(Photo courtesy of Gareth Collins)
Generalmajor Joachim Kortüm
Born: 16 Feb 1898 in Stettin
Died: 21 Oct 1982 in Munich (München)
Promotions:
Unteroffizier (14 Feb 1915); Offiziers-Stellvertreter (10 Mar 1915); Fähnrich (06 May 1915); Leutnant (12 Jul 1915); Charakter als Oberleutnant (31 Jan 1920); Polizei-Oberleutnant (01 Feb 1920); Polizei-Hauptmann (18 Dec 1926); Hauptmann (01 Nov 1934); Major (01 Aug 1935); Oberstleutnant (01 Jan 1938); Oberst (01 Aug 1940); Generalmajor (01 Mar 1944)
Career:
Entered the Army as Fahnenjunker and Company-Officer in the 54th Infantry-Regiment (04 Nov 1914-23 Jul 1916)
Temporary-Adjutant with Station-Command Stettin-Head-Station (24 Apr 1916-20 Jul 1916)
Pilot-Training with the 5th Flying-Replacement-Battalion (24 Jul 1916-05 Nov 1916)
Detached to Army-Flight-Park 2 (06 Nov 1916-07 Nov 1916)
Pilot with the 216th Artillery-Flying-Battalion (07 Nov 1916-21 Mar 1917)
Placed to the Disposal of the Commanding General of the Air Force and Detached to Fly with the Aircraft-Works Adlershof (22 Mar 1917-09 Mar 1918)
Pilot in Fighter-Wing 1, Fighter-Squadron 10 (17 Mar 1918-10 Apr 1918)
Pilot with Flying-Battalion A 242 (11 Apr 1918-30 Nov 1918)
Pilot with the 212th Border-Protection-Flying-Battalion then with the Reichswehr-Artillery-Flying-Squadron 117 (01 Dec 1918-31 Jan 1920)
Retired (31 Jan 1920)
Entered Police Service as Pilot with the Police-Flying-Squadron Königsberg (01 Feb 1920-31 May 1921)
Pilot with the Air-Police-Department Pomerania (01 Jun 1921-31 Aug 1922)
Command not ascertainable (01 Sep 1922-30 Sep 1926)
Pilot and Leader of the Police-Flight-Guards Berlin-Tempelhof (01 Oct 1926-31 Jan 1934)
Air-Advisor with the Upper-Presidency in Charlottenburg (01 Feb 1934-14 Jun 1934)
Advisor in Department V, Air-Office Berlin (15 Jun 1934-31 Oct 1934)
Transferred to Luftwaffe Service as Flying-Captain with the High-Altitude-Flight-Centre of the German Flight-Weather-Service in Camp Lechfeld (01 Nov 1934-31 Dec 1934)
Leader of the Flying-Technical-School, Berlin (01 Jan 1935-31 Dec 1935)
Squadron-Captain in Bomber-Wing ‘General Wever’ (01 Jan 1936-31 Jan 1937)
Group-Commander of I. Group in Bomber-Wing 254 (01 Feb 1937-31 Mar 1938)
Group-Leader and Department-Chief in the Luftwaffe-Personnel-Office, Air-Defence 2, RLM (01 Apr 1938-31 Jul 1943)
Airport-Area-Commandant 19/XI (01 Aug 1943-31 Aug 1944)
Commander of the Special-Purpose-Luftwaffe-Landing-Defence-Brigade (01 Sep 1944-05 Sep 1944)
Airport-Area-Commandant 19/XI (06 Sep 1944-18 Jan 1945)
Commanding General and Inspector of the Luftwaffe-Aid-Corps (19 Jan 1945-27 Apr 1945)
General with Special Duties with Air-Fleet 4 (28 Apr 1945-01 May 1945)
In US Captivity (01 May 1945-03 Mar 1947)
Retired (03 Mar 1947)

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