(Photo courtesy of Gareth Collins)

Generalmajor Erich Stahl
Born: 29 Mar 1893 in Munich (M�nchen)
Died: 15 Jan 1954 in G�ppingen
Promotions:
Fahnenjunker-Unteroffizier (01 Dec 1914); F�hnrich (15 Feb 1915); Leutnant (09 Apr 1915); Charakter als Oberleutnant (30 Aug 1920); Polizei-Leutnant (01 Dec 1919); Polizei-Oberleutnant (22 Dec 1920); Polizei-Hauptmann (01 Jan 1922); Major (01 Jul 1935); Oberstleutnant (01 Apr 1937); Oberst (01 May 1939); Generalmajor (01 Jan 1943)
Career:
Entered the Army as a Fahnenjunker and Platoon-Leader in the 18th Bavarian Infantry-Regiment (22 Aug 1914-19 Nov 1915)
Observer-Training with the 1st Bavarian Flying-Replacement-Battalion, Schlei�heim (20 Nov 1915-25 Jan 1916)
Observer with Army-Flight-Park 6 (26 Jan 1916-01 May 1916)
Pilot-Training with the 1st Bavarian Flying-Replacement-Battalion, Schlei�heim (02 May 1916-16 Sep 1916)
Pilot with the 4th Field-Flying-Battalion (18 Sep 1916-07 Nov 1916)
Detached to Exercise-Staff East, Warsaw (08 Nov 1916-16 Dec 1916)
Pilot with the 252nd Flying-Battalion (18 Dec 1916-28 Jul 1917)
Flight-Instructor with the 1st Bavarian Flying-Replacement-Battalion, Schlei�heim (29 Jul 1917-29 Jan 1918)
Officer with Special Duties of Fighter-Squadron 79 (30 Jan 1918-26 Aug 1918)
Flight-Instructor with the 1st Bavarian Flying-Replacement-Battalion, Schlei�heim (27 Aug 1918-18 Sep 1918)
Course-Leader with the Technical Instruction Company (19 Sep 1918-02 Nov 1918)
Company-Leader of the Reinforcing-Company Stahl (03 Nov 1918-24 Mar 1919)
Company-Leader of the Security-Company Germersheim (25 Mar 1919-11 May 1919)
Placed to the Disposal of the Defence-Regiment, Munich (12 May 1919-31 Oct 1919)
Adjutant of the V. Battalion of Defence-Regiment Munich (01 Nov 1919-30 Nov 1919)
Retired (30 Aug 1920)
Entered Police Service with the Bavarian State-Police (01 Dec 1919-24 Jun 1934)
With the Air-Surveillance Bavarian, Munich (25 Jun 1934-30 Nov 1934)
Transferred into the Luftwaffe as a Supplemental-Officer (Active-Officer from 01 Mar 1937) and Detached to Air-District-Command V (01 Dec 1934-30 Sep 1935)
Airport-Commandant Munich-Oberwiesenfeld (01 Oct 1935-31 May 1936)
Detached to Flying-Group Neubrandenburg (01 Jun 1936-28 Feb 1937)
Commander of II. Group in Bomber-Wing 355 (01 Mar 1937-30 Jun 1938)
Air-Base-Commandant Schw�bisch-Hall (01 Jul 1938-31 Aug 1939)
Commodore of Bomber-Wing 53 (01 Sep 1939-20 Dec 1940)
Officer with Special Duties of the RLM and C-in-C Luftwaffe (21 Dec 1940-31 Mar 1941)
Commander of the Greater Bomber-Flying-School 3, Warsaw (01 Apr 1941-30 Sep 1942)
With the Staff of the Inspectorate of Personnel of the Luftwaffe, RLM (01 Oct 1942-14 Aug 1944)
With the Staff of the General for the Personnel-Deployment of the Luftwaffe, RLM (15 Aug 1944-01 Sep 1944)
Detached to the Area of Service of Air-Fleet-Command Reich � F�hrer-Reserve (02 Sep 1944-05 Dec 1944)
Placed to the Disposal of the Flying-Replacement-Division (06 Dec 1944-00 May 1945)

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