Otto Parschau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Otto Parschau

German flying ace

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1890

Place of Birth: Klucznik, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 21-Jul-1916

Profession: fighter pilot

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Leutnant Otto Parschau (11 November 1890 – 21 July 1916) was a German World War I Flying Ace and recipient of the Pour le Mérite, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, and Iron Cross, First Class.
He was noted as one of the pre-eminent aces on the Fokker Eindecker.
He was one of the world's first flying aces.
Parschau and Leutnant Kurt Wintgens were the pilots chosen to fly the prototype of the revolutionary Fokker Eindecker fighter plane with a machine gun synchronized to fire safely through its propeller arc via use of a gun synchronizer.