Jochen Genzow

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Joachim "Jochen" Genzow (born December 13, 1915 in Berlin ; † March 7, 1989 there ) was a German professional officer in the Third Reich and a film producer during the Adenauer era .

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As a soldier in the Wehrmacht

Genzow was drafted on July 2, 1934 and first joined the Army, 8th Infantry Regiment. On October 1, 1935, he switched to the Air Force and was trained first at the Neuruppin Aviation School, then at the Berlin Air Command. On April 1, 1936, Genzow was promoted to lieutenant, at the beginning of 1938 or 1939 to first lieutenant. Since July 11, 1940, he was used with a Dornier Do 17 in the Battle of Britain and twice hit hard , once over Harwich and again over London . However, Genzow managed to return to his air base.

From autumn 1941 to September 30, 1942, Jochen Genzow completed general staff training at the Air War Academy in Berlin-Gatow . At about the same time he was promoted to captain and on October 1, 1942, transferred to the Führerreserve in the staff of the Commander-in-Chief South. With his move to the General Staff of the Air Force, Genzow was assigned to General Field Marshal Kesselring as adjutant on July 1, 1943 and was promoted to major at the same time. Jochen Genzow held his last rank just before the end of the war, when he was appointed lieutenant colonel on May 1, 1945.

Genzow's awards include Iron Cross First and Second Class and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (all in 1940 and 1941).

As a film producer

After his release from captivity and the demilitarization of Germany, Jochen Genzow had to undertake a professional reorientation. He decided to switch to film production and settled in Prinzregentenstrasse in Munich . Genzow founded the production company Allegro-Film GmbH in 1950 and with this company produced three very inexpensive films that promised high profits. In 1952, Genzow produced the adventure and aviator film Towers of Silence with his former pilot comrade and director Hans Bertram . Genzow teamed up with his colleague Franz Seitz junior and worked for his Munich-based Ariston-Film GmbH as a production manager.

Apart from Roberto Rossellini's Zweig filming Angst with Ingrid Bergman and both reconstructing the events of July 20, 1944 , GW Pabst's ambitious film It Happened on July 20, Genzow and Seitzen's production output was characterized by little artistic ambition. By the end of the decade, Genzow produced romances, comedies and military clothing such as The adjourned wedding night , IA in Upper Bavaria , Drei Tage Mittelarrest , II-A in Berlin , Aunt Jutta from Calcutta and Mikosch, the pride of the company . At the beginning of the 1960s, Jochen Genzow was also involved in the production of two artistically more ambitious films, Comrade Münchhausen and The Endless Night . Then he ended his film production activity. What Jochen Genzow did during the remaining two and a half decades of his life is not known.

Filmography

literature

  • Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, first volume, Bad Münder 1960, p. 487

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Quickly turning quickies". Article in Der Spiegel , 24/1953
personal data
SURNAME Genzow, Jochen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gentsow, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German professional officer and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1989
Place of death Berlin