OStv Johann Friedrich Reinhold Jörke (29 July 1893 – 8 November 1944) was a German World War I

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credited with 14 confirmed aerial victories.

Biography

He was posted to the Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 12 on 27 February 1917, and scored his first victory with them on 24 March 1917 by downing British ace

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. Jörke had run up nine victories by 18 September 1917. He then switched to the Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 13, and scored a single win, his tenth, with them, on 21 February 1918. In June 1918, he was posted to the Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 39 as it returned from Italy. He lasted out the war with them, scoring four more victories in August and September 1918. The Aerodrome website's page on Jörke http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/jorke.php Retrieved on 12 April 2010. In the Second World War, he was killed in Budapest while serving as a military police officer for Nazi Germany.''Germany, Deaths of German Citizens Abroad, Registers from Berlin Standesamt 1, 1939–1955''

Aerial victories

Doubled dividing lines in list denote Jörke's change of squadrons.

Sources of information

References

* ''Above the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps 1914 - 1918'' Norman L. R. Franks, et al. Grub Street, 1993. , . 1893 births 1944 deaths Military personnel from Brandenburg German World War I flying aces Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 1st class Luftstreitkräfte personnel {{wwi-air