Kurt Robert Wilhelm Wolff

Name:

Country:

Germany

Rank:

Oberleutnant

Units:

Jasta 11, 29

Victories:

Born:

06 February 1895

Place of Birth:

Greifswald, Pomerania

Died:

15 September 1917

Place of Death:

Near Moorslede

A former railway transportation officer, Wolff entered the military in 1912 and transferred to the German Air Force in July 1915. On his very first flight, Wolff survived a crash that dislocated his shoulder and killed the plane's pilot. On 5 November 1916, Wolff was posted to Jasta 11 but failed to score any victories until Manfred von Richthofen assumed command of the unit in January 1917. Scoring his 9th victory on 11 April 1917, Wolff downed a Bristol Fighter flown by Irish ace David Tidmarsh. On 6 May, having achieved 28 victories, Wolff was given command of Jasta 29. With this unit, he scored two more victories before returning to command Jasta 11 on 2 July 1917. Wounded nine days later, his left hand was injured in a dogfight with 10 Naval Squadron. When he returned to duty on 11 September 1917, he began flying one of the new Fokker Triplanes. Four days later, in another encounter with 10 Naval Squadron, Wolff was shot down by a Sopwith Camel flown by Norman McGregor. His Dreidecker, the first of its kind to be lost in aerial combat, went into a spin and crashed.

Bavaria, Germany, WWI Personnel Rosters, 1914-1918

Opponents

#9	David Tidmarsh

Victories

	Date	Time	Unit	Aircraft	Opponent	Location
1	06 Mar 1917	1230	Jasta 11		B.E.2d (5856)
2	09 Mar 1917	1020	Jasta 11		F.E.8 (6456)
3	17 Mar 1917	1145	Jasta 11		Sopwith 1½ Strutter (A1097)
4	30 Mar 1917	1145	Jasta 11		Nieuport 17 (A273)
5	31 Mar 1917	0750	Jasta 11		F.E.2b (7691)
6	06 Apr 1917	1015	Jasta 11		R.E.8 (A3421)
7	07 Apr 1917	1745	Jasta 11		Nieuport 17 (A6766)
8	08 Apr 1917	1430	Jasta 11		D.H.4 (A2141)
9	11 Apr 1917	0910	Jasta 11		Bristol F.2a (A3338)
10	13 Apr 1917	0856	Jasta 11		R.E.8 (A3225)
11	13 Apr 1917	1235	Jasta 11		F.E.2b (A827)
12	13 Apr 1917	1630	Jasta 11		Nieuport 23 (A6768)
13	13 Apr 1917	1852	Jasta 11		Martinsyde G.102 (A1564)
14	14 Apr 1917	0920	Jasta 11		Nieuport 17 (B1511)
15	14 Apr 1917	1829	Jasta 11		SPAD VII (A6746)
16	16 Apr 1917	1030	Jasta 11		Nieuport 17 (B1509)
17	21 Apr 1917	1730	Jasta 11		B.E.2e (2766)
18	21 Apr 1917	1745	Jasta 11		Nieuport 23 (A6755)
19	22 Apr 1917	1710	Jasta 11		F.E.2b (A5501)
20	22 Apr 1917	2005	Jasta 11		Morane P (A6727)
21	26 Apr 1917	1635	Jasta 11		B.E.2g (A2806)
22	27 Apr 1917	2020	Jasta 11		F.E.2b (7698)
23	28 Apr 1917	1120	Jasta 11		B.E.2e (A2745)
24	28 Apr 1917	1745	Jasta 11		B.E.2f (2557)
25	29 Apr 1917	1210	Jasta 11		SPAD VII (A6681)
26	29 Apr 1917	1700	Jasta 11		F.E.2b (A5483)
27	30 Apr 1917	1735	Jasta 11		B.E.2e (2910)
28	01 May 1917	1050	Jasta 11		Sopwith Triplane (N5474)
29	01 May 1917	1855	Jasta 11		F.E.2b (A815)
30	13 May 1917	1155	Jasta 29		SPAD (N1377)
31	27 Jun 1917	2030	Jasta 29		Nieuport 23 (A6718)
32	06 Jul 1917	2120	Jasta 11		R.E.8 (A4313)
33	07 Jul 1917	1100	Jasta 11		Sopwith Triplane (N6309)

Books

Under the Guns of the Kaiser's Aces: by Norman Franks and Hal Giblin, Grub Street, London, 2003