Leutnant Karl Gallwitz was a World War I flying ace

Flying ace

A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...

 credited with ten aerial victories.
Gallwitz originally flew a Roland D.III for artillery cooperation units on the Russian Front, shooting down two observation balloons with FA 37, before a brief assignment to Jasta 29. On 24 August 1917, he joined Jasta Boelcke

Jasta 2

Jasta 2 was one of the best-known German Luftstreitkräfte Squadrons in World War I. It was founded by the great aerial tactician Oswald Boelcke, and was the incubator of several notable aviation careers.-Formation:...

. He scored three times in October; the last one, on the 27th, was over Arthur Rhys-Davids. He started over again in 1918, scoring five more times, including bringing down British aces Robert Kirby Kirkman

Robert Kirby Kirkman

Captain Robert Kirby Kirkman was a World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories. Kirkman and his observer were captured in action after being shot down on 23 March 1918 by German ace Karl Gallwitz...

and John Hedley. Gallwitz finished out his tally of ten on 21 April 1918, and crashed soon thereafter. Once he recuperated from his injuries, he was assigned to Inspekteur der Flieger.