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Ernst Wilhelm Arnold von Hoeppner (14 January 1860 – 26 September 1922) was a Prussian cavalry officer who served as the Commanding General of the German Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) during World War I.
Lt. Gen. Ernst Wilhelm von Hoeppner took control of the situation. His goals were simple but precise. He aimed for nothing less than the disruption of British industry and communications and disruption of cross-channel supply routes.
General of Cavalry Ernst Wilhelm von Hoeppner (14 January 1860 - 26 September 1922) was a German cavalry officer who served as the Commanding General of the German Air Service (Luftstreitkrx fte) during World War I. Early life and military career.
Brandenburg was personally selected to head Kagohl 3, the elite of the Kaiser’s bombing squadrons for the raids on England, by General Ernst von Hoeppner. Kagohl 3 was attached to the German Fourth Army in Flanders, but operated independently of fighting on that front.
Commanding General of the Imperial German Air Service (Kogen-Luft) during the Great War, Ernst von Hoeppner came up through the ranks as a cavalry officer and served in several Prussian dragoon and hussar regiments.
Feb 3, 2021 · In 1921, he published Deutschlands Krieg in der Luft (“Germany’s War in the Air”), a study of the German Air Service during the Great War. On September 26, 1922, Ernst von Hoeppner died of influenza at the age of sixty-two. He was buried in his birthplace of Tonnin on the island of Wollin.
Ernst Wilhelm von Hoeppner (14 January 1860 – 26 September 1922) was a German cavalry officer who served as the Commanding General of the German Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) during World War I. Ernst von Hoeppner was born in Tonnin on the island of Wollin in Pomerania on 14 January 1860.
