Career
The Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik was captured in May 1945 by American troops and was held until 1947. He trained as a pilot and served in After the war he was an instructor in Communication Pilots School in Brunswick.
In 1928 he became a vicedirector of Communication Pilots School in Berlin, then its director
He was connected with Lufthansa, the German national airline at that time. Fritz Morzik was also an active sports pilot.
In the third Challenge in 1932 he was second. He took part in the fourth Challenge in 1934, but did not finish it due to engine breakdown.
He was the only pilot to participate in all Challenges.
I In 1935 he started service in the German Air Force (Luftwaffe), as a commandant of pilots" school. In I he became a head of Luftwaffe Transport Command, in a rank of Generalmajor. After the war he wrote a detailed story of German transport aviation during the war: Die deutschen Transportflieger im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Frankfurt am Main, 1966) and German Air Force Airlift Operations (New York: Arno Press, 1968).
Iron Cross (1914) Bibliography.