17th Flak Brigade

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The 17th Flak Brigade was a brigade-strength task force of the Luftwaffe in World War II . The brigade staff was set up on March 30, 1943 in the Italian theater of war.

Mission history

Initially set up under the name Flak Brigade XVII , the brigade staff took over the operational management of the flak units set up in Naples , Palermo and later Sicily East. That belonged to them

• Flak-Regiemt 57 as flak group Naples
• Flak Regiment 131 as Flak Group Palermo, later Flak Group Sicily East

There are no documents about operations or battles in this first month, as the brigade staff was disbanded on July 27, 1943. The staff was then merged into the staff of the General of the Flak Artillery South .

The realignment of brigadier rod for 17 anti-aircraft brigade took place a year later on June 8, 1944, corresponding conversion of the regimental staff of Flak Regiment 71. The new staff took over at the same time the head of operations of Flakverbände in the room Budapest ( Hungary ) with headquarters ibid . However, no independent regimental staffs were subordinated to him. On August 23, 1944, only 15 heavy and 2 light German batteries were under control . The subordinate Hungarian anti-aircraft units, however, amounted to 34 heavy and 49 medium and light batteries and 8 headlight batteries. In the course of the approaching Red Army with an attack on the Hungarian capital in late autumn 1944, the German flak forces were reinforced so that their number rose to 48 batteries. Of these, however, only 5 difficult. These were scattered in the Budapest- Miskolc - Lake Balaton area .

Only at the beginning of December 1944 was the Flak Regiment 104 subordinate to the brigade staff. At this point in time the anti-aircraft units previously subordinate to them had been withdrawn. The Flak Regiment 104, however, also retired in December 1944 and was subordinated to the 15th Flak Division . At the end of December 1944, the brigade had just 10 German batteries and various Hungarian flak units. In total it amounted to 85 batteries. At an unknown point in time, probably around the turn of the year 1944/1945, the brigade was subordinated to the V Flak Corps . No operational reports were known until the brigade staff was disbanded on February 15, 1945. Most of the masses were probably overrun in the course of the Soviet offensive.

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Colonel	Ernst Uhl	April 13, 1943 to July 12, 1943
Colonel	Johann Edler von Krziwanek	July 15, 1943 to July 25, 1943
Colonel	Georg Trost	June 8, 1944 to February 15, 1945

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. 155-156 .