Karl Bolle

Rittmeister Karl Bolle, (20 June 1893 – 9 October 1955), Pour le Merite, Military Merit Cross, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Friedrich Order, Iron Cross was a fighter ace with 36 victories during World War I. He became a Jasta commander during that war, and an advisor to the Luftwaffe during World War II. Karl Bolle was born in Berlin, to a family owning a well-known dairy. He studied economics at The University of Oxford in 1912, and was also well known for his athletic prowess, playing ice hockey while there. He returned home to Germany to enlist as a leutnant (lieutenant) in the 7th von Seydlitz Kurassier (cavalry) Regiment in 1913 as a one year volunteer. At the start of World War I his regiment served on the Western Front,...