Hermann Buchner

Hermann Buchner
30 October 1919(1919-10-30) – 1 December 2005 (aged 86)
Place of birth	Salzburg/Austria
Place of death	Lörsching/Linz
Allegiance	First Austrian Republic (to 1938) Nazi Germany (to 1945) Austria
Service/branch	Luftwaffe
Years of service	1937–1945
Rank	Leutnant (Wehrmacht) Oberst (Bundesheer)
Unit	SG 2, JG 7
Battles/wars	World War II Eastern Front Defense of the Reich
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

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. ^[1]

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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.
Morgan, Hugh & Weal, John (1998). German Jet Aces of World War 2. London: Orsprey Publishing Limited. ISBN 1-85532-634-5.

v • d • e German World War II Jet Aces

Kurt Welter (20+) • Heinrich Bär (16) • Franz Schall (14) • Hermann Buchner (12) • Georg-Peter Eder (12) • Erich Rudorffer (12) • Karl Schnörrer (11) • Erich Büttner (8) • Helmut Lennartz (8) • Rudolf Rademacher • Walter Schuck (8) • Günther Wegmann (8) • Hans-Dieter Weihs (8) • Theodor Weissenberger (8) • Alfred Ambs (7) • Heinz Arnold (7) • Karl-Heinz Becker (7) • Adolf Galland (7) • Franz Köster (7) • Fritz Müller (6) • Johannes Steinhoff (6) • Helmut Baudach (5) • Heinrich Ehrler (5) • Hans Grünberg (5) • Joseph Heim (5) • Klaus Neumann (5) • Alfred Schreiber (5) • Wolfgang Späte (5)

See also: List of World War II aces from Germany