Hugo Sperrle

Wilhelm Hugo Sperrle, also known as Hugo Sperrle, was a German military aviator in World War I and a Generalfeldmarschall in the Luftwaffe during World War II. Sperrle joined the Imperial German Army in 1903. He served in the artillery upon the outbreak of World War I.

Hugo Sperrle Media

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  Sperrle, with Wolfram von Richthofen, in Spain, 1936

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  • For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme.
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  Sperrle (right), with staff officers in France

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  Fall Rot—Sperrle commanded his air fleet from western Germany to the Atlantic coast

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  British radar coverage, 1940, extended to the French coast and inland to Normandy and Brittany where Sperrle's air fleet was based

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  Coventry Blitz. The medieval Holy Trinity Church is visible

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  Sperrle, February 1942. During the month his air fleet aided the escape of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen

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  Sperrle visiting a fighter control room, 21 June 1944

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  Sperrle during the High Command Trial in Nuremberg, 1948