Hermann Buchner

Infobox Military Person
name=Hermann Buchner
born=birth date|1919|10|30|df=y
died=dda|2005|12|1|1919|10|30|df=y
nickname=
placeofbirth=Salzburg/Austria
placeofdeath=Lörsching/Linz
allegiance=flagicon|Austria First Austrian Republic (to 1938)
flagicon|Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (to 1945)
flagicon|Austria Austria
branch=
serviceyears=1937–1945
rank=Leutnant (Wehrmacht)
Oberst (Bundesheer)
unit=SG 2, JG 7
battles=World War II
*Eastern Front
*Defense of the Reich
awards=Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
laterwork=

Hermann Buchner was a former German Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II. Buchner is credited with 46 tank victories and 58 aerial victories, including 12 while flying the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter, accumulated in 631 combat missions. [For a list of Luftwaffe Jet aces see "List of German World War II jet aces"]

Awards

* Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe in Gold
* Iron Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st Class
* German Cross in Gold
* Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (20 July 1944)

References

* Brütting, Georg (1995). "Das waren die deutschen Stuka-Asse 1939 - 1945". Motorbuch, Stuttgart. ISBN 3-87943-433-6.
* Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000). "Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945". Friedburg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
*. ISBN 1-85532-634-5.