Robert Heibert

Offizierstellvertreter Robert Heibert MMC IC (8 January 1886 – 10 May 1933) was a German flying ace during World War I.

Heibert was a native of Oberfell in the Mosel region, being born there on 26 January 1886.

[2] He enjoyed his first aerial success there, downing a Sopwith northeast of Diksmuide on 20 August 1917.

He ended the war with 13 victories certified;[4][1] some or all of the seven more unconfirmed victories may have failed to gain approval as the German administrative system bogged down in the war's ending days.

[2] After winning both classes of the Iron Cross, Robert Heibert was awarded the highest award for valor available to a German enlisted man, the Military Merit Cross on 5 July 1918.