120 - Estate of Colonel General Hans Jeschonnek, photos with Hermann Göring, Kesselring dedication

Estate of Colonel General Hans Jeschonnek, photos with Hermann Göring, Kesselring dedication Paper and linen, lot of eleven items, 1) book “Unsere Flieger über Polen. Vier Frontoffiziere berichten”, supervised by General der Flieger Kesselring, black dust jacket with red and blue lettering and photograph of an aircraft cockpit, on the endpaper handwritten dedication by Albert Kesselring to Generalmajor Jeschonnek in memory of the Polish campaign, dated “Kriegs-Weihnacht 1939” and signed “Kesselring, General d. Flieger, Chef d. Luftflotte 1.”, 2) book “Gottlob Espenlaub. Ein Fliegerleben”, grey cloth binding with green spine and cover drawing of a man beneath the glider wing, on the endpaper signature “Espenlaub” with pen drawing of a glider, below a handwritten dedication by the author F. W. Radenbach to the Chief of the General Staff of the Luftwaffe, Generaloberst Jeschonnek, Frankfurt am Main, October 1942, 3) eight black-and-white photographs, among them Hermann Göring in white uniform among leading Luftwaffe officers, Hermann Göring in the cabin of an aircraft, probably taken by his personal photographer, embossed stamp 'Robert' on the mount, in small format the Luftwaffe generals in the funeral procession of Hans Jeschonnek, in large format Hermann Göring inspecting the Atlantic Wall with Hans Jeschonnek to his right, also a biplane with group of men, aircraft wing with Balkenkreuz, uniformed men in front of a church and an aircraft on the shore, 4) postcard with drawing “Immer ran auf Meter!” and handwritten New Year's greeting, condition commensurate with age, dust jacket with losses Hans Jeschonnek (1899 Hohensalza to 1943 Goldap) joined the flying corps in 1917 and became Chief of the General Staff of the Luftwaffe on 1 February 1939; promoted to Generalmajor in August 1939, he led the General Staff in the Polish campaign, received the Knight's Cross on 27 October 1939, became General der Flieger in 1940 and Generaloberst in March 1942. Albert Kesselring (1885 to 1960) commanded Luftflotte 1 from 1938 to January 1940, which supported Army Group North in the Polish campaign, and became Generalfeldmarschall on 19 July 1940; the report by four front-line officers on the Polish campaign, introduced and supervised by him, was published in 1939 by Deutscher Verlag Berlin with 51 photographs. Gottlob Espenlaub (1900 Balzholz to 1972) flew gliders with Alexander Lippisch in 1921, built aircraft in Kassel and Düsseldorf, demonstrated aerotowing with Gerhard Fieseler in 1927 and tested rocket gliders from 1928; his biography “Ein Fliegerleben” by Friedrich Wilhelm Radenbach was published by Thienemann in Stuttgart. Kesselring's dedication to his Chief of General Staff and the dedication copy of the Espenlaub biography make the estate a document of militaria and of the aviation history of the Second World War. As Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Göring was Jeschonnek's direct superior as Chief of the General Staff; the photographs show both together, among them inspecting the Atlantic Wall, and the funeral procession of the Luftwaffe generals at Jeschonnek's burial in 1943.