Reinhold Jahnow

Reinhold Jahnow (born March 27, 1885 in Breslau ; † August 12, 1914 near Malmedy ) was a German fighter pilot . He was the first German air force officer, who in World War I fell.

Reinhold Jahnow was the son of high school professor Dr. Alfred Jahnow and brother of the Old Testament scholar and teacher Hedwig Jahnow . He became an officer in the German Army , but took his leave in 1911 as a lieutenant in the reserve in order to devote himself to " aviation ". He trained on a Wright plane and put on 10 April 1911 as the 80th German pilot test on a Harlan - monoplane from. In the same year he started with the Deutschlandflug .

In 1913 Jahnow was active as a fighter pilot on the side of the Ottoman Empire in the Second Balkan War, together with another German pilot, which is why he was nicknamed the Turkish pilot . In the same year he reported in Motor magazine that he had to grind his Harlan plane with an ax and burn it because of the approaching Bulgarian soldiers. On the part of the Bulgarians, Germans were also active, which can be explained by the fact that although it was allied with the Ottoman Empire, the Bulgarian King Ferdinand I at the time came from the German dynasty of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .

At the time of his death, Reinhold Jahnow had the rank of first lieutenant in the reserve (1st contingent) and a Turkish captain and belonged to Feldflieger -teilung 1 (FFA 1), which was set up on August 1, 1914 and found its first field airfield in Eupen .

literature

• Peter Supf: The book of German flight history , Volume II. Berlin 1935, p. 468

Individual evidence

1. ↑ frontflieger.de