Alexander Löhr
| Alexander Löhr | |
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Alexander Löhr in October 1939
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| Born |
20 May 1885 Turnu-Severin, Mehedinți, Kingdom of Romania |
| Died | 26 February 1947 (aged 61) Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Allegiance |
 Austria-Hungary (to 1918) First Austrian Republic (to 1938) Nazi Germany
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| Service/branch |
.svg){kind=small} Austro-Hungarian ArmyAustrian Bundesheer Austrian Air Force (1927–38) Luftwaffe (1938–45) |
| Years of service | 1906–45 |
| Rank | Generaloberst |
| Commands held |
Luftflotte 4 Heeresgruppe E |
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| Awards | Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves |
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Alexander Löhr (20 May 1885 – 26 February 1947) was an Austrian Air Force (Österreichische Luftstreitkräfte) commander during the 1930s and, after the annexation of Austria" (Anschluss), he was a German Air Force (Luftwaffe) commander. Löhr served in the Luftwaffe during the Second World War. Löhr was one of three former Austrians who rose to the rank of Generaloberst (Colonel General) within the German Wehrmacht. The other two were Erhard Raus and Lothar Rendulic.
Löhr surrendered to Yugoslav Partisan forces in May 1945 and was imprisoned till February 1947. He was tried and found guilty of war crimes for his role as the commander of the Luftwaffe units involved in the Bombing of Belgrade in 1941 and his role in war crimes as commander in chief in Southeast Europe. He was executed on 26 February 1947.
Löhr was born on 20 May 1885 in Turnu-Severin in the Kingdom of Romania. He was the youngest child of Friedrich Johann Löhr and his wife Catherine, née Heimann. His father had served as a 2nd captain on a hospital ship in the Black Sea during the Russo-Turkish War. Here his father had met his mother, a Jewish-Ukrainian nurse. She was the daughter of the Jewish military doctor Mihail Alexandrovich Heimann from Odessa. After the war, they married in 1879 and moved to the Turnu-Severin in Romania. The marriage produced three sons, Friedrich born in 1880, Michael born in 1882, and Alexander in 1885. Due to his mother faith he belonged to the Eastern Orthodox Church. Löhr, just like his brothers, attended the reichsdeutsche (Imperial German) Evangelic Volksschule (primary school) in Turnu-Severin.
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