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My "take" on this below, but I cannot guarantee that the names and dates are 100% correct. As you can see from the sourcing, the primary documentation is incomplete and it was necessary to refer to a lot of secondary sources. That's why Doug and I kind of left it open in the career summaries.

Jagdfliegerführer 2 (Luftflotte 2, then independent)
(FpN: L 36410, L 38174)

Jagdfliegerführer:
Gen.Maj. Kurt-Bertram von Döring (21 Dec 39 - 31 Dec 40)
Gen.Maj. Theodor Osterkamp (1 Jan 41 - 31 Jul 41)
Oberst Joachim-Friedrich Huth (1 Aug 41 - 16 Aug 42?)
Maj. Karl Hentschel, acting (17 Aug 42 - 12 Oct 42?)
Oberst Karl Viek (13 Oct 42 - 15 Sep 43)

Formation. (Jan 40)
Officially formed 1 January 1940 at Dortmund, although there is some evidence that the Stab was already in existence at least a month before this. Controlled the fighter forces assigned to Luftflotte 2 until the second half of May 1941 when it became independent and was reassigned to Luftflotte 3.[1]

Germany then Northeast France. (Jan 40 - Sep/Oct 43)
10 May 40: Stab at Dortmund under Luftflotte 2 for the attack on France and the Low Countries.[2]
Jul 40: Stab at Le Touquet/S of Boulogne under Luftflotte 2 on conclusion of the campaign in the West.[3]
13 Aug 40: Stab at Wissant/20 km SW of Calais on the Channel coast for the air offensive against England (Battle of Britain). For an interesting discussion of the exact location of the Jafü 2 command bunker, see the web link in the footnote. This discussion places it in an abandoned French coastal artillery fortification about 2 to 3 km WSW of the village of Sangatte. Wissant, on the other hand, is about 8 km SW of Sangatte.[4]
Oct 40: Stab now back at Le Touquet.[5]
3 Apr 41: a Bf 108 assigned to the Stab crash landed at Antwerpen, 15%.[6]
12 Apr 41: Bf 109 attacked and damaged by an enemy fighter over Le Touquet, 25%.
15 Apr 41: Stab at Le Touquet.[7]
23 May 41: Bf 109E-7 crash landed at Fp.Etaples near Le Touquet, 100%.
26 Sep 41: Kl 35 shot up and force landed near Dieppe, 35%, 1 KIA.
25 Feb 42: Fw 58 bombed on the ground at Fp. Etaples, 50%.
31 May 42: Stab at St-Pol - Brias/33 km NW of Arras.
Jul 43: St.Pol - Brias.
Aug 43: St.Pol – Brias.
15 Sep 43: renamed Stab/Jagdfliegerführer 4.[8]

© H.L. deZeng IV, 2004

[1] G.Tessin-Verbände und Truppen der Deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS 1939-1945. Teil 14: Die Luftstreitkräfte; C.Shores-Fledgling Eagles: The Complete Account of Air Operations During the ‘Phony War’ and Norwegian Campaign, 1940:143.

[2] U.Balke-Der Luftkrieg in Europa: Die Operativen Einsätze des Kampfgeschwader 2 im Zweiten Weltkrieg, Teil 1:403.

[3] K.Ries-The Luftwaffe: A Photographic Record 1919-1945:106.

[4] U.Balke-op cit:409; http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=140823&start=0 .

[5] PRO London: ADM 223/OIC-SI (Operational Intelligence Centre - Special Intelligence), a daily intelligence report based on ULTRA and other signals intelligence that began about January 1942.

[6] BA-MA Freiburg: RL 2 III Meldungen über Flugzeugunfälle…..(Loss Reports – LRs).

[7] ADM 223/OIC-SI.

[8] K.Mehner/R.Teuber-Die deutsche Luftwaffe 1939-1945: Führung und Truppe; D.Caldwell-JG 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe; NARA WashDC: RG 242/T-77 Luftwaffenpersonalamt assignment orders.