Generalmajor Kurt Boettge (Luftwaffe)

SOME OF THE PRISONERS HELD AT
SPECIAL CAMP 11

NAME: Generalmajor Kurt Boettge (Luftwaffe)

PW NO: 560354

RANK: Generalmajor

CAPTURED: Norway

DATE: 9th May 1945

PERSONAL
DATE OF BIRTH: 13 December 1892

PLACE OF BIRTH: Arnsberg/Westfalen

DATE OF DEATH: 19 September 1946

PLACE OF DEATH: British military hospital in Shugborough, Staffordshire

NATIONALITY: German

RELIGION:

OCCUPATION: Regular Air Force Officer

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Promotions:

Fahnenjunker: 8 March 1912
Fahnenjunker-Unteroffizier: 15 July 1912
Fähnrich: 19 November 1912 (E3e)
Leutnant: 19 August 1913 – Patent 19 August 1911
Oberleutnant: 5 October 1916
Charakter als Hauptmann: 11 June 1920
Major: 1 June 1935 – RDA 1 July 1934
Oberstleutnant: 1 October 1936 (5)
Oberst: 1 January 1939
Generalmajor: 1 October 1941 (2)

Commands & Assignments:

8 March 1912-3 September 1914: Entered the Army as a Fahnenjunker and then Company Officer in the 2. Oberrheinisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.99.
4 September 1914-25 September 1914: Deputy Battalion Adjutant in Infantry Regiment 99.
26 September 1914-31 July 1915: Wounded/hospitalized/transferred to the Replacement Battalion of Infantry Regiment 99.
1 August 1915-24 April 1916: Again, Deputy Battalion Adjutant in Infantry Regiment 99.
25 April 1916-28 October 1916: Sick/in hospital.
29 October 1916-1 January 1917: Aerial Observer training.
2 January 1917-14 January 1917: Transferred to Air Park East.
15 January 1917-28 April 1917: Transferred to the Thorn Observer School.
29 April 1917-14 December 1917: Transferred to Army Air Park 8.
15 December 1917-31 January 1919: Aerial Observer in Flieger-Abteilung [Flying Detachment] 37.
1 February 1919-28 July 1919: Aerial Observer in Flieger-Abteilung 453.
29 July 1919-21 October 1919: In the Processing Center of Infantry Regiment 99.
22 October 1919-11 January 1920: Company Officer in Infantry Regiment 21.
12 January 1920-31 March 1920: Transferred to the Processing Office of Infantry Regiment 99.
31 March 1920: Separated from the Army.
30 January 1933-30 April 1934: Member of the Reich Committee for Youth Physical Training and a Group and Platoon Leader in the Reich Cross Country Sports School in Döberitz.
1 May 1933-25 July 1933: School Leader of the Ohrdruf/Thüringen Cross Country Sports School.
26 July 1933-14 March 1934: Appointed the Sturmabteilung [SA–the “Brown Shirts”] Chief of Training of SA-Group Thüringen.
15 March 1934-7 August 1934: Appointed the SA Chief of Training of SA-Obergruppe V.
8 August 1934-31 May 1935: Land Leader V of the Chief of Training Services of the SA.
1 June 1935: Entered the Luftwaffe with the rank of Major.
1 June 1935-1937: Company Chief in Air Replacement Regiment “Oschatz.”
1937-31 March 1939: Commander of Air Replacement Battalion 13 and Commandant of the Handorf Military Airfield.
1 April 1939-1941: Commander of Air Training Regiment 13.
1941-February 1945: Airfield District Commandant 1/I.
February 1945-8 May 1945: Commander of the Air Staff Troops in Luftgau [Air Administrative Zone] Command Norway.
9 May 1945-19 September 1946: Prisoner of war in British captivity.
- 19th February 1946 transferred from Island Farm Special Camp 11 to Camp 252
- 19th September 1946 Died in Camp 99 Military Hospital

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