Werner Mölders' daughter?

[Vik]

From what little I have been able to find out, Werner Mölders' wife was pregnant at the time of his death, therefore he never saw his daughter. Does anyone know anything about her?

[brick2]

Daughters name was Verena
Wifes name was Louise-nee Baldauf-nee Thurner

[Helge]

Funeral of Oberst Werner Mölders

Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, Emma Johanna Henny Göring , Annemarie Riedel the mother of Oberst Mölders, Luise Baldauf, widow of Oberst Mölders

[Helge]

D186 Mölders was a guided missile destroyer of the Bundesmarine (West German Navy) and later the Deutsche Marine (Navy of reunited Germany). It was the second ship of the Lütjens class, a modification of the Charles F. Adams class.

On March 3, 1965 Bath Iron Works got the order to build Mölders and her keel was laid down on April 12, 1966 with the hull number DDG-29. April 13, 1967 Mölders was launched and christened for Luftwaffe Oberst (Colonel) Werner Mölders by his mother Anne-Marie Mölders. Mölders was commissioned on February 23, 1969 into the 1. Zerstörergeschwader (first destroyer squadron) based in Kiel.

During her 33 years in commission 14,000 sailors served on her under 16 commanders, and she traveled 675,054.6 nautical miles. The Mölders was decommissioned May 28, 2003 in Wilhelmshaven.

Unlike her sisters Lütjens (D185) and Rommel (D187), Mölders was preserved and is now on display as museum ship at the Deutsches Marinemuseum at Wilhelmshaven, although she was, ironically, never stationed in Wilhelmshaven during her active career.

[Helge]

The Rommel (D-187), Lütjens (D-185) and Mölders (D-186)

[Helge]

Is my thought: I think the wife Mölders married again after the war: He attended the launching of the destroyer there was the mother of Mölders. The wife and daughter were not present.

Helge

[Dieter Zinke]

Mölders widow, remarried again: Frau Petzold-Mölders.
The name of the daughter: Verena Buchanan.

Present at the ship launching ceremony on 13.04.1968 in Bath / Maine (USA):
Godmother Anna-Maria Mölders, the mother (then 79 years old) of Werner Mölders;
Hans Mölders (older brother) with his wife Eleonore;
Viktor Mölders (younger brother) with his wife Marlis;
and Annemarie Mölders, the sister.

Some pictures of them are in Ernst Obermaier/Werner Held:
"Jagdflieger Oberst Werner Mölders", Motorbuch-Verlag Stuttgart, 1982


Dieter Z.

[Helge]

Mölders widow, remarried again: Frau Petzold-Mölders.
The name of the daughter: Verena Buchanan.

Present at the ship launching ceremony on 13.04.1968 in Bath / Maine (USA):
Godmother Anna-Maria Mölders, the mother (then 79 years old) of Werner Mölders;
Hans Mölders (older brother) with his wife Eleonore;
Viktor Mölders (younger brother) with his wife Marlis;
and Annemarie Mölders, the sister.

Some pictures of them are in Ernst Obermaier/Werner Held:
"Jagdflieger Oberst Werner Mölders", Motorbuch-Verlag Stuttgart, 1982


Dieter Z.

Thanks Dieter: You are great!

Helge

[Helge]

In honor of Oberst Werner Mölders : F-104 Starfighter Flugzeuge, JG 74
Zwölf Jagdflugzeuge F-104 "Starfighter" des Jagdgeschwader 74 "Mölders" nebeneinander auf Startbahn
Reportage Bundeswehr: JG 74 (Jagdgeschwader) Date June 1965

[Helge]

21.April 2011 Louise Petzold-Mölders in Starnberg, died at the age of 98 years.

http://www.jf-archiv.de/archiv11/201119050659.htm
Photo: http://blog.harald-oberhem.net/2011/11/ ... -22111941/

[Helge]

The marriage of Werner Mölders / Luise Baldauf

[Helge]

Luise Petzolt Mölders on his ninetieth birthday.

Photo Source: http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/neu ... 83781.html

[von thoma]

Luise Baldauf and Oberst Werner Mölders.