Junck, Werner, born 28-11-1895 in Magdeburg,
joined the Army as a war volunteer, age 19, in the 4th Field Artillery Regiment. He was wounded in hospital from 11-10-1915 until 21-12-1915 and started a pilot training
on 12-03-1916. He ended the war as the leader of the 8th Fighter Squadron and retired on 31-05-1923. He reactivated in Hermann Goering´s (did you know) (see Goering-Fock),
(Emmy Sonnemann)
and (Goering Peter)
growing Luftwaffe
on 01-07-1934. At the beginning of World War II he was Inspector of Fighters to 04-06-1940. He was Fighter Leader 3 until 30-04-1941 and Leader of Special Command Junck, to 01-08-1941, Fighter Leader Deutsche Bucht to 31-03-1941 and Commander of Fighter Division Centre until 30-05-1942. Appointed to Commander
of the 3rd Fighter Division to 08-09-1943, 3rd Jagd Division was one of the primary divisions of the German Luftwaffe. It was formed 01-05-1942 in Metz. The Division was redesignated 4th Jagd Division on 15-09-1943 were he succeeded Generalleutnant Joachim-Friedrich Huth
, and reformed 15-09-1943 in Deelen from 1st Jagd Division, under Oberst Gunther Lützow 
Lützow, flying the Me 262 jet fighter for General der Flieger, Adolf “Dolfo” Galland´s JV 44
, nicknamed “Der Galland Zirkus” or “The Galland Circus”,
was posted missing on 24-04-1945 while attempting to intercept a USAAF B-26 Marauder raid near Donauwörth, age 32, his body was never recovered. Detached into the Service Area of Air Fleet 3 until 14-10-1943 as a Generalmajor. Assigned as Commanding General of the II Fighter Corps to 30-06-1944 and landed in the Führer Reserve (see Adolf Hitler) (did you know) (see William Patrick Hitler)
to 31-12-1944, promoted on 01-12-1944 as Generalleutnant. The youngest Generalleutnant in WWII, with 36, was Theodor Tolsdorff. 



















Death and burial ground of Junck, Werner.







