F. K. Müller's uniform.............

[François SAEZ]

The tunic belong to a collector of this forum known as F. K. Müller.


About Müller (the pilot):
Born on December 4 1911 in Sulzbach/Saar. Ritterkreuz on July 27, 1944 in the rank of Hauptmann with 22 Night victories.
As an old "Lufthansa" man he originally was employed as a bomber and transport pilot. In the summer of 1943 Hajo Herrmann chose him as blind flying instructor for his night fighter test unit because of his night flying experience. On July 4, 1943 he achieved his first victory with the single-engiened fighters of the "wilde Sau" (Wild Boar). He then became Technical Officer of the JG 300, became Staffelkapitaen 1./NG 10 in GFebruary 1944, Kommandeur I./NJG11 in November 1944. "Nasen-Mueller" was the most successful single-engined night fighter pilot. On August 24, 1943 he achieved three victories over Berlin. Total of 52 missions as a night fighter, 30 night victories, 23 of them with the "Wilde Sau" unit.

I will let Müller (the collector) to comment

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[Strider]

Maybe I miss understand but is tunic supposed to be the same one as in the photograph? As is appears to be different to me, especially the insignia - is positioned differently and a different eagle.

Could it have belonged to this F.K. Müller?

http://www.luftwaffe.cz/mullerfk.html


Lee
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[F.K.Müller]

Hi Strider:
First thank to Francois saez to have included my pics.
On the other hand, you are right, the tunic is not the same of the photo, is another of the Muller´´s tunics and is not belonging to tutti Muller, he never was awraded with the GC.
This is a little story:
This tunic was bought by Weitze to a house cleaner that found it in a apartment in Uberlingen, at the south of Germany. He sold to a Norweggian collector who bought to WEitze in the middle of 80. I was lucky that this norweggian collector only collect now SS items and he sold to P. Luckas, to him I have bought it. I was looking for more info, even I have the certificate of authenticity from WEitze of the 80 years and i contacted with a person who knew him...in Uberlingen!!!!!so that I am sure that the tunic is from Muller.

[Strider]

Hi F.K.,

Well it's a lovely looking tunic and a fascinating story about its history. I'm just starting out collecting LW uniforms, got my first flight blouse arriving shortly and working on getting an overseas cap to go with it.

Hopefully when I've saved up some pennies I can obtain a similar tunic to yours!

Thanks for sharing pictures of it. I'm beginning my studies about LW uniforms so seeing an original example like yours helps me very much indeed.


Lee
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[Ian Jewison]

Hi F.K.

Originally posted by F.K.Müller
On the other hand, you are right, the tunic is not the same of the photo, is another of the Muller´´s tunics and is not belonging to tutti Muller, he never was awraded with the GC.

There were two F.K. Müller's with the Deutsches Kreus in Gold.

Hauptmann Friedrich-Karl Müller. Stab/HG 300 25.11.1943.
Major Friedrich-Karl Müller. I/JG 53 15.11.1943.

"Tutti" was a DK holder, if it is his jacket then it obviously is an old one as he ended up as Oberstleutnant....incidentally this rank was posthumous!The other F.K ended the was as a Major.......

/Ian

[F.K.Müller]

Hi Strider:
Thanks for your words. In the book GErman night fighter aces volume II from Schiffer publishing, which author is Nernd Dieter Barbas you can find more photos of Muller, even in the 80 years in a meeting with the crew of a Lancaster bomber that he destroyed. By the way, Bernd was the person who knew Muller and wrote me about him

Hi Ian:
Sorry for my disknowledge. I really ignore that Tutti Muller was also a DK holder. Anyway, my tunic belongs to Nassenmuller, as expressed in the story of the origin that I have written below. It is true that Nassen Muller ended the war as Major...this is one of his hauptmann tunics.
Thanks for your info!!!!!
F.K.

[F.K.Müller]

Strider, I also have just bought a fliegerblouse of a pilot with the cloth pilot badge attches and the AFRIKA cuff title. I hope to be a association member soon and be able of show it!!
F.K.

[F.K.Müller]

Certainly, when I bought the tunic I had the same doubt when I saw the photo. My tunic was not the same than the tunic of the photo. This was the reason why I began a research about Muller. I contacted with Weitze, and after the years he remembered the tunic and that he bought it to a house cleaner...I have a copy of the certificate of authenticity sent to the first buyer, the norweggian collector, wrote by WEitze, but the most important was that he said to me that the house cleaner found it in Uberlingen. I was really lucky of contacting with Dieter Barbas, who said to me in a short message : Yes, I knew Muller!! FRom then I wrote him several messages...where did he live in the last yeras of his life???He answered me that he had a apartment at Uberlingen...

[Ian Jewison]

Heres another photo of Herr Müller. This is taken from Obermaier's book "Die Ritterkreuzträger der Luftwaffe 1939-45. Band I. Jagdflieger".

/Ian

[Strider]

Hi F.K. I'd be interested to see pics of your flight blouse. Mine is a very basic one with the insignia removed unfortunately but I got it very cheaply

You can add pictures to your post without being an Association member if you have some web space. Upload the pictures to your website and then link them to your post using the IMG button.

Your research about the tunic sounds rock solid, it would be great to find a photo of Müller wearing the tunic. He's not wearing any awards in the photo you have. Perhaps he used your tunic on formal occasions with his awards. Maybe a studio photo of him wearing it exists somewhere, like the usual KC holders postcards.

Lee
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