BRIGADIER GENERAL ALBIN HERMAN SCHWEERS

Born in Arcadia, Iowa on March 3, 1922, Albin H. Schweers worked as a clerk-typist in the War Department, Washington, D.C., during 1941 and 1942. He was inducted into U.S. Army Air Forces on November 27, 1942, and attended the Army Air Forces Clerical School at Fort Logan, Colorado. Commissioned after graduating from Officer Candidate School at San Antonio, Texas, he was assigned to the Airways and Air Communications Service (AACS) at Topeka Army Airfield, Kansas, and the Headquarters 70th AACS Group on Guam.

Released from active duty in May 1946, General Schweers joined the Army Air Forces Reserve and served in reserve assignments in AACS and Air Force Reserve civil engineer positions at Richards-Gebaur AFB, Missouri, Headquarters Tenth Air Force. He served as the Air Force Liaison for Disaster Preparedness for the State of Missouri. Honored as the Outstanding Reserve Mobilization Augmentee of the Year for 1973 for his work during eight natural disasters that year, he was assigned to a general officer position as mobilization assistant to the commander of the Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill AFB, Utah, in 1974. He retired as a brigadier general in 1982, on his 60th birthday. After retiring he continued to serve as Admissions Liaison Officer for the U.S. Air Force Academy, a secondary reserve assignment he had held since 1970.

He received Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering at Iowa State University in 1950. He completed by correspondence Squadron Officer School, Air Command and Staff College, Air War College, National Defense College; Civil Engineer, and Staff Engineer, and many other specialized correspondence courses in civil engineering and logistics.

A professional civil engineer, General Schweers worked in a consulting engineering firm on bridges over the Missouri, Mississippi, Potomac, Maumee and Columbia Rivers, and turnpikes in Kansas, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Florida. A Fellow and Life Member in the American Society of Civil Engineers, he retired in 1984 and conducted a private consulting practice until 1990. He served as the Air Force Association State President from Kansas, and on the Air Force Association Nominating Committee.

References:
Air Force Fifty – 50 Years USAF: A Look at the Air Force, Air Force Association and Commemorative Las Vegas Reunion, Turner Publishing Company (1998), p. 177; “Ogden ALC Mobilization Assistant retires,” Hill Top Times, Ogden, Utah, Feb. 26, 1982 (Vol. 36, No. 8), p. 2.