Generalleutnant Friedrich-Wilhelm Jakoby Born: 31 Oct 1899 in Remscheid Died: 19 Jan 1967 in D�sseldorf Promotions:
Gefreiter (ROA) (19 May 1916); Unteroffizier der Reserve (01 May 1917); Vizefeldwebel der Reserve (15 Jun 1917); Leutnant der Reserve (23 Mar 1918); Polizei-Leutnant (01 Nov 1919); Polizei-Oberleutnant (24 May 1924); Polizei-Hauptmann (11 Aug 1932); Polizei-Major (20 Apr 1933); Polizei-Oberstleutnant (07 Jun 1934); Charakter als Oberstleutnant (01 Oct 1935); Oberstleutnant (01 Oct 1937); Oberst (01 May 1939); Generalmajor (01 Feb 1943); Generalleutnant (30 Jan 1945) Career:
Entered the Army Reserve as a War Volunteer with the Replacement-Battalion of the 53rd Infantry-Regiment (19 Jun 1915-24 Aug 1915)
War Volunteer with the Recruitment-Battalion of the 50th Infantry-Division then with the 9th Company of the 53rd Infantry-Regiment (25 Aug 1915-28 Feb 1917)
Officer-Training in Sennelager (01 Mar 1917-14 Jun 1917)
Platoon-Leader in the 53rd Infantry-Regiment (15 Jun 1917-22 Jan 1918)
Company-Officer in the 2nd Reserve-Infantry-Regiment (23 Jan 1918-00 Dec 1918)
Adjutant of the Replacement-Battalion of the 2nd Reserve-Infantry-Regiment (00 Dec 1918-30 Mar 1919)
Company-Officer with the III. Battalion of the 34th Fusilier-Regiment (31 Mar 1919-30 Apr 1919)
District-Commissioner with the II. Army-Corps (01 May 1919-31 Oct 1919)
Transferred to Police Service as Platoon-Leader, Sports-Officer, Adjutant, Signals-Officer then Leader with the Protection-Police Remscheid, H�xter, Liegnitz, D�sseldorf, Duisburg and Berlin (01 Nov 1919-30 Jan 1933)
Adjutant of the Prussian Prime Minister and Prussian Interior Minister (G�ring) (31 Jan 1933-19 Apr 1933)
With the Operations-Staff of the Prussian State-Police (20 Apr 1933-05 Jun 1934)
Commander of State-Police-Group �General G�ring� (06 Jun 1934-30 Sep 1935)
Transferred to Luftwaffe Service and Commander of Luftwaffe-Regiment �General G�ring� (01 Oct 1935-12 Aug 1936)
Detached for Training to Air-District-Flying-School, Luftwaffe-Command, Air-Base and Air-Signals-School in Halle, Saale and to the RLM (13 Aug 1936-28 Feb 1937)
Detached to Signals-Liaison-Affairs with Air-District-Command I (01 Mar 1937-31 Mar 1938)
Commander of Air-Signals-Battalion I/13, Nordhausen (01 Apr 1938-30 Jun 1938)
Commander of Air-Signals-Battalion II/1 (01 Jul 1938-25 Oct 1939)
At the same time, Plenipotentiary Signals-Liaison-Officer Luftwaffe with Army High Command 4 and Signals-Leader with Air-Region-Staff 3 (26 Aug 1939-04 Oct 1939)
At the same time, Signals-Leader with Air-Region-Command VII, Munich (05 Oct 1939-26 Oct 1939)
Commander of the 1st Air-Signals-Regiment, renamed Air-Signals-Regiment Jakoby (26 Oct 1939-09 Mar 1940)
Commander of the 11th Air-Signals-Regiment (10 Mar 1940-28 Feb 1941)
Signals-Leader with Air-Region-Command I (01 Mar 1941-05 Oct 1941)
Signals-Leader with the VIII. Flying-Corps (06 Oct 1941-01 Sep 1942)
Higher Signals Leader with Air-Fleet-Command 2 (02 Sep 1942-17 May 1943)
Severely Wounded, in Hospital (17 May 1943-00 Oct 1943)
Higher Signals Leader with the Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, OKL (00 Oct 1943-24 Dec 1943)
Higher Signals Leader with Air-Fleet-Command 5 (25 Dec 1943-10 Oct 1944)
Higher Signals Leader with the Commanding General of German Luftwaffe in Norway (11 Oct 1944-15 Dec 1944)
Officer with Special Duties of the RLM and Luftwaffe High Command � F�hrer-Reserve OKL � Because of a head injury received on 17 May 1943, was in Hospital until the end of the war, therefore there was no War-Captivity (16 Dec 1944-08 May 1945)
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