Jagdfliegergeschwader 1

Fritz Schmenkel
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History:

25. September 1952

1. JG established

23. September 1953

1. JG renamed Aeroklub Cottbus

1. July 1956

Aeroklub Cottbus renamed FG-1

1. Januray 1961

FG-1 renamed JG-1

3. October 1990

JG-1 disbanded

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Aircraft:
 

 

 

 1955 -
Yak-11
 

 

 

 1953 - 1956
Yak 18		    
 

 

 

 1956 - 19??
MiG-15UTT		    
 

 

 

 1956 - 1967
MiG-17F
MiG-17PF (from 1957)		 GDR-MiG-17-08.png (72107 Byte) GDR-MiG-17-09.png (70576 Byte)
 

 

 

 1965 - 1988
MiG-21PF MiG-21SPS, MiG-21SPS/K		    
 

 

 

 1988 - 1990
MiG-21US, MiG-21UM und MiG-21MF		    
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Air Base Assingment

Bauzen

16. Aug. 1952

23. Sep. 1952

Cottbus

23. Sep. 1952

23. Nov. 1982

Holzdorf

23. Nov. 1982

3. Oct.1990
 
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Commanding Officers:

Oberkommissar Wolfgang Reinhold

 Sep. 1952

Oct. 1953

Leutnant Günter Rietschel

Oct. 1953

 3. Jul. 1955

Leutnant Helmut Stephan

 3. Jul. 1955

1. Jul. 1956

Hauptmann Klaus Baarss

1. Jul. 1956

1. Jan. 1960

Hauptmann Herbert Priemer

1. Jan. 1960

Jul. 1961

Oberstleutnant Wolfgang Reuter

Jul. 1961

1963

Major Werner Fritsch

1963

1. Jul. 1968

Major Siegfried Mittelbach

1. Jul. 1968

1. Nov. 1973

Oberstleutnant Wolfgang Thonke

1. Nov. 1973

31. Nov. 1974

Oberstleutnant Eberhard Köllner

31. Nov. 1974

31. Nov. 1976

Major. Rainer Strassburg

31. Nov. 1976

31. Nov. 1981

Oberstleutnant Wilfried Kernchen

31. Nov. 1981

1. Dec. 1988

Oberstleutnant Helmut Seehaus

1. Dec. 1988

3. Oct.1990
 
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History:

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