Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik

German General and Knight's Cross recipients

Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1891

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

Date of Death: 17-Jun-1985

Profession: military personnel, aircraft pilot

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik (10 December 1891 – 17 June 1985) was a general in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany during World War II.
He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
Morzik was a winner in the first International Tourist Plane Contest Challenge and the second Challenge in 1930.
In 1935 he started service in the Air Force (Luftwaffe), as a commandant of pilots' school.
In World War II he became a head of Luftwaffe Transport Command, in a rank of Generalmajor. After the war he wrote a detailed story of German transport aviation during the war: Die deutschen Transportflieger im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Frankfurt am Main, 1966) and German Air Force Airlift Operations (New York: Arno Press, 1968).