12th Air Force Field Division

The 12th Air Force Field Division was a major military unit of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. It was set up at the end of 1942 from surplus Luftwaffe personnel at the Bergen military training area near Celle and was used from January 1943 to May 1945. After being severely decimated during the fighting in the Kurland Basin , the large formation was transferred by ship to Danzig , where it was deployed between Danzig and Sopot and was almost completely wiped out by the beginning of May 1945.

Well-known members of the division

• Hanns Günther von Obernitz (1899–1944) was police chief of Nuremberg - Fürth from 1933 to 1934 and a member of the NSDAP in the Reichstag from 1939 to 1944

literature

• Kevin Conley Ruffner: Air Force Field Divisions 1941-1945 , Osprey Publ., Oxford 1990. ISBN 1-85532-100-9 .
• Peter Schmitz / Klaus-Jürgen Thies / Günter Wegmann / Christian Zweng: The German Divisions 1941–1945 , Vol. 3, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1996. ISBN 3-7648-2458-1 .