Hans Jeschonnek

[Jeremy Dixon]

Has anyone got a detailed biography of Hans Jeschonnek

Thanks

[Michael Miller]

Not sure how much detail you require, but Gareth Collins has posted a pretty detailed bio of Jeschonnek at http://www.geocities.com/~orion47/WEHRM ... ONNEK_HANS

Best,
~ Mike

[K.Kocjancic]

Does anyone have any info on his family background? Or why he commited suicide (was it because Hamburg or anything alse (also)?

Regards,
Klemen

[K.Kocjancic]

Some Slovenian researchers are saying that he was of Slovene origin (Slovene family-name Ježovnik); his family came from Savinjska dolina to Prussia. Can anyone confirm this?

Regards,
Klemen

[Dieter Zinke]

I only know his parents:
Studiendirektor Fritz Jeschonnek and Klara geb. Sperl

Dieter Z.

[K.Kocjancic]

I only know his parents:
Studiendirektor Fritz Jeschonnek and Klara geb. Sperl

Dieter Z.

Thanks!

Regards,
Klemen

[kaares]

Generaloberst Hans Jeschonnek was (probably) of Polish origin. One of his brothers died in WWI and one was a concentration camp prisoner during WWII (I'm not sure of which camp).
Hans Jeschonnek committed suicide after the allied Penemünde bombings that set back the German rocket and jet programmes.

Regards,
K Seeberg Sidselrud

[historymuseum2000]

I am curious why was Jeschonnek's brother in a concentration camp?

Thank you for more information!

Lee Drake

[kaares]

According to my late father-in-law the brother of the general was arrested after the fall of Poland as an officer (?) in the Polish army/air force. He did, however, deny during his imprisonment any relationship with the general to avoid drawing any attention to himself. I have to speak with my mother-in-law to get more information about this.

Regards,

K Seeberg Sidselrud

[K.Kocjancic]

Interesting! If you can find any additional info on him, that would be great.

Regards,
Klemen

[joerg]

His youngest brother GERT Jeschonnek (lived 1912-1999) was a naval officer since 1930. He was artillery officer on the light cruiser "Nürnberg" 1937-40, same 1941-43 on heavy cruiser "Lützow" and 1944/45 he served at the "Seekriegsleitung" (SKL).
1952 he came to the "Amt Blank", 1955-1971 he served in the Bundeswehr, finally he was the "Inspekteur der Marine" since 1967, rank Vizeadmiral.

[kaares]

Anybody know how many brothers/sisters Hans Jeschonnek had?

[Igor Karpov]

Photo of Hermann Göring and Hans Jeschonnek.

[kaares]

Re the Jeschonnek family - they were of Polish origin - from Schlesien, either Hans Jeschonnek or his father was taken from his family and grew up in a German environment. The "brother" turned out to be a cousin when I dug deeper in the information the family had regarding this. He was however in a concentration camp and did propably survive because of his name. A some what different explanation that the one I was given earlier. I am sorry for this.

Regards,

Kaare Seeberg Sidselrud

[AlifRafikKhan]

Another picture from the same occasion...

Source : http://www.germaniainternational.com/goring3.html