A list printed in the Berliner Zeitung am Mittag on April 24 showed
that of the forty-one German aviators who had brought down fifteen or
more opponents since the beginning of the war, nineteen had fallen in
action and two had been reported missing. The list of the fallen German
fliers, together with the alleged number of their victims and the year
of their death, follows:
Captain von Richthofen 80 1918
Lieutenant Boss 50 1917
Captain Bölcke 40 1916
Lieutenant Gontermann 39 1917
Lieutenant Max Müller 38 1918
Lieutenant Kurt Wolff 34 1917
Lieutenant Schaefer 30 1917
Lieutenant Allmenroeder 30 1917
First Lieut. von Tutschek 27 1918
Lieutenant Böhme 24 1917
First Lieut. Bethge 20 1918
Lieutenant von Eschwege 20 1917
Lieutenant Frankl 19 1917
Lieutenant Wintgens 18 1916
Lieutenant Baldamus 18 1917
Lieutenant Hess 17 1917
First Lieut. Immelmann 15 1916
Lieutenant Dossenbach 15 1917
Lieutenant Schneider 15 1917
Lieutenant von Bülow, with twenty-eight victims, and First Lieutenant
Dostler, with twenty-six, were reported missing.
At the beginning of the offensive in March, Germany claimed 102 army
aviators, each of whom had brought down more than seven airplanes or
balloons in battles, and that the total number of victims up to May
of these star fliers was 1,698. In this period forty-three of these
aces had been killed and three were missing. Others probably had been
disabled and were no longer in service. Of those still alive, whether
still in the service or not, the ones with the best records were then
Lieutenant Bongartz with thirty-three victories, Lieutenant Bucker also
with thirty-three, and Lieutenant von Richthofen, brother of the dead
ace, with twenty-nine.