2nd Flak Division

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The 2nd Flak Division was a major combat unit of the German Air Force in World War II .

Division history

The large association was set up on July 1, 1938 as the Leipzig Air Defense Command . On August 1, 1939, the name was changed to Air Defense Command 2 . The command was subordinate to Luftgaukommando IV in Dresden . The main task was to protect all armaments and industrial plants in central Germany against air attacks. With the general mobilization of the German armed forces in August 1939, the following units were under the command:

On September 1, 1941, the Air Defense Command 2 was renamed the 2nd Flak Division . On December 31, 1941, the division had 35 heavy and 26 medium and light batteries and 10 headlight batteries. In January 1942, the division was mobilized and posted to Northern Russia to replace the 14th Flak Division in Army Group North . The following support was provided:

From June 1942 to June 1944 the division was subordinate to Luftflotte 1 and took part in the German-Soviet War in this phase . Later in 1944 the division was only assigned to the 18th Army. She stayed in northern Russia until September 1944, before moving to Trier on the Western Front .

The division came in the Battle of the Bulge , until the end of February 1945 the III. Anti-aircraft corps , deployed and fought in the Eifel . On January 8, 1945, the division had 18 heavy and 17 medium and light batteries left. In February the command post was in Bonn . The battle for Cologne and in support of the 5th Panzer Army in the Ruhr basin followed .

The surviving members of the division went into American captivity on April 17, 1945.

structure

1942

  • Anti-aircraft regiment 41
  • Anti-aircraft regiment 151
  • Flak Regiment 164
  • Flak Transport Battalion 4

1944

  • Anti-aircraft regiment 41
  • Anti-aircraft regiment 151
  • Flak Regiment 164

Commanders

  • Colonel / Major General Walter Feyerabend : from the establishment to April 10, 1940
  • Major General Oskar Bertram : April 10, 1940 to December 3, 1940
  • Major General / Lieutenant General Heinrich Burchard : December 3, 1940 to July 1, 1941
  • Lieutenant General Walter Feyerabend: July 1, 1941 to September 1, 1941
  • Lieutenant General Oskar Bertram: September 1, 1941 to January 12, 1942
  • Lieutenant General Walter Feyerabend: January 12, 1942 to February 3, 1942
  • Colonel / Major General / Lieutenant General Heino von Rantzau : February 3, 1942 to October 1, 1943
  • Major General / Lieutenant General Alfons Luczny : October 1, 1943 to November 15, 1944
  • Colonel Fritz Laicher: November 15, 1944 until the end of the war

literature

  • Mitcham, Samuel W., Jr. (2007). German Order of Battle. Volume Two: 291st - 999th Infantry Divisions, Named Infantry Divisions, and Special Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books, pp. 324 + 325, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antony Beevor: The Ardennes Offensive 1944: Hitler's Last Battle in the West . C. Bertelsmann Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-641-16963-3 ( google.de [accessed on July 6, 2019]).
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German flak cartillery 1935-1945. Your major formations and regiments . VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 , p. 48-50 .