German Ace Questions: I-J-K

[Frank_Olynyk]

Posts in this series:

A-B: 13 posts, which I will re-edit into a single post (someday)
Blume to von Busse
C-D-E
F-G
H
I-J-K
L-M
N-O-P-Q
R
S
T-V-W-Z

It's a twofer night! Shall we make it three?

99 - Fritz-John Jacobsen
Fritz-John Jacobsen was credited with 5 victories with Jasta 31 and Jasta 73. I have no information on his place of birth.

100 - Johannes Janzen
Johannes Janzen is credited with 13 victories with Jasta 23, Jasta 4 and Jasta 6. I have no information on his date and place of death, other than it was apparently in the 1980s.

101 - Ludwig Jeckert
Ludwig Jeckert is credited with 4 victories with Jasta 56. I have no information on his date or place of birth or death.

102 - Johannes Jensen
Johannes Jensen is credited with 6 victories with Jasta 57. I have no information on his place of birth, nor on his date and place of death.

103 - Reinhold Jörke
Reinhold Jörke is credited with 13 victories with Jasta 12, Jasta 13 and Jasta 39. I have no information on his date and place of birth or death.

104 - Martin Johns
Martin Johns is credited with 7 victories with Jasta 63. I have no information on his place of birth, nor on his date and place of death.

105 - August Jühe
August Jühe is credited with 4 victories with Jasta 8. I have no information on his place of birth, nor on his date and place of death.

106 - Hermann Juhnke
Hermann Juhnke is credited with 5 victories with Jasta 52. I have no information on his date and place of death.

107 - Erich Just
Erich Just is credited with 6 victories with Jasta 11. I have no information on his place of birth, nor on his date and place of death, other than he might have been born in 1898.

108 - Fritz Kämpf
Fritz Kämpf is credited with 4 victories, but his unit is unknown, and I have no information on his victories; presumably he was a member of one of the 3-4 units that Tornuss did not record. Not surprisingly I have no information on his date and place of birth or death. [This now appears to be an error for Fritz Kempf, below]

109 - Willy Kahle
Willy Kahle is credited with 6 victories with Jasta 27. I am uncertain of the spelling of his birthplace (Tarff/Sans), and I have no information on his date and place of death.

110 - Max Kahlow
Max Kahlow is credited with 7 victories with Fla 42 and Jasta 34. I have no information on his date and place of death.

111 - Friedrich Paul Kempf
Fritz Kempf is credited with 4 victories with Jasta 2. I have no information on his place of death, and only August 1966 as his date of death.

112 - Alfred King
Alfred King is credited with 4 victories with Kagohl 5/25 and Jasta 40. Supposedly he was killed in a flying accident. Can anyone confirm this, and supply the type of aircraft flown, and its serial number or registration.

113 - Franz Kirchfeld
Franz Kirchfeld is credited with 7 victories with Jasta 73. I have no information on his date and place of birth or death.

114 - Gustav Klaudat
Gustav Klaudat is credited with 6 victories with Jasta 15. I have no information on his date and place of birth or death.

115 - Johannes Klein
Johannes Klein is credited with 15 victories with Jasta 18 and 15 (thanks Rick). I have no information on his date and place of birth or death, other than he might have died in 1926.

116 - Rudolf Klimke
Rudolf Klimke is credited with 16 victories with Ffla 55, Kagohl 3/17 and Jasta 27. I have no information on his date and place of death. A very interesting career: one victory in Russia as pilot of an Albatros C.I; one over London as pilot of a Gotha G.IV (same observer!), and the rest in France flying the Albatros D.III/D.V and Fokker D.VII.

117 - Herbert Wilhelm Franz Knappe
Herbert Knappe is credited with 9 victories with Ffla 21 and Jasta 81. He was killed in a flying accident. Does anyone know the type of aircraft, and serial number or registration?

118 - Emil Koch
Emil Koch is credited with 7 victories with Jasta 32. I do not know his place of death.

119 - Otto Könnecke
Otto Könnecke is credited with 34 victories with Jasta 25 and 5. I do not know his place of death.

120 - Hans Körner
Hans Körner is credited with 6 victories with Jasta 8 and 19. I have no information on his date and place of birth or death, other than that he was killed in a motorcycle accident.

121 - Johann Kopka
Johann Kopka is credited with 5 victories with Fla(A) 262 and Jasta 61. I have no information on his date and place of birth or death.

122 - Arthur Korff
Arthur Korff is credited with 8 victories with Jasta 60. I have no information on his date and place of death.

123 - Heinrich Kramer
Heinrich Kramer is credited with 4 victories with Jasta 14, 9 and 13. I have no information on his date and place of birth or death.

124 - Georg Kröhl
Georg Kröhl is credited with 4 victories with Jasta 34. He was killed in a flying accident. Does anyone know the type of aircraft, and its serial number or registration?

125 - Kurt Küppers
Kurt Küppers is credited with 6 victories with Jasta 6 and 48. Supposedly born in 1894, I have no information on his place of birth or death.

126 - Max Kuhn
Max Kuhn is credited with 12 victories with Jasta 21. I have no information on his date and place of birth or death, other than he supposedly died in 1920.

127 - Hermann Karl Ludwig Kunz
Hermann Kunz is credited with 5 victories with Jasta 7 and 1F (55). I have no information on his date and place of birth or death.

128 - Karl Kutschke
Karl Kutschke is credited with 4 victories with V. MFJ. I have no information on his date and place of birth or death.

129 - Walter Kypke
Walter Kypke is credited with 9 victories with Ffla 67, Jasta 14 and 41, Kest 5 and Jasta 47. He was killed in a flying accident; does anyone know the type of aircraft and its serial number or registration?

Does anyone have answers to these questions?

Frank.

[rammjaeger]

Dr.-Ing. Alfred King died on 29. January 1931.
The announcement of his death (in the Ferko-Collection) says he died in a flight accident. No aircraft type or serial number mentioned there.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Frank_Olynyk

Fritz Kämpf is credited with 4 victories, but his unit is unknown, and I have no information on his victories; presumably he was a member of one of the 3-4 units that Tornuss did not record. Not surprisingly I have no information on his date and place of birth or death.

Frank, is this a mis-spelling of Kempf (Jasta 2)? R.

[Reinout]

Hi Rick,

Frank, is this a mis-spelling of Kempf (Jasta 2)? R.

Even though I am not Frank, the answer is no. Frank listed Friedrich Kempf (the Jasta B flyer) later on as well.
It reads: "111- Friedrich Paul Kempf
Fritz Kempf is credited with 4 victories with Jasta 2. I have no information on his place of death, and only August 1966 as his date of death."

Kind regards,

Reinout

[Frank_Olynyk]

Rick,
I think it must be, given the lack of information on Kämpf, and the fact that I do have four victories for Kempf. Fritz Kämpf is the way the name appears in the 1919 Flugsport list, and I haven't checked my files to find those with four victories and compare it to the Flugsport list.

Rammjaeger,
Thanks for the verification. I would have to guess, and it is only a guess, that as a Dr.-Ing. he was testing an aircraft of his own design. I suppose to check that it would be necessary to locate a contemporary article on his death.

Many thanks to both.

Frank.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Frank_Olynyk

Rick,
I think it must be, given the lack of information on Kämpf, and the fact that I do have four victories for Kempf. Fritz Kämpf is the way the name appears in the 1919 Flugsport list, and I haven't checked my files to find those with four victories and compare it to the Flugsport list.

Yes, I noticed that, but only as it was re-printed in C&C 3,3. And there the author has added "Jasta 2". I'm inclined to think that these are one and the same man, and that the name was merely spelled wrong. R.

[Hal Oele]

OK Frank,
here are some infos for you ...

Dr. Ing. Alfred King crashed as a Test-Pilot for Heinkel in Warnemünde.
His plane was a Heinkel HD 38.

Max Kahlow (*11.05.1894 Bad Schönfließ)
Fliegertruppe since 10.1913.
20s & 30s Lufthansa Flugkapitän

Johannes Jensen (*29.05.1891)
1934 Hauptmann der Luftpolizei in Frankfurt a.M.
1.4.1942 Oberst der Luftwaffe

Fritz John Jacobsen (*7.7.1894 Berlin-Charlottenburg, + 3.8.1981 Nürnberg)

August Jühe (*2.6.1894 Rottweil +27.10.1973 Köln)
late 20s & 30s Flugleiter Lufthansa in Düsseldorf

Erich Just (1898-1955 Wessling)
20s Pilot for Deutsche Luftreederei, later in China Pilot for Chiang Kai Check
return to Germany, Industrie Pilot for Dornier.
His son George lives in Montreal

Franz Kirchfeld (4.7.1897 Essen +8.7.1969 Essen)

Georg Kröhl (*22.10.1896 Ilefeld) died in a crash on 13.9.1925 in München-Schleißheim with his Dietrich DP IIa D-532

Otto Könnecke +25.1.1956 Bad Aibling

Arthur Korff (*4.3.1898 Hamburg +13.9.1931 Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel)
crashed with his BFW M23b D-2028

Karl-Friedrich Kutschke (*1.12.1894 Berlin +12.9.1980 Bochum)
worked for the Aral Oil Company

Walter Kypke (*22.9.1893 Stettin +16.6.1924 Magdeburg)
Chefpilot der Luftreederei Magdeburg (Paramilitärische Flugschule)
crashed with Dietrich DP IIa D-362

bye
Hal

[Frank_Olynyk]

Hal,
That is great information, and fills in a number of holes. I hope you can do the same with my other posts!

Looks like that Dietrich DP IIa was a little dangerous. Two dead just in this portion of the alphabet, and almost within a year of each other.

Many thanks.

Frank.

[rammjaeger]

Frank,

the aircraft built by Richard Dietrich (ex: Feld-Flieger-Abteilung 24) were successful training and sport aircraft since the mid-20s.
The number of deadly accidents of German pilots in this time was very high in general. Many WWI pilots died this way. The Dietrich DP IIa was widely distributed in Germany and already this fact could explain it´s share among all the accidents. As well Dietrich complained bitterly about some dubios flying teachers who risked their own lifes and the lifes of their pupils because of silly reasons.

VBR
Rammjaeger