Helmut Lipfert

Infobox Military Person
name=Helmut Lipfert
born=birth date|1916|8|6|df=y
died=dda|1990|8|10|1916|8|6|df=y
placeofbirth=Lippelsdorf, Saxe-Meiningen
placeofdeath=Einbeck


caption=Helmut Lipfert
nickname=
allegiance=flagicon|Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
branch=Heer (1937 – 1941)
Luftwaffe (1941 – 1945)
serviceyears=1937-1945
rank=Hauptmann
commands=I./JG 53
unit=JG 52, JG 53
battles=World War II
*Operation Barbarossa
awards=Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
laterwork=school teacher

Helmut Lipfert (6 August 1916 – 10 August 1990) was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves. Lipfert was credited with 203 victories achieved in over 700 combat missions. All his victories were claimed over the Eastern front and included two four-engine bombers and 39 Ilyushin Il-2 ground-attack aircraft. After the war, he beacme a school teacher.

Awards

* Iron Cross 2. and 1. class
* Ehrenpokal der Luftwaffe (14 November 1943)
* German Cross in Gold (28 January 1944)
* Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
** Knight's Cross (5 April 1944)
** 837. Oak Leaves (17 April 1945)

References

* Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer. "Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945". Friedburg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas, 2000. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
* Lipfert, Helmut and Girbig, Werner. "The War Diary of Hauptmann Helmut Lipfert – JG 52 on the Russian Front 1943-1945". Schiffer Military History, 1993. ISBN 0-88740-446-4.
* Patzwall, Klaus D. and Scherzer, Veit. "Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 - 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II". Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X.

External links

* [http://www.luftwaffe.cz/lipfert.html Helmut Lipfert @ Aces of the Luftwaffe]