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Sunday, September 17, 2023

Hermann Graf Wedding


The wedding day of Luftwaffe ace Oberst Hermann Graf and actress Jola Jobst, which were held on 29 June 1944. This picture shows when the bride and groom entering their names together in the "Goldene Buch" (Golden Book) at the City Hall of Wiesbaden. Graf and Jobst first met in Berlin in 1943 when the Luftwaffe ace organizing the necessary transfers for his new assignment as the Kommodore of Jagdgeschwader 50. He was introduced to the young film actress Jola Jobst, and then they got in touch. From April to early July 1944 Graf spent time recovering in a hospital in his home-town of Engen. In June he married Jobst, whom he had been seeing over the past year. After Hermann Graf had returned from Soviet captivity in December 1949 his marriage with Jola Jobst collapsed and they were divorced. Following her divorce, Jobst married fellow actor Wolfgang Kieling in 1950. Tragically, for unknown reason, Jola Jobst committed suicide only two years later at the age of 36...

Source :
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek photo collection (Image-No.: 50071541)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Graf

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