Rudolf Jenett

Rudolf Jenett (born August 10, 1914 in Russ ; † August 22, 1998 in Hamburg ) was Major i. G. in the Air Force of the Armed Forces and later major general in the army . From 1970 to 1974 he was in command of the Bundeswehr Command Academy .

Career

Education

After graduating from high school in 1933, Jenett first studied medicine at the University of Greifswald , where he became a member of the Corps Pomerania . After the pre-physics course , however, he decided in 1934 to become an officer in the Wehrmacht .

Wehrmacht

He joined the 5th Infantry Regiment in Rostock as a flag boy and attended the Dresden Infantry School in 1934/35. From 1935 to 1936 he graduated from the Neuruppin Aviation School. In 1936 he completed a blind flight . In 1936/37 he attended the Faßberg War Aviation School. From 1937 to 1941 he served in combat squadron 27 "Boelcke" in Langenhagen.

As a lieutenant he and Lieutenant Horst Pulkowski set a new long-distance world record with the two-seater Arado Ar 79 D-EHCR on December 17, 1938 on a non-stop flight between the cities of Benghazi ( Libya ) and Gaya ( India ) with a distance of 6303 km, which exceeded the old record by more than 2000 km. After further stopovers in Bangkok, Sumatra and Bali, they reached Darwin on January 14, 1939 and Sydney , Australia on January 16, 1939 . On the return flight, the machine crashed on February 10, 1939 in a collision with a bird of prey near Madras . Jenett survived, Pulkowski and an Indian passenger were killed.

In 1941/42 he completed general staff training at the Air War Academy in Berlin-Gatow . From September 1942 to September 1943 he was Ia / op. of the air fleet 1 . Promotion to Major i. G. took place during his use as a commodore of the Fliegergruppe z. b. V. 7 on July 1, 1943. From October 1943 until the end of the war, Jenett was First General Staff Officer (Ia) of the 3rd Air Division . In May 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets .

post war period

After the war , Jenett initially worked as a sound engineer for the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation .

armed forces

On February 16, 1956, he was accepted into the newly established Bundeswehr with the rank of major, where he was initially an assistant consultant, and from 1958 he was an assistant in the Federal Ministry of Defense . From December 1959 to June 1961 Jenett was Colonel in command of the flight candidate regiment in Uetersen. Then he was a sub-department head in the BMVg. The appointment as brigadier general took place in the 69th cabinet meeting on March 20, 1963. As assistant to the chief of staff for personnel and administrative matters, he served from 1966 to 1967 at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE). From April 1, 1970 to September 30, 1970 Jenett was in command of the Territorial Command North , and in his last military service until his transfer to provisional retirement on September 30, 1974, commander of the command academy of the Bundeswehr .

Volunteering

From 1970 to 1973 he was Vice President of the Clausewitz Society .

family

He was married and had four children.

Awards

• 1945: German cross in gold
• 1972: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Dermot Bradley , Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model (eds.): The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr (1955-1999). The military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals , part 6b). Volume 2, 2: Hoffmann - Kusserow. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-7648-2370-4 , pp. 512-513.
• Rudolf Jenett , in the International Biographical Archive. 42/1970 from October 5, 1970, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• Photo , leadership academy of the Bundeswehr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deaths , SHAPE Newsletter No. 108, December 1998.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 53 , 703
3. ↑ ^{a b} Rudolf Jenett in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
4. ^ German Airmen at Sydney - One Day Flight From Win ton (English), The Courier-Mail, January 17, 1939.
5. ↑ eichhorn.ws: The aircraft archive , Arado Ar 79 training aircraft, accessed on March 18, 2009.
6. ↑ Arado Ar 79 factory film  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Formations of the Luftwaffe: teaching, training and experimental associations and units (BL 14), Federal Archives.
8. ↑ Minutes of the 69th cabinet meeting: 1. Personal details ( RTF ; 18 kB), March 20, 1963.
9. ^ Territorial Commands - Territorial Commands North and South (BH 26), Federal Archives.
10. ↑ Former commanders of the command academy , command academy of the Bundeswehr
11. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette. Vol. 25, No. 85, May 8, 1973.