Wolff, Kurt 'Blümelein' (Jasta 11)

Date of birth:: February 6th, 1895 (Greifswald, Pomerania)
Date of death:: September 15th, 1917 (Wervik, Moorslede)
Nationality:: German

Biography

Oberleutnant Kurt Robert Wilhelm Wolff
00.00.1912: Kadett, Eisenbahn-Regiment Nr. 4
07.03.1914: Fahnenjunker
02.08.1914: Fahnenjunker-Unteroffizier, Eisenbahn-Bau-Kompanie 26, Eisenbahn-Regiment Nr. 4
18.04.1915: promoted to Leutnant without Patent
00.07.1915: transferred to the Fliegertruppe and Flugzeugführerausbildung, Fliegerschule Döberitz
01.10.1915: Armeeflugpark 'Gaede'
18.12.1915: Kasta 26, Kagohl V - Verdun, Somme
17.07.1916: Kasta 40, Kagohl VII
12.10.1916; La Brayelle Airfield, France
05.11.1916: Lt.d.R., Jagdstaffel 11
06.03.1917: 1st air victory, a BE2d-Zweisitzer of the 16th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps
09.04.1917: a Bristol F.2 Fighter flown by the Irish ace David Tidmarsh
13.04.1917: 4 victories
28.04.1917: 5 air victories
29.04.1917: 3 victories, ncluding Major H.D. Harvey-Kelly, commander of No. 19 Squadron RFC
06.05.1917: Lt.d.R., Führer, Jasta 29 with 29 victories
13.05.1917: a French SPAD flown by Sgt Fernand Albert Garrigou, Escadrille 37 over Beine
27.06.1917: a No. 60 Squadron Nieuport 17
02.07.1917: Leutnant der Reserve, Führer, Jasta 11
00.07.1917: his 32nd and 33rd victories : a RE-8 of No. 4 Squadron RFC and a Sopwith Triplane of No. 1 Naval Squadron
11.07.1917: WIA to the left hand and left shoulder over Ypres by a Sopwith Triplane flown by future ace Flight Sub-Lieutenant Herbert Rowley of No. 1 Naval Squadron and crashed on the Courtrai railway line and evacuated to a Lazarett
12.09.1917: promoted to Oberleutnant
15.09.1917: KIA with his new Fokker Fl 102/17 over Moorslede, North of Wervik by Naval Camel B3833 flown by Flight Sub-Lieutenant Norman Miers McGregor DSC (1896-1981), 10th Squadron RNAS
Ace credited with 33 victories