KITS 04/2022

Ltn. Alfred Greven, Jasta 12, Carignan, France, October 1918

A native of Elbefeld (today a part of Wuppertal city),

Alfred Greven was born in 1897, and after completing

high school, he volunteered for the army in September 1914. Greven suffered serious injuries in trenches

and after recovering from wounds, he was transferred to the Luftstreitkräfte, in July 1917 he started to

earn his spurs as a fighter pilot within JG II. As the

Great War drew to its conclusion, he was assigned to

Jasta 12, where he earned four victories during the

last three months of the war. After the Armistice he

started to work in the film industry and joined the

Nazi party in 1931. In 1940, he was named head of the

newly established company “Continental Film” in

occupied France and also founded the SOGEC company running the network of cinemas (mostly confiscated from Jews) and the ACE, the subsidiary of UFA

company (he led UFA as well). Hecontinued in movie

industry after the World War II, but he had to face the

burden of his past several times. Finally, he founded

his own company Alfred Greven Film GmbH in 1953

and produced 10 post-war movies. One of them was

the promotional documentary NATO movie Alarm in

the Mediterranean. Altogether he produced 60 movies, mostly comedies. He died on February 9, 1973,

in Cologne. The fuselage of Greven’s aircraft sported

the typical Jasta 12 colors of blue fuselage and white

nose. The white lightning flash was Greven´s personal marking.

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