2 August 1943[94] |  |  |  |
Karl-Heinz Weber | 12 August 1943[95] |  |  |  |
Berthold Korts | 17 August 1943[96] |  |  |  |
Walter Krupinski | 18 August 1943[96] | 12 October 1943[97] |  |  |
Günther Schack | 3 September 1943[98] | 13 August 1944[99] |  |  |
Otto Kittel | 14 September 1943[100] | 4 April 1944[101] | 26 August 1944[102] | 27 October 1944[103] |
Erich Hartmann | 20 September 1943[104] | 13 December 1943[65] | 26 March 1944[105] | 4 June 1944[106] | 24 August 1944![107]
Erich Rudorffer | 11 October 1943[108] | 26 July 1944[109] | 28 October 1944[110] |  |
Anton Hafner | 15 October 1943[111] | 16 July 1944[112] | 16 October 1944[113] |  |
Albin Wolf | 25 October 1943[114] |  |  |  |
Emil Lang | 2 November 1943[115] | 14 June 1944[116] |  |  |
Erich Leie | 6 November 1943[117] |  |  |  |
Joachim Brendel | 22 November 1943[117] | 22 October 1944[118] |  |  |
Otto Fönnekold | 12 January 1944[119] |  |  |  |
Horst Ademeit | 15 January 1944[120] | 28 May 1944[121] |  |  |
Egon Mayer | 5 February 1944[122] |  |  |  |
Wilhelm Batz | 22 March 1944[123] | 31 May 1944[124] | 17 August 1944[125] |  |
Heinrich Sturm | 23 March 1944[126] | December 1944 |  |  |
Heinrich Sterr | 31 March 1944[127] |  |  |  |
Helmut Lipfert | 11 April 1944[128] | 24 October 1944[128] | 8 April 1945[128] |  |
Hans Waldmann | 11 April 1944[129] |  |  |  |
Gerhard Hoffmann | 22 April 1944[130]?[Note 1] |  |  |  |
Fritz Tegtmeier | 3 May 1944[132] |  |  |  |
Karl Gratz | 6 May 1944[133] |  |  |  |
Robert Weiß | 19 May 1944[134] |  |  |  |
Werner Schröer | 24 May 1944[135] |  |  |  |
Walter Wolfrum | 1 June 1944[136] |  |  |  |
Kurt Bühligen | 7 June 1944[137] |  |  |  |
Heinz Sachsenberg | 8 June 1944[138] |  |  |  |
Josef Wurmheller | 8 June 1944[139]?[Note 2] |  |  |  |
Siegfried Freytag | 13 June 1944[141]?[Note 3] |  |  |  |
Josef Priller | 15 June 1944[142] |  |  |  |
Walter Schuck | 15 June 1944[143] | 23 August 1944[144] | 24 March 1945[145] |  |
Helmut Lent | 16 June 1944[146] |  |  |  |
Kurt Tanzer | June 1944[140] |  |  |  |
Rudolf Trenkel | 14 July 1944[147] |  |  |  |
Jakob Norz | 17 July 1944[148] |  |  |  |
Franz Woidich | July 1944[140] |  |  |  |
Günther Josten | 20 July 1944[149] | 17 February 1945[150] |  |  |
Friedrich Obleser | 21 July 1944[151]?[Note 4] |  |  |  |
Adolf Borchers | 24 July 1944[152] |  |  |  |
Franz Dörr | 23 August 1944[153] |  |  |  |
Franz Schall | 31 August 1944[154] |  |  |  |
Franz Eisenach | 14 September 1944[155] |  |  |  |
Heinz Wernicke | 14 September 1944[156] |  |  |  |
Peter Düttmann | 24 September 1944[157] | 15 April 1945[158] |  |  |
Gerhard Thyben | 30 September 1944[159] | 23 February 1945[160] |  |  |
Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer | 9 October 1944[131] |  |  |  |
Hans-Joachim Birkner | 16 October 1944[161] |  |  |  |
Eberhard von Boremski | January 1945[131] |  |  |  |
Walther Dahl | 28 February 1945[131] |  |  |  |
Bernhard Vechtel | 25 March 1945[162] |  |  |  |
Ulrich Wernitz | 26 March 1945[163] |  |  |  |
August Lambert | April 1945[131] |  |  |  |
Heinz Marquardt | 14 April 1945[164] |  |  |  |
Adolf Galland | 21 April 1945[131] |  |  |  |

## Heavy bomber aces

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The Luftwaffe fighter force defended the airspace of German-occupied territory against attack, first by RAF Bomber Command and then against the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the Combined Bomber Offensive. In particular, combating the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers, flying in a combat box, posed a challenge to the Luftwaffe daytime fighter force. In consequence, the destruction of a heavy bomber, or the Herausschuss (separation shot)—a severely damaged heavy bomber forced to separate from its combat box which was counted as an aerial victory—was considered an exceptional achievement.[165] In consequence, the Luftwaffe introduced a point system in 1943 which accounted for the difficulties in shooting down a heavy bomber. Although a single heavy bomber shot down or damaged still counted as one aerial victory, the accumulated points earned a fighter pilot awards, medals and promotions. The point system worked as follows:[166]

* Three points were granted for the destruction of heavy bomber.
* Two points were earned for the Herausschuss of a heavy bomber.
* One point was awarded for the endgültige Vernichtung (final destruction), a coup de grâce inflicted on an already damaged heavy bomber.

This along with the * (asterisk), indicates that the pilot was either killed in action (KIA), missing in action (MIA), died of wounds (DOW) or killed in a flying accident (KIFA).

This and the / (slash) indicates information discrepancies listed by Aders, Caldwell, Forsyth, Girbig, Held, Obermaier, Spick, Ring, Mathews, Foreman and Zabecki.

Name  | Heavy bomber claims  | Total wartime claims  | Unit  | Notes

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Herbert Rollwage | 44[167]/14[168]/10[169] | 102[167] | JG 53, JG 106  | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
Georg-Peter Eder | 36[8]/23+[170] | 78[171]/50+[172] | JG 51, JG 2, JG 1, JG 26, Kdo Nowotny, EJG 2, JG 7  | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
Anton Hackl | 34[8]/16+[173] | 192[174]/180+[175] | JG 77, JG 11, JG 26, JG 300 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
Konrad Bauer | 32[8]/13[170] | 68[176]/38+[177] | JG 51, JG 3, JG 300 | Knight's Cross
Walther Dahl | 30[8]/22+[170] | 129[178]/128[179]/90+[180] | JG 3, JG z.b.v., JG 300, EJG 2  | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
Werner Schroer | 26[8]/23[181] | 114[182]/106[183] | JG 3, JG 27, JG 54 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
Egon Mayer*  | 26[8]/27[122] | 102[167][184] | JG 2 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
KIA 2 March 1944
Rolf Hermichen | 26[8] | 64[185] | ZG 1, ZG 76, SKG 210, JG 26, JG 11, JG 104  | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
Hermann Staiger | 26[8] | 63[186] | JG 51, JG 26, JG 1, JG 7 | Knight's Cross
Anton-Rudolf Piffer*  | 26[8] | 26[187] | JG 1 | Knight's Cross
KIA 17 June 1944
Hugo Frey*  | 25[8] | 32[188] | JG 1, JG 11 | Knight's Cross
KIA 6 March 1944
Alwin Doppler*  | 25[8]/17[189] | 21[190] | JG 1, JG 11 | German Cross
KIA 1 January 1945
Kurt Bühligen | 24[8] | 112[182]/99+[191] | JG 2 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
Hans Ehlers*  | 24[8] | 55[192] | JG 3, JG 1 | Knight's Cross
KIA 27 December 1944
Friedrich-Karl "Tutti" Müller*  | 23[8] | 140[193]/139[194] | JG 53, JG 3 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
KIA 29 May 1944
Heinrich Wurzel | 23[8]/11[165] | 26/12[195] | JG 302, JG 301  |
Walter Loos | 22[8] | 38[196] | JG 3, JG 301 | Knight's Cross
Hans Weik | 22[8] | 36[197] | JG 3, EJGr Ost, EJG 2 | Knight's Cross
Werner Gerth*  | 22[8] | 38[198] | JG 3, JG 300, JG 400 | Knight's Cross
Heinrich Bär | 21[8] | 222[199]/220[200]/208[177] | JG 51, JG 77, JG 1, JG 3, EJG 2, JV 44 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
Fritz Karch | 21[8] | 47[201] | JG 2 | Knight's Cross
Willy Unger | 21[8] | 22[147]/21[202] | JG 3, JG 7 | Knight's Cross
Josef Wurmheller*  | 20+[8] | 102[167]/103[195] | JG 53, JG 2 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
Willy Kientsch*  | 20[8] | 53[203] | JG 27 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
KIA 29 January 1944
Hans-Heinrich Koenig | 20[8] | 28[204] | ZG 76, NJG 3, JG 11 | Knight's Cross
Willi Reschke | 20[8] | 28[205] | JG 302, JG 301 | Knight's Cross
Adolf Glunz | 20[206]/17[207] | 71[208][209]/69[210] | JG 52, JG 26, JG 7 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
Klaus Neumann | 19[211]/17+[165] | 37[211] | JG 51, JG 3, JG 7, JV 44  | Knight's Cross
Heinz Knoke | 19[212]/13[165] | 33[212]/15[213] | JG 1, JG 11 | Knight's Cross
Alfred Grislawski | 18[214]/14[113] | 133[179]/127[215] | JG 52, JG 1 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
Anton Benning | 18[216] | 28[217]/13+[218] | JG 106, JG 301 | Knight's Cross
Herbert Huppertz*  | 17[219] | 68[176] | JG 51, JG 5, JG 2 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
KIA 8 June 1944
Eduard Isken | 17[220] | 56[220] | JG 77, JGr 200,
I(F)/123, JG 53 | Knight's Cross
Waldemar Radener | 17[221]/12[222] | 37[221]/23[223] | JG 26, JG 300 | Knight's Cross
Klaus Bretschneider*  | 17[224]/15[165] | 34[224]/22[225] | JG 300 | Knight's Cross
KIA 24 December 1944
Rudolf Rademacher | 16[221] | 126[179]/93[223] | JG 54, JG 7 | Knight's Cross
Johann Pichler | 16[187] | 75[208] | JG 77 | Knight's Cross
Ernst Börngen | 16[226] | 45[227]/41[226] | JG 27 | Knight's Cross
Friedrich "Fritz" Stehle | 16[228] | 21[228] | ZG 2, ZG 26, JG 6, JG 7  | German Cross
Leopold Münster*  | 15[229] | 95[230] | JG 3 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
KIA 8 May 1944
Otto Wessling | 15[231] | 83[232] | JG 3 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
KIA 19 April 1944
Günther Specht*  | 15[233] | 34[186] | ZG 26, JG 1, JG 11  | Knight's Cross
KIA 1 January 1945
Gerhard Sommer*  | 15[234]/14[165] | 20[234] | JG 11, JG 1 | Knight's Cross
KIA 12 May 1944
Rudi Zwesken | 14+[165] | 23+[195] | JG 52, JG 300 | Knight's Cross
Erwin Clausen*  | 14[179] | 132[179]/100[191] | JG 77, JG 11 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
KIA 4 October 1943
Walter Oesau*  | 14[235] | 125 (incl. 8 in Spain)[236]/127[237] | JG 1, JG 2, JG 51, J/88 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
KIA 11 May 1944
Erwin Laskowski | 14[238] | 46[238] | JG 51, JG 11  | Knight's Cross
Walter Matoni | 14[239] | 34[239] | JG 27, JG 26, JG 2, JG 11 | Knight's Cross
Peter Werfft | 14[240] | 26[241] | JG 27  | Knight's Cross
Gustav Rödel | 13[242] | 98[167] | JG 27 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
Gerhard Michalski | 13[243] | 73[208] | JG 53, JG 4 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
Klaus Mietusch*  | 13[244] | 72[208] | JG 26 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
KIA 17 September 1944
Armin Köhler | 13[245] | 69[176] | JG 27, JG 77 | Knight's Cross
Erich Hohagen | 13[246] | 56[246] | JG 51, JG 2, JG 27, JG 7, JV 44 | Knight's Cross
Gustav Sturm | 13[165] | 21[247] | JG 27, JG 3, JG 51, EJG 2, JG 7  |
Siegfried Schnell*  | 12+[248] | 93[230] | JG 54, JG 2 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
KIA 25 February 1944
Wilhelm Moritz | 12[249] | 44[249]/41[194] | JG 51, JG 3 | Knight's Cross
Franz Ruhl*  | 12[250] | 36[250] | JG 3  | Knight's Cross
KIA 24 December 1944
Rudi Dassow | 12[165] | 22[251] | ZG 1, ZG 76, JG 6  | Knight's Cross
Peter Jenne | 12[252] | 17[252]/12+[253] | ZG 1, ZG 26, JG 300  | Knight's Cross
KIA 2 March 1945
Erich Rudorffer | 11[110] | 222[200]/219[169] | JG 2, JG 54, JG 7  | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
Karl Willius*  | 11[254] | 50[255] | JG 26 | Knight's Cross
KIA 8 April 1944
Karl Rammelt | 11[221] | 41[223] | JG 51  | Knight's Cross
Oskar Zimmermann | 11[195] | 34[256]/28+[195] | JG 51, JG 3  |
Friedrich May*  | 11[165] | 27[184] | JG 2  | German Cross
KIA 20 October 1943
Ekkehard Tichy*  | 11[257]/5[258] | 25[257] | JG 53, JG 3 | Knight's Cross
KIA 16 August 1944
Siegfried Zick | 11[165] | 20[195] | JG 1, JG 11  |
Hans Iffland | 11[165] | 11[253] | JG 3 |
Jürgen Hoerschelmann*  | 11[165] | 16[259] | JG 3  | KIA 12 May 1944
Hans Schrangl | 11[165] | 12[183] | JG 11, JG 7  |
Josef Priller | 10[260] | 101[167] | JG 51, JG 26 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
Hans Grünberg | 10[165] | 82[232]/78[175] | JG 3, JG 52, JG 7 JV 44 | Knight's Cross
Eugen-Ludwig Zweigart*  | 10[261] | 69[176]/66[195] | JG 54 | Knight's Cross
KIA 12 January 1943
Jürgen Harder*  | 10[165] | 64[185] | JG 53, JG 11 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
KIFA 17 February 1945
Hermann Buchner | 10[165] | 58[262] | SG 2, JG 7 | Knight's Cross
Horst Haase*  | 10[165] | 62[263]/54[175] | JG 51, JG 3 | Knight's Cross
KIA 26 November 1944
Karl-Heinz Bendert | 10[264] | 55[264] | JG 27, JG 104 | Knight's Cross
Rudolf Klemm | 10[165] | 42[265]/43[213] | JG 54, JG 26 | Knight's Cross
Fritz Gromotka | 10[266] | 29[266] | JG 27 | Knight's Cross
Herbert Schob | 10[267] | 28 (incl. 6 in Spain)[267] | LG 1, ZG 76, ZG 26 | Knight's Cross
Leo Schuhmacher | 10[268] | 23[268] | ZG 76, JG 1, JV 44 | Knight's Cross
Karl-Heinz Munsche*  | 10[165] | 22[269] | JG 2 | KIA 25 July 1944
Günther Wegmann | 10[270] | 14[270] | ZG 26, Kdo Nowotny, JG 7 | German Cross
Otto Pritzl | 10[165] | 11[223] | JG 51, JG 302, JG 3, JG 7  |
Dieter Zink | 10[165] | 11[195] | JG 3 |
Emil-Rudolf Schnoor | 9+[165] | 12[183] | LG 1, JG 1, JG 11  |
Karl "Quax" Schnörrer | 9[271] | 46[272] | JG 54, JG 7, Kdo Nowotny | Knight's Cross
Ernst Düllberg | 9[165] | 45[273]/43[190] | JG 3, JG 27, JG 76, EJG 2, JG 7  | Knight's Cross
Otto Russ*  | 9[271] | 27[274] | JG 53  | German Cross
KIA 2 July 1944
Ernst-Erich Hirschfeld*  | 9[165] | 24[275] | JG 300, JG 54 | Knight's Cross
KIA 28 July 1944
Walter Köhne | 9[165] | 20+[213] | JG 52, JG 1, JG 11, EJG 2  |
Gerhard Vivroux | 9[271] | 10[270] | Sturmstaffel 1, JG 3  |
Rudolf Metz*  | 9[165] | 10[276] | JG 5, JG 3, JG 4 | KIA 6 October 1944
Hubert Engst | 8+[172] | 10+[172] | JG 300 |
Erich Hondt | 8+[259] | 10+[259] | JG 11, JV 44  |
Heinrich Klöpper*  | 8[212] | 94[230] | JG 51, JG 1 | Knight's Cross
KIA 29 November 1943
Oskar Romm | 8[277] | 92[230] | JG 51, JG 3 | Knight's Cross
Helmut Rüffler | 8[167] | 98[167]/88[250] | JG 3 | Knight's Cross
Günther Seeger | 8[271] | 56[278] | JG 53, JG 2 | Knight's Cross
Wilhelm-Ferdinand (Wutz) Galland*  | 8[279] | 54[280]/56[281] | JG 26 | Knight's Cross
Heinz-Gerhard Vogt*  | 8[271] | 48[282] | JG 26 | Knight's Cross
KIA 14 January 1945
Hans Remmer*  | 8[271] | 27[283]/21[284] | JG 27  | Knight's Cross
KIA 2 April 1944
Karl Wünsch*  | 8[271] | 20[195] | JG 27 | German Cross
21 November 1944
Willi Maximowitz*  | 8[184] | 15+[184] | JG 1, JG 3 | MIA 20 April 1945
Siegfried Müller | 8[194] | 15[194] | JG 51, JG 3, JG 7  | German Cross
Kurt Gabler | 8[271] | 14[281] | JG 300  |
Eberhard Schade | 8[271] | 10[274] | JG 27  |
Hans-Ulrich Jung*  | 8[271] | 10[285] | JG 3  | KIA 1 January 1945
Heinz Angres*  | 8[271] | 8[286] | JG 3 | KIA 16 October 1944
Bernhard Kunze*  | 8[271] | 8[287] | JG 1  | KIA 5 January 1944
Rüdiger von Kirchmayr | 7+[288] | 20±[288] | JG 1, JG 11  |
Ernst Haase*  | 7+[175] | 8+[175] | JG 302  | German Cross
KIA 25 February 1945
Heinrich Ehrler*  | 7[271] | 209[200]/182+[172] | JG 5, JG 7 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
KIA 4 April 1945
Theodor Weissenberger | 7[289] | 208[200][290] | JG 5, JG 7 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
Otto Schultz | 7[271] | 73[208] | JG 51 | Knight's Cross
Johannes Naumann | 7[271] | 34[291] | JG 26, JG 6, JG 7 | Knight's Cross
Harry Koch*  | 7[271] | 21+[213] | JG 26, JG 1 | German Cross
KIA 22 December 1943
Kurt Gren*  | 7[271] | 19[215] | JG 51, JG 3  | German Cross
KIA 23 August 1944
Oskar Bösch | 7[271] | 18[292] | JG 3, JG 301, JG 7 |
Karl Paashaus*  | 7[271] | 15[237] | JG 53 | KIA 22 August 1944
Walter Hagenah | 7[271] | 15[175] | JG 3, JG 7  | German Cross
Helmut Beckmann | 7[271] | 13[218] | JG 27  |
Alexander Ottnad | 7[271] | 12[237] | JG 27  | German Cross
Georg Schanz | 7[271] | 9[293] | JG 27  |
Hans Pancritius*  | 7[237] | 7[271] | JG 1, JG 11  |
Emil-Karl Demuth | 6+[180] | 10+[180] | JG 1  | German Cross
Rudolf Engleder | 6+[271] | 8+[172] | JG 1, EJG 2  |
Hermann Graf | 6[294] | 212[200]/206[215] | JG 52, JG 11 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds
Walter Höckner*  | 6[295] | 68[176] | JG 52, JG 77, JG 26, JG 1, JG 4  | Knight's Cross
KIA 25 August 1944
Reinhold Hoffmann*  | 6[296]/5[258] | 66[297] | JG 54 | Knight's Cross
KIA 24 May 1944
Herbert Kutscha | 6[271] | 47[298] | SKG 210, ZG 1, ZG 76, JG 3, JG 11, JG 27  | Knight's Cross
Karl-Wilhelm Hofmann*  | 6[271] | 44[299] | JG 26 | Knight's Cross
KIA 26 March 1945
Artur Beese | 6[271] | 22[300][218] | JG 26 | German Cross
Horst Rippert | 6[271] | 18[284] | JGr. 200, JG 27  | German Cross
Hannes Löffler*  | 6[301] | 10[301] | JG 27  | KIA 29 June 1944
Rudolf Hübl | 6[259] | 9[259] | JG 1 |
Karl-Heinz Kapp*  | 6[271] | 9[285] | JG 27  | KIA 6 August 1944
Franz Steiner | 6[271] | 8[228] | JG 27, JG 1, JG 11, JV 44 |
Willi Hallenberger | 6[302] | 6[302] | JG 51,JG 302  |
Hans Schäfer | 6[274] | 6[274] | JG 3 |
Herbert Stephan | 6[271] | 6[228] | JG 302  |
Helmut Lennartz | 5+[258] | 8+[303] | JG 1, JG 11, JG 6, JG 7  |
Franz Schall*  | 5[154] | 137[193]/133[274] | JG 52, Kdo Nowotny, JG 7 | Knight's Cross
KIFA 10 April 1945
Josef Zwernemann*  | 5[258] | 126[236]/123[195] | JG 52, JG 11 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
KIA 8 April 1944
Franz Götz | 5[304] | 63[297] | JG 53, JG 26 | Knight's Cross
Heinz Arnold*  | 5[258] | 49/48[286] | JG 5, JG 7 | KIA 17 April 1945
Albert Böckl | 5[258] | 10[292] | JG 26, Kdo Nowotny, JG 7  |
Artur Groß | 5[258] | 10[215] | JG 300, JG 302, JG 106  |
Erich Schwarz | 5[305] | 10[305] | JG 26 |
Gerhard Bärsdorf | 5[258] | 7[177] | JG Hermann, JG 300  |
Karl-Heinz Böttner | 5[258] | 6[292] | JG 77  |

## Notes

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1. ^ According to Obermaier on 16 March 1944, making him the 65th Luftwaffe pilot to achieve the century mark.[131]
2. ^ According to Obermaier on 16 June 1944, making him the 80th Luftwaffe pilot to achieve the century mark.[140]
3. ^ According to Obermaier in December 1944, making him the 96th Luftwaffe pilot to achieve the century mark.[131]
4. ^ According to Obermaier in August 1944, making him the 87th Luftwaffe pilot to achieve the century mark.[131]

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* Prien, Jochen; Stemmer, Gerhard; Rodeike, Peter; Bock, Winfried (2003a). Die Jagdfliegerverbände der Deutschen Luftwaffe 1934 bis 1945—Teil 6/I—Unternehmen "BARBAROSSA"—Einsatz im Osten—22.6. bis 5.12.1941 [The Fighter Units of the German Air Force 1934 to 1945—Part 6/I—Operation "BARBAROSSA"—Action in the East—22 June to 5 December 1941] (in German). Eutin, Germany: Struve-Druck. ISBN 978-3-923457-69-4.
* Prien, Jochen; Stemmer, Gerhard; Rodeike, Peter; Bock, Winfried (2003b). Die Jagdfliegerverbände der Deutschen Luftwaffe 1934 bis 1945—Teil 5—Heimatverteidigung—10. Mai 1940 bis 31 Dezember 1941—Einsatz im Mittelmeerraum—Oktober 1940 bis November 1941—Einsatz im Westen—22. Juni bis 31. Dezember 1941—Die Ergänzungsjagdgruppen—Einsatz 1941 bis zur Auflösung Anfang 1942 [The Fighter Units of the German Air Force 1934 to 1945—Part 5—Defense of the Reich—10 May 1940 to 31 December 1941—Action in the Mediterranean Theater—October 1940 to November 1941—Action in the West—22 June to 31 December 1941—The Supplementary Fighter Groups—Action from 1941 until their Breakup in Early 1942] (in German). Eutin, Germany: Struve-Druck. ISBN 978-3-923457-68-7.
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* Prien, Jochen; Stemmer, Gerhard; Rodeike, Peter; Bock, Winfried (2005). Die Jagdfliegerverbände der Deutschen Luftwaffe 1934 bis 1945—Teil 9/I—Winterkampf im Osten—6.12.1941 bis 30.4.1942 [The Fighter Units of the German Air Force 1934 to 1945—Part 9/I—Winter War in the East—6 December 1941 to 30 April 1942] (in German). Eutin, Germany: Struve-Druck. ISBN 978-3-923457-76-2.
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