On 3 June 1936, Walther Wever flew from Berlin to Dresden, to give a lecture at
the Luftkriegsakademie to a gathering of Luftwaffe cadets. When Walther Wever
received the news of the passing of a First World War German hero, Walther Wever
at once set off for Berlin. During his return journey, the
Heinkel
He 70 Blitz that he was flying hadn't been properly examined during preflight
checks, and the aileron gust locks were not removed. The aircraft was airborne
when the wing dipped, and the
Heinkel
He 70 stalled and went into a horizontal cartwheel. It crashed and exploded
in flames, killing Walther Wever and his flight engineer.
Ernst
Udet was appointed Director of the Technical Department of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium
(RLM) on 9 June 1936, with responsibility for all new Luftwaffe aircraft. Ernst
Udet department grew to a complex 26 departments and was split with inter-department
rivalries. Ernst
Udet failed to provide a firm leadership and his establishment soon broke
down into chaos, although Ernst
Udet, with no effective deputy and a poor staff seemed more happier when he
was inaccessible visiting aircraft factories and airfields.
U-33
Submarine
Launched 11 June 1936
Tirpitz
Battleship
Ordered 14 June 1936
Adolf
Hitler departed from Venice on 16 June 1936, Italy, returning to Germany.
Heinrich
Himmler was named the head of the first German national police force on 16
June 1936. Prior to this, police forces had always been under the jurisdiction
of local states and not the national government.
On 24 June 1936, Wehrmacht
General Werner
von Blomberg drew up Case Green as a hypothetical campaign against Czechoslovakia.
The first prototype, of the
Focke-Wulf
Fw 61, had its first free flight on 26 June 1936 with Ewald Rohlfs at the
controls.
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