# List of World War II aces from Germany: T–Z

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

* Gerhard Thyben, 157 claims
* Willy Unger, 22 heavy bombers
* Heinz Vinke, night fighter pilot
* Theodor Weissenberger, 206 claims
* Helmut Wick, the leading Luftwaffe fighter pilot when killed in action
* Josef Zwernemann, 126 claims
By surname: A–F • G–L • M–P • Q–S
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, Prien, Spick, Ring, Mathews, Foreman and Zabecki.

### T

| Name | Rank | Claims | Unit | Notes |
| Heinrich Tammen* | Unteroffizier | 19 | JG 52 | KIA 30 November 1944 |
| Otto Tange* | Oberleutnant | 68/63 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross KIA 30 July 1943 |
| Hermann Tangerding* | Oberleutnant | 7 | NAGr 21, JG 27 | KIA 31 August 1942 |
| Kurt Tangermann | Leutnant | 45 | JG 54, JG 52 | |
| Ewald Tankink | Oberfeldwebel | 8+ | LG 2 | German Cross |
| Kurt Tanzer | Leutnant | 143/35+ | JG 51 | Knight's Cross |
| Hans-Ulrich Tartsch* | Leutnant | 5 | JGr West, JG 2 | KIA 8 June 1944 |
| Rudolf Täschner* | Oberfeldwebel | 20 | JG 53, JG 2 | KIA 28 August 1943 |
| Hans Taubenberger | Oberleutnant | 34/13+ | JG 51 | |
| Gabriel Tautscher* | Unteroffizier | 58/55 | JG 51 | German Cross KIA 12 January 1944 |
| Fritz Tegtmeier | Oberleutnant | 146 | JG 54, JG 7 | Knight's Cross |
| Waldemar Teige* | Oberleutnant | 12 | KG 53 | Knight's Cross KIA 3 October 1942 |
| Wilhelm Telge* | Hauptmann | 14/13 | NJG 1 | KIA 1 September 1943 |
| Paul Temme | Oberleutnant | 5 | JG 2, JG 27 | |
| Ernst Terry* | Oberleutnant | 10/9 (incl. 2 in Spain) | J/88, JG 51 | KIA 29 October 1940 |
| Herbert Ter Steegen* | Feldwebel | 10–12 | NJG 5 | KIA 24 May 1944 |
| Otto Teschner* | Leutnant | 6 | NJG 1 | KIFA 25 December 1944 |
| Gerd Tetteroo | Leutnant | 8 | JG 51 | |
| Helmut Tetzner | Fahnenjunker-Feldwebel | 7+ | NAGr 5 | |
| Alfred Teumer* | Oberleutnant | 76/74 | JG 54, JG 7 | Knight's Cross KIFA 4 October 1944 mission-to-claim ratio of 3.95. |
| Hans Tewes | Unteroffizier | 5 | JG 53 | |
| Bruno Tezzele* | Unteroffizier | 13 | JG 54 | MIA 14 September 1944 |
| Karl Thaler* | Leutnant | 27 | JG 54 | KIA 23 November 1944 |
| Gustav Tham | Hauptmann | 14 | NJG 5, NJG 10 | |
| Willi Theimann* | Leutnant | 45/42 | JG 51 | German Cross MIA 29 July 1943 |
| Hans Theis | Feldwebel | 7 | JG 300, JG 7 | |
| Ludwig Theopold* | Oberleutnant | 10 | JG 77 | KFIA 26 January 1943 |
| Edwin Thiel* | Hauptmann | 76/71 | JG 52, JG 51 | Knight's Cross KIA 14 July 1944 |
| Werner Thielen* | Leutnant | 10 | JG 54 | KIA 12 June 1944 |
| Werner Thierfelder* | Hauptmann | 27 | ZG 26 | Knight's Cross KIFA 18 July 1944 |
| Oskar Thimm | Feldwebel | 7 | JG 5 | |
| Wolfgang Thimmig | Oberstleutnant | 23 | NJG 1, NJG 2, NJG 4 | German Cross |
| Ernst Thoma | Unteroffizier | 7 | JG 77 | |
| Hans Thomann* | Unteroffizier | 8 | JG 5 | KIA 19 August 1943 |
| Erich Thomas | Oberleutnant | 15+/12 | JG 52 | |
| Helmut Thomas* | Leutnant | 8 | JG 52 | KIA 12 January 1944 |
| Friedrich Thorl* | Oberleutnant | 6 | NJG 4 | KIA 13 September 1944 |
| Franz Thümer* | Unteroffizier | 5 | JG 3 | KIA 27 December 1942 |
| Rudolf Thun | Oberleutnant | 7| 5+ | NJG 5, NJG 6 | |
| Heinrich Thüroff | Leutnant | 8/5 | JG 53 | |
| Gerhard Thyben | Oberleutnant | 157 | JG 3, JG 54 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves mission-to-claim ratio of 2.45. |
| Ekkehard Tichy* | Hauptmann | 25 | JG 53, JG 3 | Knight's Cross KIA 16 August 1944 |
| Helmut Tiedmann | Hauptmann | 7 | JG 3 | |
| Horst Tietzen* | Hauptmann | 27 (incl. 7 in Spain) | JG 51 | Knight's Cross KIA 18 August 1940 |
| Hans Tilly* | Oberfeldwebel | 7 | JG 2 | KIA 7 July 1941 |
| Horst Timme* | Unteroffizier | 13 | JG 52 | KIA 28 August 1943 |
| Manfred Tischtau* | Oberleutnant | 9/5 | NJG 5 | KIFA 20 August 1944 |
| Werner Tismar* | Hauptmann | 5 | LG 2, JG 77 | KIFA 26 April 1942 |
| Joachim Titze* | Feldwebel | 25 | JG 54 | KIA 29 April 1943 |
| Johann-Jobst Todt | Oberfeldwebel | 10 | JG 301, JG 7 | |
| Günther Toll | Oberfeldwebel | 47+ | JG 2, JG 52 | German Cross |
| Günther Tonne* | Major | ~20 | SKG 210, SKG 10, ZG 1 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 15 July 1943 |
| Wolfgang Tonne* | Hauptmann | 122/120 | JG 53 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 20 April 1943 |
| Hans Torfer* | Leutnant | 7 | JG 27, JGr Süd | KIA 11 September 1944 |
| Heinz Tornow* | Leutnant | 12/8 (incl. 2 in Spain) | J/88, JG 51 | KIA 29 October 1940 |
| Willi Trabert | Leutnant | 6 | JG 27 | |
| Rudolf Traphan* | Oberfeldwebel | 8 | JG 3 | KIA 11 April 1944 |
| Eduard Tratt* | Major | 38/35 | ZG 1, ZG 26 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 22 February 1944 |
| Hannes Trautloft | Oberst | 58 (incl. 5 in Spain) | JG 51, JG 54 | Knight's Cross |
| Johann Trenke | Feldwebel | 9 | KG 51 | Knight's Cross |
| Rudolf Trenkel | Hauptmann | 138/132 | JG 77, JG 52 | Knight's Cross mission-to-claim ratio of 3.62. |
| Günther Treptau* | Oberfeldwebel | 5 | JG 11 | KIA 4 January 1945 |
| Horst Trepte* | Leutnant | 7 | JG 52 | MIA 3 August 1943 |
| Johannes Trestler* | Oberfeldwebel | 5+ | ZG 1, ZG 26 | KIA 31 January 1945 |
| Eberhard Graf von Treuberg* | Oberleutnant | 17 | JG 3, JG 52 | KIA 1 January 1945 |
| Werner Treusch* | Leutnant | 5 | Kommando Herrmann, JG 300 | KIFA 3 January 1944 |
| Willi Tritsch | Oberleunant | 20/12 | LG 2, SG 1, SG 151, SG 152 | Knight's Cross |
| Franz Trowal* | Leutnant | 7 | JG 77 | KIA 15 July 1944 |
| Hans Trübenbach | Major | 8 | JG 132, JG 52, LG 2 | |
| Martin Tschiersch* | Leutnant | 11 | NJG 2 | KIA 21 February 1945 |
| Kurt Tyralla* | Unteroffizier | 7+ | LG 2, SG 1, SG 2 | KIA 7 September 1942 |

### U

| Name | Rank | Claims | Unit | Notes |
| Kurt "Kuddel" Ubben* | Major | 111/110/93 | JG 77, JG 2 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 27 April 1944 |
| Richard Ubelbacher* | Feldwebel | 7 | JG 2 | KIA 3 March 1943 |
| Hans-Joachim Uhl* | Unteroffizier | 5 | JG 54 | KIA 11 August 1943 |
| Lothar Uhlig* | Oberfeldwebel | 8 | ZG 1, JG 76 | KIA 25 August 1944 |
| Martin Uhlmann | Feldwebel | 5 | NJG 4 | |
| Friedrich Graf von Uiberacker* | Leutnant | 7 | JG 26 | KIA 6 December 1942 |
| Martin Ulbrich | Oberfeldwebel | 35+/32+ | JG 51 | |
| Albert Ullrich | Feldwebel | 11 | JG 77, JGr Süd | |
| Günter Ulrich* | Fähnrich | 5 | JG 27, JG 7 | KIA 25 March 1945 |
| Horst Ulenberg* | Leutnant | 16 | JG 26 | KIA 12 July 1941 |
| Hans Umbach* | Oberfeldwebel | 5 | JG 1, JG 27 | KIFA 27 June 1941 |
| Johanes Ungar | Unteroffizier | 5 | JG 52 | |
| Willy Unger | Leutnant | 21 | JG 3, JG 7 | Knight's Cross |
| Oswald Unterlerchner | Leutnant | 11+ | JG 54 | |
| Robert Unzeitig* | Leutnant | 10/9 | JG 26 | KIA 12 April 1942 |
| Werner Ursinus | Hauptmann | 5 | JG 53 | |
| Ludwig Uschmann | Unteroffizier | 5 | JG 54 | |

### V

| Name | Rank | Claims | Unit | Notes |
| Martin von Vacano | Oberleutnant | 8 | JG 53, JGr Süd | |
| Heinrich Vandeweerd | Oberfähnrich | 6 | JG 26 | |
| Bernhard Vechtel | Oberleutnant | 108 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross |
| Ulrich Veh* | Oberfeldwebel | 5 | JG 300 | KIFA 8 March 1944 |
| Otto Venjakob* | Unteroffizier | 25 | JG 54 | KIA 23 June 1944 |
| Heinz Venth* | Oberleutnant | 17/14 | JG 51 | MIA 16 July 1944 |
| Erich Viebahn | Hauptmann | 5 | JG 51, JG 50, JGr Süd | |
| Helmut Viedebantt* | Major | 23 | ZG 1, SG 10 | Knight's Cross KIA 1 May 1945 |
| Martin Villing | Oberfeldwebel | 19+ | JG 77, JG 5 | |
| Heinz Vinke* | Oberfeldwebel | 54/51 | NJG 1 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 26 February 1944 |
| Otto Vinzent* | Oberleutnant | 45 | JG 54 | KIA 4 January 1944 |
| Hermann Virchow | Oberfeldwebel | 5 | SKG 10 | |
| Gerhard Vivroux* | Feldwebel | 10 | JG 3 | KIA 25 October 1944 |
| Karl Vockelmann* | Leutnant | 9/8 | JG 53 | KIA 19 May 1943 |
| Karl-Heinrich Vögel* | Leutnant | 7 | JG 5 | MIA 16 January 1944 |
| Veit Vögel | Stabs Adjutant | 7 | JG 51 | |
| Wolfgang Vögel* | Unteroffizier | 21 | JG 3 | MIA 1 August 1942 |
| Ferdinand Vögl | Hauptmann | 33/29 | JG 27 | German Cross |
| Heinz Völker* | Leutnant | 9/8 | NJG 2 | KIA 22 July 1944 |
| Helmut Vogel | Fahnenjunker-Oberfeldwebel | 10 | JG 53 | |
| Heinz-Gerhard Vogt* | Oberleutnant | 48/47 | JG 26 | Knight's Cross KIA 14 January 1945 mission-to-claim ratio of 3.63. |
| Dieter Voigt | Feldwebel | 17 | SG 2 | German Cross |
| Maximilian Volke* | Oberfeldwebel | 36 | JG 77 | German Cross Remains of plane and pilot found in 2007 near Modena, Italy. |
| Wilhelm-Erich Volkmann* | Oberleutnant | 8 | JG 51, JG 3 | KIA 2 December 1944 |
| Hans Vollet | Leutnant | 5 | JG 5 | |
| Karl-Heinz Völlkopf* | Leutnant | 6 | NJG 2, NJG 1 | KIA 21 June 1943 |
| Hans Vorhauer* | Feldwebel | 8 | JG 1 | KIA 10 October 1943 |
| Kurt Votel* | Leutnant | 9 | JG 2 | DOW 4 May 1941 |

### W

| Name | Rank | Claims | Unit | Notes |
| Friedrich Wachowiak* | Leutnant | 140/86 | JG 52, JG 3 | Knight's Cross KIA 16 July 1944 |
| Edmund Wagner* | Oberfeldwebel | 58/57 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross KIA 13 November 1941 |
| Erich Wagner* | Leutnant | 6 | JG 53 | KIA 21 October 1943 |
| Gerhard Wagner | Leutnant | 13 | NJG 5 | |
| Rudolf Wagner* | Leutnant | 81 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross MIA 11 December 1943 |
| Harry Wald | Feldwebel | 10+ | JG 3 | |
| Hans Waldmann* | Oberleutnant | 134/131 | JG 52, JG 3, JG 7 | Knight's Cross KIFA 18 March 1945 mission-to-claim ratio of 3.93. |
| Ernst Wallner* | Hauptmann | 5 | NJG 6 | KIA 4 December 1944 |
| Otto Wallner* | Feldwebel | 12 | JG 51 | KIFA 28 August 1943 |
| Karl-Heinz Wallrath* | Unteroffizier | 5 | JG 3 | KIA 13 February 1942 |
| Alfred Wallys* | Unteroffizier | 5 | JG 51 | KIFA 8 October 1943 |
| Adolf Walter* | Oberfeldwebel | 5 | JG 52 | MIA 1 September 1941 |
| Albert Walter* | Oberleutnant | 37/35 | JG 51 | German Cross KIA 13 July 1944 |
| Albert Walter* | Oberleutnant | 10 | NJG 4, NJG 6 | KIA 24 February 1944 |
| Gustav Walter* | Feldwebel | 7 | JG 54 | KIA 16 April 1942 |
| Clemens Walterscheid* | Leutnant | 8 | JG 2 | KIA 2 July 1943 |
| Horst Walther | Oberleutnant | 35/34 | JG 51 | German Cross |
| Rudolf Walther | Leutnant | 22+ | JG 52 | |
| Albrecht Walz* | Oberleutnant | 26 | JG 3 | German Cross KIA 11 April 1943 |
| Siegfried Wandam* | Oberleutnant | 14 | NJG 1, NJG 5 | KIA 4 July 1943 |
| Joachim Wandel* | Hauptmann | 75 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross KIA 7 October 1942 |
| Rudi Wangner* | Hauptmann | 5 | ZG 1 | KIA 27 June 1944 |
| Alfred Warrelmann | Feldwebel | 6 | ZG 1, NJG 3, NJG 2 | |
| Erich Wassermann* | Feldwebel | 7 | JG 27 | KIA 22 December 1941 |
| Joachim Weber* | Leutnant | 11 | ZG 26, JG 7 | KIA 21 March 1945 |
| Karl-Heinz Weber* | Hauptmann | 136/132 | JG 51, JG 1 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 7 June 1944 mission-to-claim ratio of 3.68. |
| Karl-Heinz Weber* | Unteroffizier | 31 | JG 51 | KIFA 22 September 1943 |
| Hermann Weeber | Hauptmann | 5 | ZG 76 | |
| Heinrich Wefers* | Oberfeldwebel | 51 | JG 54 | German Cross KIA 18 May 1943 |
| Günther Wegmann | Oberleutnant | 14 | ZG 26, EKdo 262, JG 7 | German Cross |
| Alfred Wehmeyer* | Oberleutnant | 18 | ZG 26 | Knight's Cross KIA 1 June 1942 |
| Herbert Wehnelt | Hauptmann | 25 | JG 20, JG 51, EJGr West | German Cross |
| Joachim von Wehren | Oberleutnant | 9 | JG 77 | |
| Josef Weichmann | Feldwebel | 5 | JG 4 | |
| Bruno Weidlich | Feldwebel | 30 | JG 77 | German Cross |
| Kurt Weigand* | Feldwebel | 7 | JG 300 | KIA 24 August 1944 |
| Hans-Dieter Weihs | Leutnant | 8 | JG 7 | |
| Hans Weik | Hauptmann | 36 | JG 3, EJGr Ost, EJG 2 | Knight's Cross mission-to-claim ratio of 2.78. |
| Leoplod Weinberger* | Unteroffizier | 5 | NJG 4 | KIA 28 April 1944 |
| Emil Weinmann | Feldwebel | 10 | NJG 6 | |
| Walter Weinzierl* | Gefreiter | 5 | JG 302 | KIA 28 July 1944 |
| Gustav Weippert | Oberfeldwebel | 7+ | NAG 4 | Knight's Cross |
| Ernst Weismann* | Oberleutnant | 69 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross MIA 13 August 1942 mission-to-claim ratio of 3.74. |
| Robert "Bazi" Weiss* | Hauptmann | 121/122 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 29 December 1944 |
| Theodor "Theo" Weissenberger | Major | 208 | JG 5, JG 7 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves mission-to-claim ratio of 2.40. |
| Paul-Adolf Weitzberg* | Leutnant | 5 | JG 5, JG 4 | KIA 2 November 1944 |
| Hugo Welsch* | Feldwebel | 28 | JG 54 | KIA 29 October 1944 |
| Kurt Welter | Oberleutnant | 63 | JG 300, NJGr 10, NJG 11 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Rupert Weninger* | Oberleutnant | 11 | JG 53 | KIA 24 June 1944 |
| Hans-Gerd Wennekers | Oberfeldwebel | 11 | JG 11 | |
| Eberhard Wenninger* | Leutnant | 8 | JG 51 | KIA 16 April 1944 |
| Werner Wenzel | Hauptmann | 8 | JG 27, JG 3, JG 7 | |
| Peter Werfft, Dr. | Major | 26 | JG 27 | Knight's Cross |
| Adolf Wermter | Gefreiter | 11+ | JG 54 | |
| Horst Wernecke* | Unteroffizier | 5 | JG 51, JG 302 | KIA 29 July 1944 |
| Otto Werner* | Hauptmann | 10 | JG 2 | KIA 17 March 1943 |
| Otto Werner | Unteroffizier | 15 | NAG 4, JG 77 | |
| Heinz Wernicke* | Leutnant | 117/118 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross KIFA 27 December 1944 |
| Ulrich Wernitz | Leutnant | 101 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross mission-to-claim ratio of 2.38. |
| Franz von Werra* | Hauptmann | 21 | JG 3, JG 53 | Knight's Cross KIFA 25 October 1941 |
| Johannes Werth | Hauptmann | 8 | NJG 2 | |
| Johann Werthner | Feldwebel | 7 | NJG 2, NJG 3 | |
| Otto Weßling* | Oberleutnant | 83 | JG 3 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 19 April 1944 |
| Helmut Wester* | Oberleutnant | 10 | JG 52 | KIA 17 August 1944 |
| Josef Westner* | Leutnant | 6 | JG 51 | KIA 10 August 1943 |
| Hans-Jürgen Westphal | Hauptmann | 13 | JG 26, EJGr West, JG 53, JG 106 | |
| Helmut Wettstein | Hauptmann | 20+ | JG 54, JGr Ost | |
| Walther Wever* | Oberleutnant | 44 | JG 51, JG 7 | Knight's Cross KIFA 10 April 1945 |
| Hubert-York Weydenhammer* | Hauptmann | 6 | LG 1, JG 3 | KIA 25 December 1944 |
| Gerhard Weyl | Oberleutnant | 8+ | JG 5, JG 6 | |
| Helmut Wichmann | Feldwebel | 5 | JG 3 | |
| Helmut Wick* | Major | 56 | JG 2 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves MIA 28 November 1940 |
| Karl Wick | Oberfeldwebel | 7+ | JG 54, JG 11 | |
| Bruno Wickert | Feldwebel | 5 | JG 52 | |
| Fritz-Dietrich Wickop* | Hauptmann | 12 | JG 52, JG 2, JG 1 | KIA 16 May 1943 |
| Wulf-Dietrich Widowitz* | Oberleutnant | 29 | ZG 76, JG 77, JG 5 | German Cross KIA 28 July 1943 |
| Gerhard Wiegand | Leutnant | 25 | JG 26 | German Cross |
| Heinrich-Friedrich Wiegand | Feldwebel | 9 | JG 5 | |
| Werner Wiegand* | Feldwebel | 6 | JG 1 | KIA 29 March 1944 |
| Edmund Wieland | Feldwebel | 7 | JG 27 | |
| Paul Wielebinski* | Feldwebel | 5 | JG 3 | DOW 25 June 1944 |
| Franz-Josef Wienhusen* | Hauptmann | 6 | JG 5, JG 77, EJGr Ost, JG 4 | KIA 3 December 1944 |
| Johannes Wiese | Major | 133/118 | JG 52, JG 77 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves 12 in one mission |
| Reinhard Wiese* | Unteroffizier | 9 | JG 3 | KIA 29 October 1942 |
| Wilhelm Wiesinger* | Oberleutnant | 10 | JG 27 | KIA 23 June 1941 |
| Gustav Wiesmahr* | Leutnant | 20 | JG 52 | KIFA 5 October 1943 |
| Ernst Wiggers* | Hauptmann | 9 | JG 51 | KIA 11 September 1940 |
| Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke* | Oberst | 162/155 | JG 53, JG 3 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords KIA 23 March 1944 |
| Karl-Heinz Wilke | Oberleutnant | 8 | NAG 4 | Knight's Cross |
| Gerhard Wille | Feldwebel | 13 | JG 51 | MIA 10 February 1942 |
| Egbert Willenbrink | Unteroffizier | 7 | JG 53 | |
| Dieter Willers | Unteroffizier | 11 | JG 51 | |
| Karl Willius* | Oberleutnant | 50 | JG 26 | Knight's Cross KIA 8 April 1944 |
| Alexander von Winterfelt* | Oberstleutnant | 13 | JG 2, JG 77 | Knight's Cross KIFA 16 May 1942 |
| Eugen Wintergerst* | Oberfeldwebel | 8 | JG 77, JG 1 | KIA 4 September 1943 |
| Hermann Wischnewski | Oberfähnrich | 28 | JG 300 | Knight's Cross |
| Heinrich Wohlers* | Major | 29 | NJG 4, NJG 6 | Knight's Cross KIFA 15 March 1944 |
| Ulrich Wöhnert | Leutnant | 86 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross |
| Franz Woidich | Oberleutnant | 110/81 | JG 27, JG 52, JG 400 | Knight's Cross |
| Erich Woitke | Hauptmann | 26 (+4 in Spain) | J/88, JG 3, JG 52, JG 77, JG 27, JG 11, JG 300, JG 1 | German Cross in Gold |
| Albin Wolf* | Oberleutnant | 144/142 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves KIA 22 April 1944 |
| Hermann Wolf | Leutnant | 57/55 | JG 52, JG 11, JG 7 | Knight's Cross |
| Robert Wolf | Leutnant | 33 | NJG 5 | |
| Walter Wolfrum | Oberleutnant | 137/134 | JG 52 | Knight's Cross mission-to-claim ratio of 3.09. |
| Helmut Woltersdorf* | Oberleutnant | 23 | NJG 1 | German Cross KIA 2 June 1942 |
| Waldemar Wübke | Hauptmann | 14 | JG 54, JG 101 | German Cross |
| Helmut Wunderlich | Obergefreiter | 7 | JG 77 | |
| Horst Wunderlich* | Leutnant | 13 | JG 51 | KIA 30 November 1942 |
| Karl Wünsch* | Leutnant | 22/20 | JG 27 | German Cross MIA 21 November 1944 |
| Karl Wunschelmeyer* | Oberleutnant | 16 | JG 54, JG 26 | KIA 24 February 1944 |
| Otto Würfel* | Leutnant | 79/77 | JG 51 | Knight's Cross MIA 23 February 1944 |
| Heinz Wurm* | Oberleutnant | 12 | ZG 1 | KIA 16 September 1943 |
| Josef "Sepp" Wurmheller* | Major | 102/103 | JG 53, JG 2 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords KIA 22 June 1944 |
| Wilhelm Würtz | Unteroffizier | 6 | JG 54, JG 26 | |
| Heinrich Wurzel | Hauptmann | 12 | JG 302, JG 301 | German Cross |

### Z

| Name | Rank | Claims | Unit | Notes |
| Hans Zacher* | Feldwebel | 6 | JG 51 | KIA 17 October 1944 |
| Friedrich Zander* | Oberfeldwebel | 34 | JG 54, JG 1 | incl. 1 heavy bomber KIA 26 December 1944 |
| Ernst Zechlin | Hauptmann | 10/8 | NJG 2, NJG 5 | |
| Karl-Ludwig Zeddies* | Feldwebel | 7 | JG 51 | KIA 26 March 1943 |
| Otmar Zehart* | Oberleutnant | 6 | Sturmstaffel 1, JG 3, JG 4 | incl. 6 heavy bombers KIA 26 December 1944 |
| Josef Zeiner* | Fähnrich | 5 | JG 3 | incl. 5 heavy bombers KIA 3 March 1945 |
| Alfred Zeis | Leutnant | 53 | JG 53 | |
| Joachim Zeller | Fahnenjunker-Feldwebel | 6 | JG 26 | |
| Walter Zellot* | Leutnant | 85/84 | JG 53 | Knight's Cross KIA 10 September 1942 mission-to-claim ratio of 3.48. |
| Ulrich Zemper* | Feldwebel | 6 | JG 53 | KIA 28 July 1944 |
| Emil Zibler* | Feldwebel | 35 | JG 3 | KIA 5 July 1943 |
| Siegfried Zick | Leutnant | 20 | JG 1, JG 11 | |
| Kurt Ziegenfuss* | Feldwebel | 6 | JG 51 | KIA 22 April 1944 |
| Helmut Ziegenhagen | Oberleutnant | 15 | JG 76, JG 5, JG 54, JG 11 | |
| Helmut Ziehm* | Oberleutnant | 20 | JG 51 | KIA 9 April 1945 |
| Kurt Ziemann* | Oberfeldwebel | 6+ | SG 4 | KIA 23 January 1945 |
| Heinz Ziemer | Feldwebel | 6 | JG 11 | |
| Helmut Zilken* | Oberleutnant | 12 | JG 54 | KIA 16 March 1942 |
| Horst Ziller | Oberfeldwebel | 8 | JG 27 | |
| Günther Zilling* | Oberfähnrich | 6 | JG 54 | KIA 2 August 1944 |
| Herbert Zimmer* | Feldwebel | 20 | JG 3 | incl. 1 heavy bomber KIA 20 March 1944 |
| Claus Zimmermann* | Leutnant | 7 | JG 52 | KIA 29 July 1942 |
| Hans-Jörg Zimmermann* | Oberleutnant | 6 | JG 52 | KIA 1 September 1941 |
| Oskar Zimmermann | Leutnant | 34/28+ | JG 51, JG 3 | Knight's Cross |
| Dieter Zink | Leutnant | 11 | JG 3 | incl. 10 heavy bombers |
| Füllbert Zink* | Hauptmann | 36 | JG 26 | German Cross KIA 14 March 1943 |
| Igor Zirkenbach* | Leutnant | 7/6 | JG 27 | KIA 8 August 1940 |
| Josef Zirngibl* | Oberfeldwebel | 9 | JG 26 | incl. 3 heavy bombers KIA 21 June 1944 |
| Paul Zorner | Major | 59/58 | NJG 2, NJG 3, NJG 100, NJG 5 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves |
| Franz-Josef Zoufahl* | Oberfeldwebel | 26 | JG 51 | German Cross KIA 24 July 1944 |
| Gerhard Zschäbitz | Feldwebel | 12 | JG 52 | |
| Herwig Zusig* | Oberleutnant | 12 | JG 77, JG 1 | KIA 19 August 1943 |
| Eugen-Ludwig Zweigart* | Oberleutnant | 69/66 | JG 54 | Knight's Cross KIA 12 January 1943 |
| Josef Zwernemann* | Hauptmann | 126/123 | JG 52, JG 11 | Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves incl. 5 heavy bombers KIA 8 April 1944 |
| Rudi Zwesken | Oberfeldwebel | 45~/23+ | JG 52, JG 300 | incl. 14+ heavy bombers Knight's Cross |
| Ludwig Zwittnig* | Oberleutnant | 6 | JG 3 | incl. 2 heavy bombers KIA 18 April 1945 |