John Adair (author) John Adair (author) Professor John Eric Adair (born 18 May 1934) is a British academic who is a leadership theorist and author of more than forty books (translated into eighteen languages) on business, military and other leadership. Adair was born in Luton and educated at St Paul's School before undertaking his National Service as a second lieutenant in the Scots Guards from 1953 to 1955. Unusually, he served as adjutant of a Bedouin regiment in the Arab Legion and was briefly in command of the garrison of Jerusalem in the front line. He also studied at Hull Nautical College (where
Kurt Schmidt and for that he received the Wound Badge in Silver. He also received the Hanseatic Cross from the city of Hamburg. In the last months of the war he was promoted to "Hauptmann" (captain). Kurt Schmidt was a member of the staff of the 5th Infantry Division in 1930, in 1931 he was promoted to Major; in 1937 he was promoted to Oberst. In 1937 the newly promoted Oberst Kurt Schmidt moved with his family to the German town of Hamelin. When he moved to Hamelin he was commander of "Infanterie-Regiment 74". He took part in the invasion of Poland