Werner Panitzki

General Werner Panitzki (27 May 1911 in Kiel – 2 June 2000) was a German Air Force general. He was Inspector of the Air Force, the senior air force appointment, from 1962 to 1966.

On 25 August 1966, the Federal Minister of Defence, Kai-Uwe von Hassel, dismissed Panitzki, at his own request, because Panitzki in an interview had charactarized the procurement of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter fighter aircraft as a "purely political decision".

References

German Air Force - Werner Panitzki (German)

Military offices
Preceded by General Josef Kammhuber	Inspector of the Air Force 1 October 1962 – 25 August 1966	Succeeded by Generalleutnant Johannes Steinhoff

Inspectors of the German Air Force

Josef Kammhuber Werner Panitzki Johannes Steinhoff Günther Rall Gerhard Limberg Friedrich Obleser Eberhard Eimler Horst Jungkurth Jörg Kuebart Bernhard Mende Rolf H. Portz Gerhard W. Back Klaus Peter Stieglitz Aarne Kreuzinger-Janik Karl Müllner

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