20th Flak Brigade

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The 20th Flak Brigade was a brigade-strength combat unit of the Luftwaffe in World War II . The establishment of the brigade staff took place on April 17, 1943 under the command of Colonel Wolfgang Bayer.

Mission history

The brigade staff emerged from the transformation of the regimental staff of Flak Regiment 175 and was initially called the Stuttgart Air Defense Command , later Flak Brigade XX . The command post was in Stuttgart Am Tatzelwurm . The brigade staff was responsible for the operational management of all anti-aircraft units stationed in southern Germany . In detail it was subordinate to him

• Flak Regiment 68 as Flak Group Karlsruhe
• Flak Regiment 75 as Flak Group Stuttgart as well as the
• Flak Regiment 96 as Flak Group Friedrichshafen .

There were 15 heavy flak batteries in the greater Stuttgart area, 11 in Karlsruhe and 22 in Friedrichshafen . After the Allied invasion of Normandy , the brigade staff was released from its previous duties on June 21, 1944 and relocated to the west in the area of ​​the Feld-Luftgaukommando Belgium-Northern France . There, the brigade staff took over the leadership of the flak forces in the area Doullens - Arras - Amiens - Abbeville with a command post in Doullens, later Rotterdam with the following regiments:

• Flak Regiment 11
• Flak Regiment 20
• Flak Regiment 89
• Flak Regiment 129
• Flak Regiment 132 and that
• Flak searchlight regiment 132

Due to constant regroupings and detachment of flak regiments, the flak regiments 20, 100, 129 and the flak headlight regiment 195 were subordinate on September 20, 1944. For non-verifiable reasons, however, the brigade staff was disbanded on October 23, 1944 and initially under the name Flak Brigade z. b. V. continued until it was reorganized as the 9th Flak Brigade on January 31, 1945 .

Continuation as an anti-aircraft brigade z. b. V.

After the organizational reorganization of the brigade on October 23, 1944, which was still under the command of Colonel Bayer, the brigade staff of the 16th Flak Division with a command post was set up in Huis ter Heide . Their main task was to intercept the flooding anti-aircraft air force units and to reorganize them in an orderly manner. On December 6, 1944, it had 18 heavy and 42 medium and light flak batteries. The subordinate regiments were not known. On January 31, 1945, the Briagde staff went under its new name 9th Flak Brigade .

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. 160 .
2. ^ Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German flak cartillery 1935-1945. Your major formations and regiments . VDM, Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 , p. 170 .