Helmut Wick

Major Helmut Paul Emil Wick was a German Luftwaffe ace and the fourth recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade, the Oak Leaves, was awarded by the Third Reich to recognise extreme bravery in battle or successful military leadership. It was Germanys highest military decoration at the time of its presentation to Helmut Wick.

Helmut Paul Emil Wick was born onAugust 1915 in Mannheim, Germany, the youngest of three children of a civil engineer, Karl Wick and Berta Wick, ne Schenck. Helmuts eldest brother Walter was born in Swakopmund, at the time in the German protectorate in SouthWest Africa. The outbreak of World War I forced the family to return to Germany and Helmuts sister, Doris, was born in Rohrbach, near Heidelberg. Owing to the demand for his fathers skills and expertise building roads and bridges, Helmut spent most of his childhood traveling throughout the German Reich. The Wick family moved to Hanover in 1919 Helmuts mother died there in February 1922. His father then took the family to Oliva, near Danzig and Knigsberg in East Prussia, finally settling in Berlin in 1935.

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