Awards
- Spanish Medalla Militar
- Spanish Cross in Silver with Swords
- Wound Badge in Black
- Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe in Gold with Pennant "1000"
- Combined Pilots-Observation Badge
- Iron Cross (1939)
- 2nd Class (26 September 1939)
- 1st Class (4 July 1940)
- Ehrenpokal der Luftwaffe (12 June 1941)
- German Cross in Gold on 9 April 1942 as Hauptmann in the I./JG 77
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
- Knight's Cross on 13 September 1940 as Oberleutnant and pilot in the I./JG 77
- 16th Oak Leaves on 27 June 1941 as Hauptmann and Gruppenkommandeur of the I./JG 77
- 9th Swords on 24 April 1942 as Hauptmann and Gruppenkommandeur of the I./JG 77
- Mentioned six times in the Wehrmachtbericht
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