Josef Kammhuber was a career officer who served in the Imperial German Army, the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany and the post-World War II German Air Force. During World War II, he was the first general of night fighters in the Luftwaffe.
Josef Kammhuber as Inspector of the West German Air Force
Slot Zeist, Kammhubers headquarters.
Kammhuber (left) and Helmut Lent in a Nazi propaganda photograph, France, 1942
Meeting between Kammhuber and Air Marshal Sir Thomas Pike in 1956. Pike had previously served as an RAF night fighter pilot.
The German Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Bundeswehr, the armed forces of Germany. The German Air Force was founded in 1956 during the era of the Cold War as the aerial warfare branch of the armed forces of West Germany. After the reunification of West and East Germany in 1990, it integrated parts of the air force of the former German Democratic Republic, which itself had been founded in 1956 as part of the National People's Army. There is no organizational continuity between the current German Air Force and the former Luftwaffe of the Wehrmacht founded in 1935, which was completely disbanded in 1945/46 after World War II. The term Luftwaffe that is used for both the historic and the current German air force is the German-language generic designation of any air force.
This Canadair CL-13 is preserved at the Military History Museum in Berlin.
An Alpha Jet A in 1996
One of 212 Panavia Tornado IDSs delivered to the Luftwaffe
A Luftwaffe MiG-29
