Max Näther

Max Näther

Max Näther was a German World War I ace fighter pilot. He shot down 10 observation balloons and 16 airplanes, including 10 SPAD S. XIII fighters. He died in action at the border of Germany and Poland after the war’s end.

About Max Näther in brief

Summary Max NätherMax Näther was a German World War I ace fighter pilot. He shot down 10 observation balloons and 16 airplanes, including 10 SPAD S. XIII fighters and a Sopwith Dolphin. He died in action at the border of Germany and Poland after the war’s end on 8 January 1919. He flew an all black Albatros D. Va with a personal insignia of a German national flag streaming from a slanted staff imposed on a white square painted on the side of the plane’s fuselage just aft of the cockpit.

He was born on 24 August 1899 in Tepliwoda, Silesia, in what was then the eastern part of the Kingdom of Prussia and is now Poland.