15th Flak Division

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The 15th Flak Division was a major unit of the German Air Force in World War II .

history

The establishment of the command staff of the 15th Flak Division took place on March 1, 1942 in Ploesti ( Romania ) from the permanent staff of the Flak Brigade III stationed there until then. The main task was the protection of the local oil fields , this task was now taken over by the 15th Flak Division. The command of the division was Lieutenant General Gerhard Hoffmann , who held this position until November 15, 1942 . The division was only responsible for protecting the oil fields for a few months, however, as the 15th Flak Division was relocated to the southern section of the Eastern Front in May 1942 , where it was deployed in the Mariupol area alongside the 1st Panzer Army . The structure of the division in the summer of 1942 included that

• Flak Regiment 4
• Flak Regiment 7
• Flak Regiment 104

With the beginning of the Blue Fall , the German summer offensive from June 1942, the units of the 15th Flak Division advanced as far as Maikop . There their regiments were also used as ground combat units in fighting tanks . At an unknown point in time in autumn or winter 1942, the division was subordinated to the 37 Flak Regiment, which set up an anti-tank bar in the Rostov area . Also in December 1942, the later major general Eduard Muhr took over the leadership of the division, which he held until June 7, 1944. In the later tough German withdrawal battles in the Donets area , the regiments of the 20th Flak Division distinguished themselves again, so that the division was named in the Wehrmacht report on February 20, 1943 . With the start of the Zitadelle enterprise , the last major German attack on Kursk , the 15th Flak Division with a total of eight flak divisions was in the Warenowka - Kamjanka area .

After the retreat movements of the German troops in autumn 1943, the 15th Flak Division was relocated to Romania . Colonel Hans Simon became the commander on June 7, 1944 , but on August 29, 1944 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. The structure of the division with command post in Gagestil comprised the following regiments on August 23, 1944, the day Romania declared war on the German Reich:

• Flak Regiment 4 in the Jassy area
• Flak Regiment 12 Focsani
• Flak Regiment 104
• Flak regiment 133 in the Kronstadt and Klausenburg area

After Simon was captured , Major General Theodor Herbert became the new commander, who led the division until January 18, 1945, only to be replaced by Hans-Wilhelm Doering-Manteuffel from January 19 until the end of the war. In the course of the further retreat battles of the Wehrmacht, the 15th Flak Division was then in November 1944 with its regiments in Hungary with division status first in Budapest and later in Stuhlweissenburg (also Hungary). As of December 1, 1944, this is the last known division of the division:

• Flak Regiment 4,
• Flak Regiment 12 and that
• Flak Regiment 133

A few more regiments were brought in, but these could not be specified. The Flak Regiment 12 was included in the Battle of Budapest and was subsequently taken prisoner by the Soviets. Following the further retreat battles, the remaining units of the 15th Flak Division had to retreat to the greater Vienna area by April 1945 , where their command post was in Mödling . By April 14, 1945, the division's regiments had shot down a total of seventy tanks and seven aircraft. At the end of April 1945 the command post had to be relocated one last time to Sonntagberg ( Lower Austria ) due to the development of the fighting , where it remained until the end of the war. At that time, the division still had 25 heavy and 6 medium and light batteries . No facts have yet become known about the surrender of their units at the end of the war.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German flak cartillery 1935-1945. Your major formations and regiments . VDM, Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 , p. 81-83 .