German Luftwaffe fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II. He is noted for his aerial battles during the North African Campaign and his Bohemian lifestyle. One of the most successful fighter pilots, he was nicknamed the "Star of Africa". Marseille claimed all but seven of his "official" 158 victories against the British Commonwealth's Desert Air Force over North Africa, flying the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter for his entire combat career. No other pilot claimed as many Western Allied aircraft as Marseille. He died in an airplane accident 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) south of Sidi Abdel Rahman, Egypt, on 30 September 1942, aged 22.Sy Scholfield quotes from his Wikipedia biography: "Hans-Joachim 'Jochen' Walter Rudolf Siegfried Marseille was born to Charlotte (maiden name: Charlotte Marie Johanna Pauline Gertrud Riemer) and Hauptmann Siegfried Georg Martin Marseille, a family with paternal Huguenot ancestry, in Berlin-Charlottenburg Berliner Strasse 164 on 13 December 1919 at 11:45 pm." The source is given as "Hauptmann Hans Joachim Marseille— Ein Jagdfliegerschicksal in Daten, Bildern und Dokumenten" [Captain Hans Joachim Marseille— A Fighter Pilots Fate in Data, Images and Documents] (in German) by Walter Wübbe (Schnellbach, Germany: Verlag Siegfried Bublies, 2001), p. 90.
Chart Analysis
Lagna for this natal chart is Leo. The lagna lord Sun has a shadbala ratio of 1.19 and is placed in house 4.
Moon is in nakshatra of P.Phalg (δ,θ Leonis) in pada 4. Moon has a shadbala ratio of 1.14 and is placed in house 1
The strongest planet in this chart is Saturn with a shadbala ratio of 1.45 and is placed in house 1.
The weakest planet in this chart is Jupiter with a shadbala ratio of 1.11 and is placed in house 12.
