Leutnant Richard Wenzl was a German World War I flying ace credited with twelve aerial victories.

[2] He began a five-month scoring streak on 5 June, running his total to 11 destroyed enemy aircraft and an observation balloon on 5 November 1918.

[2] In the early Autumn of 1918, Wenzl met Ernst Jünger while in an infirmary in Hanover.

Jünger described Wenzl as "one of the tall and fearless types our nation still produces.

and had already brought down a dozen opponents in single combat, although the last had splintered his upper arm with a bullet first.