Leutnant Werner Preuss (21 September 1894 – 6 March 1919), Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross, was a World War I fighter ace credited with 22 victories.
On the 26th, he was sent to the Western Front via a short stopover in Courland, as an infantry cooperation pilot flying reconnaissance.
[2] With his twentieth victory, he qualified for Germany's highest decoration for valor, the Prussian Pour le Mérite.
One of the extant photographs, a formal portrait, shows him wearing a Blue Max.
A number of nominees lost out on their award when the Kaiser resigned on 9 November, but his name is not recorded among them.
[2][5] Upon the armistice ending the war, Preuss led his squadron to Lübeck.
On 6 March, he was killed in an air crash near the site of his alma mater, Rendsburg.