Fritz Morzik

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Fritz Morzik (December 10, 1891 - June 17, 1985) was a German aviator and commander of Germany's World War II transport aviation.

He trained as a pilot and served in the World War I. 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 airlines.

Fritz Morzik was also an active sports pilot. He was a winner in the first International Tourist Plane Contest Challenge and the second Challenge in 1930. 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.

In 1935 he started service in the German Air Force (Luftwaffe), as a commandant of pilots' school. In the World War II 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).