Hans Jeschonnek

Hans Jeschonnek was a German Generaloberst and a Chief of the General Staff of Nazi Germanys Luftwaffe during World War II. He committed suicide in August 1943.

Jeschonnek was born in Hohensalza in the Prussian Province of Posen. The son of an assistant secondary school master, he studied at the cadet institute of Lichterfelde. He was commissioned as a Leutnant in 1914 and began flying with Jasta in 1917. By the time World War I ended, Jeschonnek had shot down two enemy aircraft and received the Iron Cross 1st Class and the Iron Cross 2nd Class.

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