# List of World War II aces from Germany: Q–S

This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from Germany with their surname starting from Q to S. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. Aces are listed alphabetically by last name.

## Aces

* Günther Rall, third most successful fighter pilot in aviation history.
* Erich Rudorffer, claimed thirteen aerial victories on a single mission
* Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, most successful night fighter pilot in aviation history
* Paul Semrau, night fighter pilot
By surname: A–F • G–L • M–P • T–Z
This along with the * (asterisk), indicates that the pilot was either killed in action (KIA), missing in action (MIA), died of wounds (DOW), killed in a flying accident (KIFA), or killed in a car accident (KICA).  This and the / (slash) indicates information discrepancies listed by Aders, Boiten, Caldwell, Girbig, Held, Obermaier, Spick, Ring, Mathews, Foreman and Zabecki.

### Q

| Name | Rank | Claims | Unit | Notes |
| Wilhelm Quack* | Feldwebel | 17 | JG 54 | KIA 8 January 1942 |
| Klaus Quaet-Faslem* | Major | 49 | JG 53, JG 3 | Knight's Cross KIFA 30 January 1944 |
| Richard Quante* | Oberfeldwebel | 49/41 | JG 51 | KIA 14 August 1942 |
| Josef Quarde* | Fähnrich | 52 | JG 54 | KIA 5 March 1945 |
| Karl-Heinz Quaritsch* | Leutnant | 9 | JG 53 | KIA 14 June 1942 |
| Ernst Quasinowski | Oberleutnant | 19 | J/88, JG 52 | |
| Werner Quast | Fahnenjunker-Oberfeldwebel | 84 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross |
| Gerhard Querengasser | Feldwebel | 5+ | JG 2 | |

### R

| Name | Rank | Claims | Unit | Notes |
| Walter Rabenstein* | Leutnant | 5 | JG 27 | KIA 2 July 1944 |
| Josef Rabieger | Oberfeldwebel | 20+ | JG 52 | |
| Rudolf Rademacher | Oberleutnant | 126/93 | JG 54, JG 7 | Knight's Cross |
| Waldemar Radener | Oberleutnant | 37/23 | JG 26, JG 300 | Knight's Cross |
| Günther Radusch | Oberst | 64 (+1 in Spain) | NJG 1, NJG 2, NJG 3 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Gerhard Raht | Hauptmann | 58/59 | NJG 2 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Alfons Raich | Oberleutnant | 10 | JG 3 | |
| Günther Rall | Major | 275/274 | JG 52, JG 11 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords mission-to-claim ratio of 2.26. |
| Karl Rammelt | Major | 41 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross |
| Alfred Rauch | Leutnant | 60 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross |
| Paul-Hubert Rauh | Hauptmann | 31 | NJG 4 | Knight's Cross |
| Karl-Wolfgang Redlich* | Major | 43/41 (incl. 2 in Spain) | JG 27 | Knight's Cross KIA 29 May 1944 |
| Hans Reiff | Oberfeldwebel | 54 | JG 3 | |
| Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert | Oberleutnant | 174/168 | JG 77, JG 27 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords |
| Hans-Günther Reinhard | Oberfeldwebel | 42 | JG 54 | |
| Peter Reischer | Oberleutnant | 20 | JG 26 | |
| Hans Remmer* | Hauptmann | 27/21 | JG 27 | Knight's Cross KIA 2 April 1944 |
| Anton Resch | Oberleutnant | 91 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross |
| Rudolf Resch* | Major | 94 (incl. 1 in Spain) | JG 52, JG 51 | Knight's Cross KIA 11 July 1943 |
| Willi Reschke | Oberfeldwebel | 28 | JG 302, JG 301 | Knight's Cross incl. 20 heavy bombers |
| Ralph von Rettberg | Oberst | 8 | ZG 26, ZG 1 | Knight's Cross |
| Horst Reuter | Leutnant | 21 | JG 27 | |
| Ernst Richter | Oberfeldwebel | 8 | JG 54 | |
| Hans Richter | Leutnant | 22 | JG 27 | |
| Horst Reuter | Unteroffizier | 26 | JG 27 | |
| Eckhard Roch | Oberleutnant | 5 | JG 26 | |
| Gustav Rödel | Oberst | 98 | JG 27 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Hans Röhrig* | Hauptmann | 75 | JG 53 | Knight's Cross KIA 13 July 1943 |
| Detlev Rohwer | Hauptmann | 38 | JG 3, JG 1 | Knight's Cross |
| Heinz Rökker | Hauptmann | 64 | NJG 2 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Herbert Rollwage | Oberleutnant | 102 | JG 53 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Oskar Romm | Oberleutnant | 92 | JG 51, JG 3 | Knight's Cross |
| Heinrich Rosenberg | Oberleutnant | 12 | JG 27 | |
| Theodor Rossiwall | Oberstleutnant | 19 (incl. 2 in Spain) | ZG 76, NJG 4 | Knight's Cross |
| Edmund Roßmann | Leutnant | 93 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross |
| Willi Roth | Leutnant | 20 | JG 26, JG 103, JG 102, JV 44 | |
| Günther Rübell | Hauptmann | 50 | JG 51, JG 104 | Knight's Cross |
| Hans-Ulrich Rudel | Oberst | 9+ | SG 2 | Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds (sole recipient in the entire Wehrmacht) |
| Erich Rudorffer | Major | 222/219 | JG 2, JG 54, JG 7 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords 13 in one mission |
| Helmut Rüffler | Oberfeldwebel | 98/88 | JG 3 | Knight's Cross |
| Franz Ruhl* | Oberleutnant | 36 | JG 3 | Knight's Cross KIA 24 December 1944 |
| Friedrich Rupp* | Leutnant | 52 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross KIA 15 May 1943 |
| Martin Rysavy | Oberleutnant | 8 | JG 26 | |

### S

| Name | Rank | Claims | Unit | Notes |
| Heinz Sachsenberg | Leutnant | 104 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross |
| Florian Salwender | Feldwebel | 25 | JG 77, JG 5 | POW Died in Soviet Prison |
| Carl Sattig* | Hauptmann | 53 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross KIA 10 August 1942 |
| Erwin Sawallisch* | Oberfeldwebel | 35 | JG 27 | Suicide |
| Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein* | Major | 83/79 | NJG 2, NJG 3 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords KIA 21/22 January 1944 |
| Günther Schack | Hauptmann | 174 | JG 51, JG 3 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Hans Schäfer | Feldwebel | 6 | JG 3 | |
| Hans Schäfer | Oberleutnant | 12 | NJG 2, NJG 3 | |
| Johann Schalk | Oberst | 15 | ZG 26, NJG 3, NJG 4 | Knight's Cross |
| Franz Schall* | Hauptmann | 137/133 | JG 52, Kdo Nowotny, JG 7 | Knight's Cross KIFA 10 April 1945 mission-to-claim ratio of 4.01. |
| Ludwig Scharf | Unteroffizier | 7+ | JG 5 | |
| Gerhard Schaschke | Hauptmann | 19+ | ZG 76 | |
| Paul Schauder | Hauptmann | 21 | JG 26 | |
| Jakob Schaus | Leutnant | 23 | NJG 4 | |
| Günther Scheel* | Leutnant | 71 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross MIA 16 July 1943 only 70 combat missions, with a mission-to-claim ratio of 0.99. |
| Klaus Scheer | Leutnant | 24/23 | NJG 100 | |
| Rudolf Scheffel | Hauptmann | 7 | ZG 1, ZG 26 | Knight's Cross |
| Wolfgang Schellmann* | Oberstleutnant | 26 (incl. 12 in Spain) | JG 2, JG 27 | Knight's Cross KIA 22 June 1941 |
| Fritz Schellwat | Oberfeldwebel | 19 | NJG 1 | |
| Wolfgang Schenck | Oberstleutnant | 18 | SG 2, ZG 1, SKG 210, KG 51 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Georg Schentke* | Oberleutnant | 90/87 | JG 3 | Knight's Cross KIA 25 December 1942 |
| Karl-Heinz Scherfling* | Oberfeldwebel | 33 | NJG 1 | Knight's Cross KIA 21 July 1944 |
| Ernst Scheufele | Oberleutnant | 14 | JG 5, JG 4 | |
| Erich Scheyda | Oberfeldwebel | 20 | JG 26 | |
| Franz Schieß* | Hauptmann | 67 | JG 53 | Knight's Cross KIA 2 September 1943 |
| Wilhelm Schilling | Oberleutnant | 63 | JG 54, EJG 1 | Knight's Cross |
| Hans Schleef* | Oberleutnant | 98 | JG 3, JG 5, JG 4 | Knight's Cross KIA 31 December 1944 |
| Hermann Schleinhege | Leutnant | 97/96 | JG 3, JG 54 | Knight's Cross |
| Joachim Schlichting | Major | 8 (incl. 5 in Spain) | JG 27 | Knight's Cross |
| Karl-Friedrich Schlosstein | Hauptmann | 5+ | JG 77, JG 5 | |
| Johann Schmid* | Major | 45 | JG 2, JG 26 | Knight's Cross KIA 6 November 1941 mission-to-claim ratio of 3.34. |
| Dietrich Schmidt | Hauptmann | 39 | NJG 1 | Knight's Cross |
| Erich Schmidt* | Oberleutnant | 47 | JG 53 | Knight's Cross KIA 31 August 1941 |
| Franz Schmidt* | Unteroffizier | 6 | JG 77 | KIA 4 November 1941 |
| Heinz Schmidt* | Hauptmann | 173 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves MIA 5 September 1943 mission-to-claim ratio of 4.05. |
| Johannes Schmidt | Oberleutnant | 12 | JG 26 | |
| Rudolf Schmidt* | Feldwebel | 42 | JG 77 | Knight's Cross KIA 6 April 1942 |
| Winfried Schmidt | Hauptmann | 19 | JG 3 | |
| Lothar Schmitt | Leutnant | 7 | LG 2, SG 1 | |
| Hans Schmoller-Haldy | Hauptmann | 12 | JG 54 | |
| Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer | Major | 121/119 | NJG 1, NJG 4 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds Top Night Fighter Ace of World War II |
| August Schneider | Leutnant | 9 | JG 5 | |
| Gerhard Schneider | Leutnant | 41 | JG 51, JGr Ost | |
| Hugo Schneider | Oberleutnant | 6 | JG 27 | |
| Walter Schneider | Oberleutnant | 20 | JG 26 | |
| Karl-Heinz Schnell | Major | 72 | JG 51, JG 53, JV 44 | Knight's Cross |
| "Wumm" Siegfried Schnell* | Major | 93 | JG 54, JG 2 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 25 February 1944 |
| Karl "Quax" Schnörrer | Leutnant | 46 | JG 54, JG 7, Kdo Nowotny | Knight's Cross |
| Herbert Schob | Hauptmann | 28 (incl. 6 in Spain) | LG 1, ZG 76, ZG 26 | Knight's Cross |
| Rudolf Schoenert | Major | 64 | NJG 1, NJG 2, NJG 3, NJG 100, NJGr 10, NJG 5 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Erich Schöfbock | Leutnant | 8 | JG 27 | |
| Günther Scholz | Major | 34 (+1 in Spain) | JG 54, JG 5 | |
| Helmut Schönfelder | Oberfeldwebel | 56 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross |
| Gerhard Schöpfel | Major | 45 | JG 26, JG 4, JG 6 | Knight's Cross |
| Georg Schott* | Oberleutnant | 21 | LG 2, JG 1 | KIA 27 September 1943 |
| Herbert Schramm* | Hauptmann | 40 | JG 53, JG 27 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 1 December 1943 |
| Alfred Schreiber* | Leutnant | 5 | ZG 26, EKdo 262, Kdo Nowotny, JG 7 | KIFA 26 November 1944 |
| Georg Schröder | Hauptmann | 12 | JG 2 | |
| Werner Schröer | Major | 114/106 | JG 3, JG 27, JG 54 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords incl. 26 heavy bombers mission-to-claim ratio of 1.73. |
| Fritz Schröter | Major | 11 | JG 2, SKG 10, SG 5, SG 4 | Knight's Cross |
| Walter Schuck | Oberleutnant | 206/181 | JG 5, JG 7 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Leo Schuhmacher | Leutnant | 23 | ZG 76, JG 1, JV 44 | Knight's Cross |
| Franz Schulte* | Feldwebel | 46 | JG 77 | Knight's Cross KIA 12 August 1942 |
| Helmuth Schulte | Hauptmann | 25 | NJG 5 | Knight's Cross |
| Otto Schultz | Hauptmann | 73 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross |
| Gerhard Schulwitz | Leutnant | 9 | JG 26 | |
| Otto Schulz* | Oberleutnant | 51 | JG 27 | Knight's Cross KIA 17 June 1942 |
| Werner Schumacher | Unteroffizier | 30 | JG 5 | |
| Heinz Schumann* | Major | 21 | JG 51, JG 2 SKG 10 | Knight's Cross KIFA 8 November 1943 |
| Franz Schwaiger* | Leutnant | 67 | JG 3 | Knight's Cross KIA 24 April 1944 |
| Günther Schwanecke | Hauptmann | 14 | JG 77, JG 5 | |
| Gerhard Schwartz | Feldwebel | 20 | JG 51 | |
| Günther Schwarz | Oberfeldwebel | 40/38 | JG 51 | |
| Georg Seckel | Hauptmann | 34 | JG 77, JG 200, JG 4 | |
| Günther Seeger | Oberleutnant | 56 | JG 53, JG 2 | Knight's Cross |
| Georg Seelmann | Oberleutnant | 39 | JG 51, JG 103 | Knight's Cross |
| Hermann Segatz | Hauptmann | 40/33 | JG 26, JG 51, JG 5, JG 1 | |
| Georg Seidel | Oberfeldwebel | 47/45 | JG 51 | |
| Alfred Seidl | Oberleutnant | 31 | JG 53, JG 3, JG 7 | |
| Johannes Seifert* | Oberstleutnant | 57 | JG 26 | Knight's Cross KIA 25 November 1943 |
| Reinhard Seiler | Major | 109 (incl. 9 in Spain) | JG 54, JG 104 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Erich von Selle | | 7 | JG 26 | |
| Waldemar Semelka | Leutnant | 65 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross mission-to-claim ratio of 3.69. |
| Paul Semrau* | Major | 46 | NJG 2 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 8 February 1945 |
| Fritz Sengschmitt | | 15 | ZG 76, ZG 26 | |
| Heinrich Setz* | Major | 138 | JG 27, JG 77 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 13 March 1943 mission-to-claim ratio of 1.99. |
| Peter Siegler* | Feldwebel | 48 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross MIA 24 September 1942 |
| Rudolf Sigmund* | Hauptmann | 29 | NJG 1 | Knight's Cross KIA 4 October 1943 |
| Friedrich Simon | Oberfeldwebel | 22+ | JG 51 | |
| Siegfried Simsch | Hauptmann | 54 | JG 52, JG 11 | Knight's Cross KIA 8 June 1944 |
| Rudolf Sinner | Major | 39 | JG 27 | |
| Kurt Sochatzy | Oberleutnant | 38 | JG 3 | Knight's Cross |
| Waldemar Söffing | Leutnant | 35 | JG 26 | |
| Gerhard Sommer* | Hauptmann | 20 | JG 11, JG 1 | Knight's Cross KIA 12 May 1944 |
| Hermann Sommer* | Oberfeldwebel | 19 | NJG 2, NJG 102 | KIA 11 February 1944 |
| Wolfgang Späte | Major | 99 | JG 54, JG 400, JG 7 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Günther Specht* | Oberstleutnant | 34 | ZG 26, JG 11 | Knight's Cross MIA 1 January 1945 |
| Wilhelm Spies* | Major | 20 | ZG 26 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 27 January 1942 |
| Robert Spreckles | Oberfeldwebel | 6+ | JG 11, JG 1 | |
| Peter Spoden | Hauptmann | 24/23 | NJG 5, NJG 6 | |
| Gustav Sprick | Oberleutnant | 31 | JG 26 | Knight's Cross |
| Karl Stadek | Oberfeldwebel | 25+ | JG 51 | |
| Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt* | Oberleutnant | 60 | JG 27 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves MIA 7 September 1942 |
| Hermann Staiger | Major | 63 | JG 51, JG 26, JG 1, JG 7 | Knight's Cross incl. 26 heavy bombers |
| Friedrich-Wilhelm Stakejahn | | 9 | JG 5, SG 4 | |
| Otto Stammberger | Oberleutnant | 7 | JG 26 | |
| Karl Steffen* | Oberfeldwebel | 59 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross MIA 8 August 1943 |
| Hans-Joachim Steffens* | Leutnant | 21 | JG 51 | KIA 30 July 1941 |
| Friedrich "Fritz" Stehle | Oberleutnant | 21 | ZG 2, ZG 26, JG 6, JG 7 | German Cross |
| Leopold "Bazi" Steinbatz* | Leutnant | 99/98 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords KIA 23 June 1942 |
| Franz Steiner | Oberfeldwebel | 8 | JG 27, JG 1, JG 11, JV 44 | |
| Günter Steinhausen* | Leutnant | 40 | JG 27 | Knight's Cross KIA 6 September 1942 |
| Ulrich Steinhilper | Oberleutnant | 5 | JG 52 | |
| "Macky" Johannes Steinhoff | Oberst | 176/168 | JG 26, JG 52, JG 77 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords |
| Wilhelm Steinmann | Major | 44 | JG 27, JG 4, JV 44 | Knight's Cross |
| Heinrich Steis | Leutnant | 20 | JG 27 | German Cross |
| Andreas Sterl | Oberfeldwebel | 54 | JG 52 | German Cross |
| Heinrich Sterr* | Oberleutnant | 130 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross KIA 26 November 1944 |
| Franz Stigler | Oberleutnant | 26 | JG 27, JV 44 | German Cross |
| Bruno Stolle | Hauptmann | 35 | LG 1, JG 2, JG 11 | Knight's Cross |
| "Max" Maximilian Stotz* | Hauptmann | 189/182 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves MIA 19 August 1943 mission-to-claim ratio of 2.65. |
| Friedrich-Wilhelm Strakeljahn* | Hauptmann | 9 | JG 5, SG 4 | Knight's Cross KIA 6 July 1944 |
| Hubert Strassl* | Oberfeldwebel | 67 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross KIA 8 July 1943 mission-to-claim ratio of 3.30. |
| Erwin Straznicky* | Oberleutnant | 30 | LG 2, JG 77, JG 3 | MIA 3 October 1942 |
| Werner Streib | Oberst | 66 | NJG 1 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords |
| Hans Strelow* | Leutnant | 68 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 22 May 1942 mission-to-claim ratio of 2.94. |
| Fritz Stritzel | Stabsfeldwebel | 11 | JG 2 | |
| Karl Strohecker | Oberfeldwebel | 14 | NJG 100 | |
| Heinz Strüning* | Hauptmann | 56 | ZG 26, KG 30, NJG 2, NJG 1 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 25 December 1944 |
| Werner Stumpf* | Oberfeldwebel | 48 | JG 53 | Knight's Cross KIA 13 October 1942 |
| Gustav Sturm | Leutnant | 21 | JG 27, JG 3, JG 51, EJG 2, JG 7 | |
| Heinrich Sturm* | Hauptmann | 158/157 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross KIA 22 December 1944 |
| Alfred Surau | Leutnant | 45 | JG 3 | |
| Ernst Süß* | Oberleutnant | 68 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross KIA 20 December 1943 |
| Paul Szameitat* | Hauptmann | 29 | NJG 3 | Knight's Cross KIA 2 January 1944 |
| Wilhelm Szuggar | Oberfeldwebel | 10 (incl. 5 in Spain) | JG 52, JG 26 | |