22nd Flak Division

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The 22nd Flak Division was a major combat unit of the German Air Force in World War II .

history

The command staff of the 22nd Flak Division was set up in Dortmund in April 1943 under the command of Colonel Johann Edler von Krziwanek and took over the leadership of the flak units in Westphalia and North Hesse as well as the airspace defense of the eastern Ruhr area . As of November 1, 1943, under the new command of the later major general Friedrich Römer, it was organized as follows:

• Flakscheinwerferregiment 54 Munster (from 1944 then AA Regiment 54)
• Flak Regiment 67 Bochum ,
• Flak Regiment 103 Kurhessen ,
• Flak Regiment 124 Dortmund,
• Flak searchlight regiment 146 Dortmund,
• Flak Regiment 183 Hagen and that
• Railway Flak Regiment 112 E

The 22nd Flak Division had a total of 121 heavy (52 in Dortmund alone), 41 medium and light batteries and 39 headlight batteries. Until the end of December 1944, as is usual with the flak divisions, there were several departures and entrances from individual flak regiments. With the war approaching from February 1945, the flak regiments of the 22nd Flak Divisions were used primarily for ground combat (Rhine front). The last major organizational change in the 22nd Flak Division took place on March 1, 1945. Colonel Giese, briefly appointed commander of the 22nd Flak Division (January 30, 1945 to February 1945), was replaced by Römer in the last weeks of the war. At the beginning of March 1945, the command of the 20th Flak Division placed all of the Flak forces in Luftgau VI under the command. On March 24, 1945, the Flak Regiment 47 (Münster), the Flak Regiment 67 (Bochum) and the Flak Regiment 124 (Dortmund) were detached from their task of home air defense and temporarily motorized. However, the regulation was dropped on April 2nd and replaced by a new combat mission. The three anti-aircraft regiments mentioned were given the task of building a new interception line in the Witten and Schwerte area , but these were attacked by the Americans on April 2, 1945 and overrun before they could be built. A few batteries of the 22nd Flak Divisions were still fighting in connection with Army Group B on the Ruhr . When the resistance of the Wehrmacht units in the Kessel was extinguished by April 21, 1945, the 22nd Flak Division and its subordinate units were also wiped out or taken prisoner of war.

Web links

• 22nd Flak Division in the Ruhr area

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. 99, 100 .