Arthur Laumann was a German World War I flying ace who scored 28 victories in just over three months.
He rose to become Air Attache to Greece and Yugoslavia during World War II, raising to a final rank of Luftwaffe Generalmajor.
He was promoted to Gefreiter (Private first class) on 15 February 1915, and to Unteroffizier (Noncommissioned officer) on 1 August 1915.
Eight days after joining Jagdstaffel 66, on 27 May 1918, he scored his first triumph in the same dogfight in which his commanding officer, Rudolf Windisch, was shot down and disappeared.
The Pour le Merite, or Blue Max, followed on 25 October, and was the final one awarded to any member of JG I.
After the armistice, he was transferred to the Signals Battalion of Military District Command VI until August 1919.
This led to his entry into the Luftwaffe as a Major on 1 April 1935 as commander of Air Region Reserve 12 in Cologne.