Reinhold Jörke

Reinhold Jörke
Birth nameJohann Friedrich Reinhold Jörke
Born(1893-07-29)29 July 1893
Klein Leuthen, Brandenburg, Prussia
Died8 November 1944(1944-11-08) (aged 51)
Budapest, Hungary
AllegianceGermany
Service / branchAviation
RankOffiziersstellvertreter (Warrant Officer)
UnitJagdstaffel 12, Jagdstaffel 13, Jagdstaffel 39
AwardsIron Cross First Class

OStv Johann Friedrich Reinhold Jörke (29 July 1893 – 8 November 1944) was a German World War I flying ace credited with 14 confirmed aerial victories.

Biography

He was posted to the Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 12 on 27 February 1917, and scored his first victory with them on 24 March 1917 by downing British ace Cyril Lowe. Jörke had run up nine victories by 18 September 1917. He then switched to the Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 13, and scored a single win, his tenth, with them, on 21 February 1918. In June 1918, he was posted to the Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 39 as it returned from Italy. He lasted out the war with them, scoring four more victories in August and September 1918. [1][2]

In the Second World War, he was killed in Budapest while serving as a military police officer for Nazi Germany.[3]

Aerial victories

See also: Aerial victory standards of World War I

Doubled dividing lines in list denote Jörke's change of squadrons.

No. Date/time Foe Location Notes
1 24 March 1917 @ 1030 hours Royal Aircraft Factory FE.2b Croisselles No. 11 Squadron RFC loss
2 22 April 1917 @ 2010 hours SPAD West of Havrincourt No. 23 Squadron RFC loss
3 26 May 1917 @ 2015 hours Sopwith Pup Etaing No. 66 Squadron RFC loss
4 3 June 1917 @ 1750 hours Royal Aircraft Factory FE.2b Epehy
5 20 August 1917 @ 0920 hours Sopwith 1½ Strutter Vitry No. 43 Squadron RFC loss
6 5 September 1917 @ 1945 hours Sopwith Camel West of Lens
7 16 September 1917 @ 1415 hours Sopwith Pup Monchy No. 46 Squadron RFC loss
8 17 September 1917 @ 0700 hours Either Airco DH.5 or Sopwith Pup Feuchy
9 18 September 1917 @ 1105 hours Airco DH.5 Moeuvres No. 41 Squadron RFC loss[4]
10 21 February 1918 Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a Reneuil Ferme
11 19 August 1918 @ 1050 hours Bristol F.2b Arras
12 29 August 1918 @ 0745 hours Bristol F.2b Beauraignes
13 2 September 1918 @ 1125 hours Royal Aircraft Factory RE.8 Baillieu No. 6 Squadron RAF loss
14 15 September 1918 @ 1745 hours Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a No. 56 Squadron RAF loss[1][2]

Sources of information

  1. ^ a b Above the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps 1914 - 1918. p. 138.
  2. ^ a b The Aerodrome website's page on Jörke http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/jorke.php Retrieved on 12 April 2010.
  3. ^ Germany, Deaths of German Citizens Abroad, Registers from Berlin Standesamt 1, 1939–1955
  4. ^ "18 September 1917 – Mid air". The British At War in the Air 1914-1918. 9 October 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2022.

References

  • Above the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps 1914 - 1918 Norman L. R. Franks, et al. Grub Street, 1993. ISBN 0-948817-73-9, ISBN 978-0-948817-73-1.