Wolfgang Hager (born 1887) was a Generalleutnant of Nazi Germany during World War II.
Biography[]
Wolfgang Hager was born in 1887, and he served in World War I as a pilot in the Imperial German Air Force. Under Nazi Germany, he rose in the ranks of the Luftwaffe - Adolf Hitler's air force - and fought in World War II on the front lines. Hager fought on the Russian front with the Soviet Union in 1941, but he was berated by his comrade Josef Priller as a "rotten pilot". Hager was given command of Luftwaffe Kommando West, and he unwisely deployed all but two planes away from Normandy at the time of D-Day in June 1944, leaving only Priller and Bernhard Bergsdorf at the Lille Airfield to fly missions against Allied troops landing at Omaha Beach.