# List of World War II aces from Germany: A–F

This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from Germany with their surname starting from A to F. 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

* Egon Albrecht, 25 claims
* Wilhelm Batz, 237 claims
* Gerhard Barkhorn, 301 claims
* Friedrich Beckh
* Heinrich Ehrler, 209 claims
By surname: G–L • M–P • Q–S • 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.

### A

| Name | Rank | Claims | Unit | Notes |
| Hans Adam* | Leutnant | 11 | JG 51 | KIA 12 March 1945 |
| Heinz-Günther Hans Adam* | Leutnant | 5 | JG 26 | KIFA 20 December 1942 |
| Helmut Adam* | Unteroffizier | 12 | EJGr Ost, JG 52 | KIA 1 July 1942 |
| Hans Adelhütte* | Oberleutnant | 15–20 | KG 41, KG 3, NJG 7, NJG 3 | KIA 13 August 1944 |
| Horst Ademeit* | Major | 166/160 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 7 August 1944 mission-to-claim ratio of 3.61. |
| Walter Adolph* | Hauptmann | 28/25/24 (+1 in Spain; +4 unconfirmed)/21 | J/88, JG 27, JG 26 | Knight's Cross KIA 18 September 1941 mission-to-claim ratio of 2.82. |
| Gustav Ahlbrand* | Unteroffizier | 14 | JG 52 | KIA 22 August 1943 |
| Heinrich-Wilhelm Ahnert* | Oberfeldwebel | 57 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross KIA 15 August 1942 |
| Peter Ahrens* | Leutnant | 11 | JG 26 | KIFA 4 March 1945 |
| Johann Aistleitner* | Hauptmann | 13/11/12 | JG 26 | KIA 14 January 1944 |
| Egon Albrecht-Lemke* | Hauptmann | 25/18+ | ZG 76, SKG 210, ZG 1, JG 76 | Knight's Cross KIA 25 August 1944 |
| Heinz Albrecht* | Oberfeldwebel | 6+ | JG 11 | KIA 2 May 1945 |
| Vicente Aldecoa | Leutnant | 8 | JG 51 | |
| Herbert Aloe* | Hauptmann | 35 | JG 54 | German Cross KIA 21 June 1944 |
| Heinz Hans Altendorf | Oberleutnant | 24 | JG 53 | German Cross POW 16 December 1941 |
| Rudolf Altendorf | Hauptmann | 29/25/24 | LG 1, NJG 3, NJG 4, NJG 1, NJG 5 | |
| Herbert Altner | Leutnant | 23/21/18 | ZG 76, NJG 3, NJG 5, NJG 11 | |
| Ernst-Georg Altnorthoff | Oberleutnant | 11 | JG 27 | |
| Alfred Ambs | Leutnant | 8 | JG 7 | |
| Hermann Amend* | Unteroffizier | 10 | JG 5 | KIA 5 August 1944 |
| Georg Amon | Oberfeldwebel | 9 | JG 53 | POW 2 April 1945 |
| Peter "Pit" Andel | Leutnant | 6 | JG 26 | |
| Werner Andres | Oberstleutnant | 5 | JG 3 | |
| Lorenz Andresen* | Oberleutnant | 5+ | JG 5 | KIA 20 July 1944 |
| Heinz Angres* | Fahnenjunker-Feldwebel | 8 | JG 3 | KIA 16 October 1944 |
| Paul Angst | Leutnant | 5 | JG 3, EJG 1 | |
| Robert Anlauf* | Feldwebel | 10 | JG 52 | KIA 28 March 1945 |
| Walter Appel* | Gefreiter | 5 | JG 27 | KIA 14 June 1944 |
| Jose Damaso Arango-Lopez | Hauptmann | 6 | JG 51 | |
| Elmar Arensmeyer | Feldwebel | 16/10 | JG 51, JG 101, EJGr Ost | |
| Heinz Arnold* | Oberfeldwebel | 49/48 | JG 5, JG 7 | KIA 17 April 1945 |
| Walter Arnold | Leutnant | 8/6 | JG 27 | |
| Rudolf Artner | Unteroffizier | 20 | JG 5 | |
| Heinrich Asche | Unteroffizier | 8 | JG 54 | |
| Roloff von Aspern* | Oberleutnant | 19 | JG 21, JG 76, JG 54 | KIA 17 November 1940 |
| Hermann Aubrecht | Oberfeldwebel | 31/28 | JG 51 | German Cross |
| Hans-Heinz Augenstein* | Oberleutnant | 46/41/40 | NJG 1 | Knight's Cross KIA 6 December 1944 – 10 km NW of Münster-Handorf airfield by a 85 Sqdn Mosquito |
| Jakob Augustin* | Leutnant | 16 | JG 2 | MIA 15 July 1942 |
| Hans Autenrieth | Hauptmann | 23/22/21 | NJG 1, NJG 4 | German Cross |
| Vdenko Avdic | Leutnant | 8 | JG 52, JG 104 | |
| Luis Azqueta-Brunet | Oberleutnant | 5 | JG 51 | |

### B

| Name | Rank | Claims | Unit | Notes |
| Sophus Baagoe* | Oberleutnant | 14 | ZG 76 | Knight's Cross KIA 14 May 1941 |
| Werner Baake | Hauptmann | 43/41/40 | NJG 1 | Knight's Cross |
| Emil Babenz | Oberfeldwebel | 23 | JG 26, JG 53 | German Cross |
| Otto Rudolf Bach* | Leutnant | 9+ | JG 2, EJGr West, JG 1 | incl. 8 heavy bombers KIA 7 August 1944 |
| Fridolin Bachhuber* | Feldwebel | 10 | JG 103, JG 105, JG 54 | KIA 1 January 1945 |
| Friidrich-Karl Bachmann* | Oberleutnant | 31 | JG 52 | KIA 4 September 1942 |
| Fritz Bachmann | Leutnant | 5 | JG 5, JG 2 | |
| Herbert Bachnick* | Leutnant | 80/78 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross KIA 7 August 1944 |
| Johann Badum* | Leutnant | 54/50+ | JG 77 | Knight's Cross KIA 12 January 1943 |
| Hans Baer* | Hauptmann | 9 | 10.(N)/JG 72, 12.(N)/JG 2, NJG 3, NJG 5 | KIFA 20/21 December 1943 in crash at Garwitz near Parchim due to engine exploding on takeoff |
| Jens Bahnsen* | Feldwebel | 18 | JG 27, JG 53 | KIA 19 August 1943 |
| Günther Bahr | Oberfeldwebel | 37/35 | NJG 6 | Knight's Cross |
| Hans-Joachim Bahr* | Leutnant | 8+ | JG 2, JG 5 | KIA 13 July 1942 |
| Eberhard Baier | Unteroffizier | 6 | KG 51 | |
| Josef Baldes | Oberfeldwebel | 5 | JG 5 | |
| Wilfried Balfanz* | Oberleutnant | 8 | JG 51, JG 53 | KIA 24 June 1941 |
| Wilhelm Balthasar* | Major | 47 (incl. 7 in Spain)/45 | JG 27, JG 3, JG 2, JG 1 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 3 July 1941 |
| Fritz Bär | Feldwebel | 8 | JG 51 | |
| "Pritzel" Heinrich Bär | Oberstleutnant | 222/221/220/208 | JG 51, JG 77, JG 1, JG 3, EJG 2, JV 44 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords incl. 21 heavy bombers |
| Wilfried Balfanz* | Oberleutnant | 10 | JG 51 | KIA 24 June 1941 |
| Kuno Balz* | Feldwebel | 12 | JG 51 | KIA 18 March 1943 |
| Herbert Bareuther* | Leutnant | 55 | JG 51, JG 3 | German Cross KIA 30 April 1945 |
| Gerhard Barkhorn | Major | 301/300 | JG 2, JG 52, JG 6, JV 44 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords mission-to-claim ratio of 3.67. |
| Gerhard-Alfred Bärsdorf* | Leutnant | 7/5 | JG 300 | KIA 28 July 1944 |
| Walter Barte | Major | 18 | NJG 1, NJG 3 | |
| Heinrich Bartels* | Oberfeldwebel | 99/94 | JG 5, JG 27 | Knight's Cross KIA 23 December 1944 |
| Franz Barten* | Hauptmann | 52 | JG 51, JG 53 | Knight's Cross KIA 4 August 1944 |
| Hieronymus Bartosch* | Unteroffizier | 13 | JG 51 | KIA 21 February 1944 |
| Erich Bartz | Unteroffizier | 30 | JG 51 | |
| Wilhelm Batz | Major | 237/233 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords mission-to-claim ratio of 1.88. |
| Helmut Baudach* | Oberfeldwebel | 20+ | JG 2, EKdo 262, Kdo Nowotny, JG 7 | KIA 22 February 1945 |
| Alfons Bauer* | Unteroffizier | 5 | JG 51 | KIA 8 August 1941 |
| Franz Bauer* | Hauptmann | 9 | JG 53 | KIA 18 June 1944 |
| Herbert Bauer | Major | 11 | StG 2, SG 103 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Konrad Bauer | Oberfeldwebel | 68/57/38+ | JG 51, JG 3, JG 300 | Knight's Cross incl. 32 heavy bombers |
| Ludwig Bauer* | Oberleutnant | 12 | JG 27 | MIA |
| Viktor Bauer | Oberst | 106/104 | JG 3 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves mission-to-claim ratio of 3.77. |
| Wolfrat Bauer | Oberleutnant | 6 | NJG 1 | KIA 4 January 1943 in crash at Duisburg-Hamborn; shot down by 'friendly' Flak |
| Helmut Bauhuber* | Unteroffizier | 13 | JG 51 | KIA 12 July 1944 |
| Heinz Baum* | Feldwebel | 24 | JG 3 | MIA 12 December 1942 |
| Helmut Baumann* | Leutnant | 38 | JG 51 | KIA 17 February 1944 |
| Hans-Joachim Beck | Oberleutnant | 5 | NJG 101 | |
| Rudolf Beck* | Feldwebel | 10 | JG 51 | KIA 27 November 1942 |
| Karl-Heinz Becker | Feldwebel | 7 | NJG 11 | |
| Ludwig Becker* | Hauptmann | 46/44 | 14.(Z)/LG 1, NJG 1, NJG 2 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 26 February 1943 |
| Martin Becker | Hauptmann | 58/56/54 | NJG 4, NJG 6 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Paul Becker | Leutnant | 20/19 | JG 27 | |
| Friedrich Beckh* | Oberstleutnant | 48/40 | JG 51, JG 52 | Knight's Cross KIA 21 June 1942 |
| Gerhard Beckh* | Oberleutnant | 12 | JG 51 | KIA 11 January 1944 |
| Helmut Beckmann | Leutnant | 18 | JG 27 | |
| Franz-Josef Beerenbrock | Leutnant | 117/111 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves mission-to-claim ratio of 3.41. |
| Artur Beese | Oberleutnant | 22 | JG 26 | German Cross |
| Wilhelm Beier | Oberleutnant | 38/37/36 | NJG 2, NJG 1 | Knight's Cross |
| Hans Beißwenger* | Oberleutnant | 152/150 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves MIA 6 March 1943 mission-to-claim ratio of 3.29. |
| Theodor Bellinghausen | Hauptmann | 8/7 | NJG 100 | |
| Helmut Belser* | Hauptmann | 36 | JG 53 | Knight's Cross KIA 19 June 1942 |
| Jakob Bender | Oberleutnant | 6 | ZG 76, NJG 1, NJ-Schule 1, NJG 101, NJG 102 | |
| Karl-Heinz Bendert | Oberleutnant | 55/44 | JG 27, JG 104 | Knight's Cross |
| Helmut Bennemann | Oberstleutnant | 93/92/89 | JG 52, JG 53 | Knight's Cross |
| Anton Benning | Leutnant | 28/14/13+ | JG Herrmann, JG 300, JG 301, JG 302 | Knight's Cross |
| Sigfried Benz | Leutnant | 6 | JG 26 | |
| Friedrich Berger | Oberleutnant | 5 | NJG 3, NJGr 10 | |
| Horst Berger* | Oberleutnant | 26 | JG 5 | KIA 8 May 1944 |
| Götz Bergmann* | Leutnant | 16+ | JG 51 | KIA 20 July 1944 |
| Helmut Bergmann | Hauptmann | 36/33 | NJG 4, NJG 1 | Knight's Cross |
| Max Bernhardt* | Unteroffizier | 11+ | JG 51 | KIA 10 August 1943 |
| Heinz-Edgar Berres* | Hauptmann | 52/49 | JG 53 | Knight's Cross MIA 25 July 1943 |
| Hans Berschwinger* | Oberfeldwebel | 20/12/11 | NJG 2, NJG 1 | KIA 15 February 1944 |
| Günther Bertram | Oberleutnant | 35/29/28 | KG 4, NJG 100 | |
| Otto Bertram | Major | 22 (incl. 9 in Spain)/24 | J/88, JG 2, JG 101, JG 6 | Knight's Cross |
| Arthur Beth | Feldwebel | 17 | JG 5 | |
| Siegfried Bethke | Hauptmann | 12 | JG 2 | |
| Erich Beulich* | Oberfeldwebel | 10 | JG 5 | KIA 14 September 1943 |
| Ernst Beutelspacher* | Oberleutnant | 5 | SG 2 | Knight's Cross KIA 22 July 1944 |
| Gerhard Beutin* | Oberfeldwebel | 60 | JG 54 | KIA 1 February 1943 |
| Franz Beyer* | Major | 81/83/84 | JG 3 | Knight's Cross KIA 11 February 1944 |
| Georg Beyer | Oberleutnant | 7 | JG 26 | |
| Heinz Beyer | Oberfeldwebel | 27 | JG 5 | |
| Konrad Beyer | Feldwebel | 13 | NJG 4 | |
| Werner Bielefeld | Leutnant | 21 | JG 51 | |
| Ludwig Bietmann | Hauptmann | 6 | NJG 1 | KIA 10/11 September 1942 |
| Josef Bigge | Leutnant | 6 | JG 2, JGr West, EJG 1 | WIA 6 September 1943 in crash on landing at Saint-André-de-l’Eure |
| Heinz Birk | Oberfeldwebel | 14 | JG 5 | |
| Hans-Georg Birkenstock | Oberleutnant | 7 | NJG 1, NJG 4, NJG 6 | KIA 19/20 May 1944 in crash at Vossenack/Eifel |
| Hans-Joachim Birkner* | Leutnant | 117 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross KIFA 14 December 1944 mission-to-claim ratio of 2.42. |
| Emil Bitsch* | Hauptmann | 108/106 | JG 3 | Knight's Cross KIA 15 March 1944 |
| Helmut Bittkau | Oberleutnant | 11 | JG 51 | |
| Franz Blazytko | Oberfeldwebel | 30 | JG 27 | |
| Joachim Blechschmidt* | Oberstleutnant | 17 | ZG 1 | Knight's Cross MIA 13 July 1943 |
| Günther Bleckmann* | Major | 33 | SG 1, SG 2 | Knight's Cross KIA 1 June 1944 |
| Paul Bley* | Oberleutnant | 8 | ZG 26 | KIFA 28 October 1944 |
| Walter Blume | Major | 14/8 | JG 26, JG 27 | |
| Hans-Ekkehard Bob | Major | 60/57 | JG 54, JG 3, JG 51, EJG 2, JV 44 | Knight's Cross |
| Eberhard Bock* | Hauptmann | 28 | JG 3, JG 1, JG 104, JG 27 | KIA 28 May 1944 |
| Heinz Bock* | Leutnant | 5 | NJG 101, NJG 1 | KIA 2/3 October 1943 |
| Karl Böhm-Tettelbach | Oberstleutnant | 6 | ZG 26 | |
| Kurt Bohn | Feldwebel | 5 | JG 26 | |
| Paul Bohn | Oberleutnant | 5 | NJG 2 | |
| Otto Böhner | Oberleutnant | 5 | JG 53 | |
| Herbert Bönsch* | Hauptmann | 11 | Z./KG 30, NJG 1, NJG 2 | KIA night of 31 July/1 August 1942 |
| Karl Bolte* | Leutnant | 6 | JG 27 | KIA |
| Helmut-Felix Bolz | Hauptmann | 56/22 | JG 2 | |
| Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin | Major | 39/35/33 | 14.(Z)/LG 1, NJG 3, NJG 1, NJG 102 | Knight's Cross |
| Hubertus von Bonin* | Oberstleutnant | 77 (incl. 4 in Spain)/65 | JG 26, JG 52, JG 54 | Knight's Cross KIA 15 December 1943 |
| Kurt Bonow | Hauptmann | 8 | NJG 100, NJGr 10 | |
| Hans Boos* | Oberleutnant | 41 | JG 51 | KIA 21 April 1943 |
| Adolf Borchers | Major | 132 | JG 51, JG 52 | Knight's Cross |
| Walter Borchers* | Oberstleutnant | 59/43/40 | ZG 76, NJG 3, NJG 5 | Knight's Cross KIA 6 March 1945 |
| Eberhard von Boremski | Hauptmann | 90/88+ | JG 3, EJG 1 | Knight's Cross |
| Ernst Börngen | Hauptmann | 45/41/35 | JG 27 | Knight's Cross |
| Hans-Joachim Borreck | Unteroffizier | 5 | JG 26 | |
| Karl Borris | Major | 43 | JG 26 | Knight's Cross |
| Oskar Bösch | Feldwebel | 18 | JG 3, JG 301, JG 7 | |
| Wolfgang Böwing-Treuding* | Oberleutnant | 46 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross KIA 11 February 1943 |
| Richard Brand | Oberfeldwebel | 32 | JG 51 | |
| Felix-Maria Brandis* | Oberleutnant | 14 | JG 5 | |
| Kurt Brändle* | Major | 180/170 | JG 53, JG 3 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 3 November 1943 |
| Paul Brandt | Leutnant | 30/29 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross KIA 24 December 1944 |
| Walter Brandt | Oberleutnant | 57/42 | LG 2, JG 77, JG 3 | Knight's Cross |
| Hans-Heinrich Breitfeld* | Hauptmann | 9 | NJG 5 | KIA 9/10 April 1945 on approach to Lübeck-Blankensee |
| Peter Bremer | Oberfeldwebel | 38 | JG 54 | |
| Joachim Brendel | Hauptmann | 189 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Heinz Bretnütz* | Hauptmann | 37/32 | JG 53 | Knight's Cross DOW 27 June 1941 |
| Klaus Bretschneider* | Oberleutnant | 34/24/22 | JG 300 | Knight's Cross KIA 24 December 1944 |
| Wendelin Breukel* | Leutnant | 13 | NJG 2 | KIFA 1 March 1944 during low level transit flight |
| Adolf Breves | Hauptmann | 18/17 | NJG 1 | |
| Walter Briegleb | Oberleutnant | 24 | NJG 3, NJG 2 | |
| Franz Brinkhaus | Hauptmann | 13 | NJG 1, NJG 2, NJG 3 | |
| Arnold Brinkmann | Hauptmann | 16 | NJG 3 | |
| Hugo Broch | Leutnant | 81 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross mission-to-claim ratio of 4.00. |
| Wilhelm Bromen | Oberleutnant | 7 | SG 2, SG 151, SG 9 | Knight's Cross |
| Friedrich Brock | Oberleutnant | 5 | JG 54, JG 26 | |
| Horst Brock* | Leutnant | 17+ | JG 3 | KIA 3 November 1943 |
| Jürgen Brocke* | Leutnant | 42/39 | JG 77 | Knight's Cross KIA 15 September 1942 mission-to-claim ratio of 3.57. |
| Hugo Brönner | Oberleutnant | 16 | JG 51 | |
| Herbert Broennle* | Leutnant | 59/58 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross KIA 4 July 1943 |
| Albert Brunner* | Oberfeldwebel | 53 | JG 5 | Knight's Cross KIA 7 May 1943 mission-to-claim ratio of 2.55. |
| Josef Brunner | Feldwebel | 7 | NJG 1, NJG 6 | |
| Hermann Buchner | Leutnant | 58 | SG 2, JG 7 | Knight's Cross |
| Horst Bucholz | Leutnant | 5 | JG 51 | |
| Max Bucholz | Major | 28 | JG 3, JG 5, JG 101 | Knight's Cross |
| Alfred Budde* | Leutnant | 20 | JG 54 | KIA 27 December 1944 |
| Adolf Buhl* | Oberleutnant | 5 | LG 2 | KIA 27 September 1940 |
| Kurt Bühligen | Oberstleutnant | 112/99+ | JG 2 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords incl. 24 heavy bombers |
| Johannes Bunzek* | Leutnant | 75/78 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross KIA 11 December 1943 |
| Eberhard Burath | Oberleutnant | 6 | JG 1, JG 51 | |
| Lutz-Wilhelm Burckhardt | Hauptmann | 69/58/57+ | JG 77, JG 1 | Knight's Cross |
| Alfred Burk | Oberleutnant | 28/27 | JG 52, JG 27 | |
| Josef Bürschgens | Hauptmann | 10 | JG 26 | |
| Erwin Busch | Oberleutnant | 8 | JG 26 | |
| Rudolf Busch* | Hauptmann | 40/27+ | JG 51 | KIA 17 January 1943 |
| Franz Buschmann* | Hauptmann | 10/8 | NJG 2, NJG 1, NJG 3 | KIA 28 June 1944 |
| Heinz Busse* | Oberleutnant | 22/19 | JG 51 | KIA 25 August 1944 |
| Rolf Bussmann | Hauptmann | 23/20 | Z./KG 30, NJG 1, NJG 2, NJG 3, NJG 5 | |
| Erich Büttner* | Oberfeldwebel | 24/21 | JG 51, EKdo 262, Kdo Nowotny, JG 7 | KIA 20 March 1945 |
| Johannes Büttner | Oberfeldwebel | 16 | JG 51 | |

### C

| Name | Rank | Claims | Unit | Notes |
| Horst Carganico* | Major | 60 | JG 5 | Knight's Cross KIA 27 May 1944 |
| Georg Christl | Major | 7 | ZG 26, JG 10 | Knight's Cross |
| Herbert Christmann* | Oberleutnant | 5 | JG 11, JG 50 | KIA 20 August 1944 |
| Ernst Christof | Feldwebel | 9 | JG 26 | |
| Emil Clade | Hauptmann | 26 | JG 27 | |
| Georg Claus* | Oberleutnant | 18 | JG 51 | KIA 11 November 1940 |
| Erwin Clausen* | Major | 132/100 | JG 77, JG 11 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 4 October 1943 |
| Max Clerico | Hauptmann | 7 | JG 54 | |
| Karlheinz Cordes | Leutnant | 43+ | JG 54 | |
| Wilhelm Crinius | Leutnant | 114 | JG 53 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Peter Crump | Oberleutnant | 24 | JG 26 | |
| Franz Czech | Feldwebel | 60/33 | JG 3 | |

### D

| Name | Rank | Claims | Unit | Notes |
| Klaus Dadd* | Feldwebel | 14 | JGr Ost, JG 52 | KIA 19 June 1943 |
| Walther Dahl | Oberst | 129/128/90+ | JG 3, JG 300 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Hans Dahmen* | Gefreiter | 5 | JGr West, JG 105, JG 300 | KIA 2 March 1945 |
| Hugo Dahmer | Hauptmann | 45/36 | JG 26, JG 5, JG 2 | Knight's Cross |
| Helmut Dahms | Oberfeldwebel | 28/24 | NJG 5, NJG 100 | |
| Friedrich Dahn | Leutnant | 25 | JG 77, JG 5 | |
| Paul-Heinrich Dähne* | Hauptmann | 99+ | JG 52, JG 1 | Knight's Cross KIFA 24 April 1945 |
| Hans Dammers* | Leutnant | 113/103 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross DOW 17 March 1944 |
| Emil Darjes | Leutnant | 82 | JG 54 | |
| Franz Daspelgruber* | Oberleutnant | 46 | JG 3 | KIA 16 July 1943 |
| Rudi Dassow | Leutnant | 22/22+ | ZG 76, JG 6 | Knight's Cross |
| Richard Delakowitz | Oberleutnant | 7 | NJG 4 | |
| Karl-Emil Demuth | Oberleutnant | 10+ | JG 1 | |
| Gustav Denk* | Oberleutnant | 67 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross KIA 13 February 1943 |
| Robert Denzel* | Leutnant | 9 | NJG 1, NJG 3, NJG 2 | KIA 25/26 June 1943 |
| Adolf Dickfeld | Oberst | 136/132 | JG 52, JG 2, JG 11 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Erwin Diekwisch | Hauptmann | 12 | StG 1 | Knight's Cross |
| Ulrich Diesing* | Generalmajor | 15 | ZG 1 | Knight's Cross KICA 17 April 1945 |
| Willi Dimter* | Oberleutnant | 7 | NJG 1, NJG 3, NJG 2 | KIA 17 September 1942 |
| Fritz Dinger* | Oberleutnant | 67/64 | JG 53 | Knight's Cross KIA 27 July 1943 |
| Hans Dipple | Hauptmann | 21 | JG 26 | |
| Heinrich Dittlmann | Oberfeldwebel | 60 | JG 51 | |
| Gottfried Dietze | Leutnant | 5 | JG 26 | |
| Anton Döbele* | Leutnant | 94/93 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross KIA 11 November 1943 |
| Hans Döbrich | Feldwebel | 65 | JG 5 | Knight's Cross |
| Kurt Dombacher | Oberleutnant | 68 | JG 5, JG 51 | Knight's Cross |
| Otto Dommeratzky* | Leutnant | 38/11+ | LG 2, SG 1, SG 2, SG 151 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 13 October 1944 |
| Georg Dörffel* | Major | 30+ | LG 2, SG 1, SG 4 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 26 May 1944 |
| Arnold Döring | Leutnant | 23/5+/5 | KG 53, NJG 300, JG 3, JG 5 | Knight's Cross |
| Wilhelm Dormann | Hauptmann | 14 | NJG 1, NJG 102 | |
| Werner Dörnbrack | Major | 29/23+ | LG 2, SG 1, SG 2, SG 4 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Franz Dörr | Hauptmann | 128/122 | JG 5 | Knight's Cross |
| Edgar Dörre | Feldwebel | 9 | JG 26 | |
| Karl Dörscheln | Oberleutnant | 7 | NJG 101, NJG 6 | |
| Hans Dortenmann | Oberleutnant | 38/39 | JG 26, JG 54 | Knight's Cross |
| Heinrich Dreisbach | Oberfeldwebel | 16 | JG 5 | |
| Martin Drewes | Major | 52/48/45 | ZG 76, NJG 3, NJG 1 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Ernst-Georg Drünkler | Hauptmann | 47 (incl. two by day)/45/43 | ZG 2, NJG 1, NJG 5, NJG 3 | Knight's Cross |
| Alfred Druschel* | Oberst | 7+ | LG 2, SG 1, SG 4 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords MIA 1 January 1945 |
| Rudi Düding | Oberfeldwebel | 18/16 | NJG 5, NJG 100 | |
| Ernst Düllberg | Major | 45/43 | JG 3, JG 27, JG 76, JG 7 | Knight's Cross |
| Friedrich Dünkel | Hauptmann | 10 | NAG 2, NAG 4, NAG 1 | |
| Peter Düttmann | Leutnant | 150/147 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross |

### E

| Name | Rank | Claims | Unit | Notes |
| Karl Ebbighausen | Hauptmann | 7/10 | JG 26 | |
| Heinz Ebeling | Oberleutnant | 18 | JG 26 | Knight's Cross |
| Kurt Ebener | Oberleutnant | 57/51 | JG 3, JG 11 | Knight's Cross |
| Kurt Ebersberger | Hauptmann | 30/31 | JG 26 | |
| Helmut Eberspächer | Hauptmann | 7 | SKG 10, NSGr 20, SG 151 | Knight's Cross |
| Manfred Eberwein | Oberleutnant | 44+ | JG 54 | |
| Reinhold Eckardt* | Oberleutnant | 24/20 | ZG 52, ZG 76, NJG 1, NJG 3 | Knight's Cross KIA 30 July 1942 |
| Franz Eckerle* | Hauptmann | 59 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves MIA 14 February 1942 |
| Georg-Peter Eder | Major | 78/50+ | JG 51, JG 26, JG 1, JG 2 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves incl. 36 heavy bombers |
| Johannes Edmann* | Oberfeldwebel | 5 | JG 5, JG 26, JGr. West | KIA 21 March 1944 |
| Walter Ehle* | Major | 36/34/33 | ZG 1, NJG 1 | Knight's Cross KIA 17 November 1943 |
| Karl-Heinz Ehlen | Leutnant | 7 | JG 26 | |
| Hans Ehlers* | Major | 55/48 | JG 3, JG 1 | Knight's Cross KIA 27 December 1944 incl. 24 heavy bombers |
| Rudolf Ehrenberger* | Oberfeldwebel | 47 | JG 53 | Knight's Cross KIA 8 March 1944 |
| Peter Ehrhardt | Oberleutnant | 22/20 | NJG 1, NJG 5, NJG 11 | |
| Heinrich Ehrler* | Major | 209/182+ | JG 5, JG 7 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 4 April 1945 |
| Diethelm von Eichel-Streiber | Major | 96/91 | JG 1, JG 26, JG 51, JG 27, JV 44 | Knight's Cross |
| Günther Eichhorn | Leutnant | 8 | JG 5 | |
| Heinrich Eickhoff | Oberleutnant | 6 | JG 27 | |
| Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel | Oberleutnant | 35 | JG 3 | German Cross |
| Franz Eisenach | Major | 129 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross |
| Xaver Ellenrieder | Leutnant | 13 | JG 26 | |
| Franz Elles | Feldwebel | 5 | JG 27 | |
| Willi Elstermann | Hauptmann | 7 | JGr 152, ZG 52, ZG 2, NJG 3, ZG 26, JG 6 | |
| Walter Engel | Hauptmann | 10/9 | KG 3, NJG 5 | Knight's Cross |
| Wilhelm Engel | Oberleutnant | 20/18 | NJG 1, NJG 4, NJG 6 | WIA 23/24 February 1945 |
| Siegfried Engfer | Oberleutnant | 59/58 | JG 3, JG 1 | Knight's Cross |
| Egon Engling* | Feldwebel | 12 | NJG 2, NJG 3 | KIA 26 March 1945 |
| Hubert Engst | Oberfeldwebel | 10+/5 | JG Herrmann, JG 300 | |
| Albert Espenlaub* | Oberfeldwebel | 14 | JG 27 | |
| Wolf-Udo Ettel* | Oberleutnant | 124/121 | JG 3, JG 27 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 17 July 1943 |
| Heinz Ewald | Leutnant | 84/83 | JG 5, JG 52 | Knight's Cross |
| Wolfgang Ewald | Major | 78 (incl. 1 in Spain)/65 | JG 52, JG 3 | Knight's Cross |
| Waldemar Eyrich* | Feldwebwel | 36 | JG 53, JG 3 | KIA 11 April 1944 |

### F

| Name | Rank | Claims | Unit | Notes |
| Helmut Fahlbusch* | Leutnant | 6 | ZG 76 | KIA 1 May 1940 |
| Hans Fahrenberger | Feldwebel | 8 | JG 27, JGr Süd | |
| Gottfried Fahrmann | Leutnant | 7 | JG 77, JG 7, JV 44 | |
| Wolfgang Falck | Oberst | 7 | ZG 1, NJG 1 | Knight's Cross |
| Horst-Günther von Fassong* | Hauptmann | 136/63 | JG 51, JG 11 | Knight's Cross KIA 1 January 1945 |
| Hans-Joachim Fast | Unteroffizier | 5 | JG 26 | |
| Josef Federle | Oberfeldwebel | 7 | NJG 6 | WIA 14/15 March 1945 |
| Leopold Fellerer | Hauptmann | 41/36/35 | NJG 1, NJG 2, NJG 5, NJG 6 | Knight's Cross |
| Georg Fengler | Oberleutnant | 16/14 | NJG 1 | |
| Walter Fenske* | Hauptmann | 15 | LG 1, NJG 1, NJG 4, NJG 2, NJG 5, NJG 100, NJGr 10 | Died at 27 March 1944 due to injuries sustained in a non-operational crash at 26 March |
| Frithjof Fensch | Leutnant | 12 | NJG 4 | |
| Heinz Ferger* | Hauptmann | 19 | NJG 1, NJG 3, NJG 2 | KIA 9/10 April 1945 on approach to Lübeck-Blankensee |
| Herbert Findeisen | Hauptmann | 67 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross |
| Günter Fink* | Hauptmann | 46/48 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross KIA 15 May 1943 |
| August Fischer | Hauptmann | 12/10 | NJG 5, NJG 100 | |
| Siegfried Fischer | Oberfeldwebel | 15 | StG 1, SG 1 | Knight's Cross |
| Kurt Fladrich | Hauptmann | 15 | NJG 1, NJG 4 | |
| Erwin Fleig | Leutnant | 66/55+ | JG 51 | Knight's Cross |
| Otto Fönnekold* | Oberleutnant | 136/134 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross KIA 31 August 1944 |
| Hermann Förster* | Oberfeldwebel | 13/12 | 11.(N)/JG 2, NJG 1, JG 27 | KIA 14 December 1941 |
| Josef Förster | Oberleutnant | 15 | NJG 2, NJG 3 | |
| Paul Förster | Major | 8 | ZG 26, NJG 1 | |
| Josef Fözö | Major | 27 (3 incl. Spain)/23 | JG 51, JG 108 | Knight's Cross |
| Gustav Francsi | Leutnant | 56/60/59 | NJG 200, NJG 100 | Knight's Cross |
| Hans-Dieter Frank* | Major | 55/53/51 | ZG 1, NJG 1 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 27/28 September 1943 |
| Heinz Frank* | Major | 8 | LG 2, SG 1, SG 2, SG 151 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves DOW 7 October 1944 |
| Rudolf Frank* | Leutnant | 46/45/43 | NJG 3 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 26/27 April 1944 |
| Alfred Franke* | Leutnant | 60/59/58 | JG 53 | Knight's Cross KIA 9 September 1942 |
| Richard Franz | Oberleutnant | 15 | JG 27, JG 77, JG 3, JG 11 | |
| Ludwig Franzisket | Major | 43/39 | JG 27 | Knight's Cross |
| Max Franzisket* | Hauptmann | 6+ | ZG 76, JG 77, JG 5, ZG 1 | MIA 19 July 1943 |
| Hans Frese | Leutnant | 44 | JG 3 | |
| Wilhelm Freuwörth | Oberfeldwebel | 58/48 | JG 52, JG 26 | Knight's Cross |
| Hugo Frey* | Hauptmann | 32/17 | JG 11, JG 1 | Knight's Cross KIA 6 March 1944 |
| Siegfried Freytag | Major | 102/89 | JG 77 | Knight's Cross |
| Herbert Friebel* | Leutnant | 58/57 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross KIA 15 May 1944 |
| Gerhard Friedrich* | Major | 30/29 | NJG 2, NJG 1, NJG 4, NJG 6 | Knight's Cross KIA 16 March 1945 |
| Günther Friedrich* | Hauptmann | 6 | NJG 4, NJG 1 | KIA 27/28 September 1943 |
| Gustav Frielinghaus | Hauptmann | 74/69 | JG 3 | Knight's Cross |
| Heinz de Fries | Oberfeldwebel | 10 | NJG 100 | |
| Otto Fries | Leutnant | 15 | NJG 1 | |
| Hans-Jürgen Frölich | Feldwebel | 5 | JG 26 | |
| Karl Fuchs | Oberfeldwebel | 64 | JG 54 | |
| Robert Fuchs | Oberfeldwebel | 17+ | JG 54 | |
| Erich Führmann | Oberfeldwebel | 5 | JG 11 | |
| Heinrich Füllgrabe* | Oberleutnant | 65/63 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross KIA 30 January 1945 |
| Ralph Furch | Leutnant | 31 | JG 51 | |
| Hans Fuß* | Leutnant | 71/69 | JG 3 | Knight's Cross KIFA 10 November 1942 |
| Hugo Fütscher | Feldwebel | 5 | NJG 3 | PoW night of 31 December 1944 - 1 January 1945 |