The Black Butcher

"The Black Butcher and his wingmen sliced through our squadron like a cleaver, and in moments most of our planes were cut from the skies."

Fritz Bützer the 'Black Butcher' in 

Totenkopf officer's dress

Hauptmann Fritz Bützer is the notorious leader of Jagdstaffel 13, a German fighter squadron with a fearsome reputation. Hauptmann Bützer is known as the Black Butcher to British pilots for his black cleaver insignia and deadly aim, and his Jasta are referred to as the Butcher's Boys. Coming from an aristocratic Prussian family and like Frederick Belmont beginning his military career in the cavalry, the Butcher had a reputation as a cruel and callous disciplinarian long before he joined the Luftstreitkräfte fighter squadrons.