26th Flak Division

26th Flak Division
active	May 1, 1944 to May 1945
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	air force
Branch of service	Flak
Type	division
Location	Munich
Butcher	Western front Imperial Defense
commander
List of commanders	Commanders

The 26th Flak Division was a major combat unit of the German Air Force in World War II .

history

The staff of the 26th Flak Division was set up in Munich at the beginning of May 1944 from the 4th Flak Brigade. The headquarters of the division became Grünwald .

At the time of its establishment, the 26th Flak Division also took over the command area of its predecessor, the 4th Flak Brigade, and thus the defense of the airspace of southern Bavaria , Innsbruck and Salzburg , as well as the defense around Oberpfaffenhofen and Erding . The defense area was divided into five regiments with different division strengths. The subordination took place under Luftgau VII. In the period from the beginning of December 1944 to the end of February 1945, 1,050 air force helpers - students and 142 air force helpers - apprentices were released from the division.

Shortly before the end of the war, the 21st Flak Brigade had to be disbanded and a large part of the flaks were assigned to the division. In March / April 1945 preparations were made to use the flaks (8.8 cm flak) against ground targets. Until the conquest of Munich at the end of April 1945, the division offered resistance, but was ordered to disband beforehand. Parts of the division fought until the end of the war, then went into American captivity and the division was disbanded.

For the division, the case files for the court martial are archived by the commanding officer.

Commanders

Colonel Ernst Uhl : from the establishment to the end of June 1944
Lieutenant General Rudolf Eibenstein : from July 1944 until the end of the war

structure

The breakdown for December 1944 was:

Flak Regiment 19 (Flak Group Munich-North)
- Heavy Flak Department 384 (Flak subgroup Munich-Southwest)
- Heavy Flak Department 457 (Flak Subgroup Munich-Northeast)
- Heavy Flak Department 459 (Flak subgroup Munich-Northwest)
Flak Regiment 55 (Flak Group Munich-South)
- Heavy Flak Department 571 (Flak Subgroup Munich Southeast)
Flak-Regiment 115 (Flak-Gruppe Augsburg ) formed from the staff of Flakscheinwerfer-Regiment 2
- Heavy Flak Department 136 (Flak sub-group Augsburg-Mitte)
- Heavy Flak Department 453 (Flak sub-group Augsburg-Nord)
- Light Flak Department 738 (Flak sub-group barracks, later Oettingen / Lechfeld )
Flak Regiment 148 (Flak Group Innsbruck), reorganized in August 1944
- Heavy Flak Division 577
- Light Flak Division 768
Flak-Regiment 93 (Flak-Gruppe Nürnberg ), from September 1944 from the 21st Flak Brigade
- Heavy Flak Department 484 (without staff)
- Heavy Flak-Division 522 (Flak-Untergruppe Platnersberg )
- Heavy Flak Division 634
- Heavy Flak Department 682 (new)
- Light Flak Division 951
Flak searchlight regiment 8 (Munich)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939–1945: Edited on the basis of documents from the Federal Military Archive . Biblio Verlag, 1980, ISBN 978-3-7648-1111-2 , p. 464 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Georg Tessin: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939-1945: Edited on the basis of documents from the Federal Military Archive . Biblio Verlag, 1980, ISBN 978-3-7648-1111-2 , p. 475 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 346 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).
↑ Steven J. Zaloga: Defense of the Third Reich 1941–45 . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-84908-594-6 , pp. 13 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).
↑ Ludwig Schätz: Student soldiers: the history of the air force helpers in World War II . Thesen Verlag, 1972, ISBN 978-3-7677-0012-3 , p. 103 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).
^ Rüdiger von Reichert: When the Americans came: End of the war in 1945 in the Würmtal . Kirchheim, 2004, ISBN 978-3-87410-101-1 , pp. 52 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).
↑ ^a ^b Franz Thomas, Günter Wegmann: The knight's cross bearers of the German Wehrmacht 1939–1945 . Biblio-Verl., 1991, ISBN 978-3-7648-1797-8 , pp. 316 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).
↑ Heinz Boberach: Reich central authorities, regional authorities and scientific universities for the ten West German states and Berlin . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-095039-7 , p. 237 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).
^ Samuel W. Mitcham : German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 345 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).

[:0-1] Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939–1945: Edited on the basis of documents from the Federal Military Archive . Biblio Verlag, 1980, ISBN 978-3-7648-1111-2 , p. 464 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).

[:1-2] Georg Tessin: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939-1945: Edited on the basis of documents from the Federal Military Archive . Biblio Verlag, 1980, ISBN 978-3-7648-1111-2 , p. 475 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).

[:3-3] Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 346 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).

[4] Steven J. Zaloga: Defense of the Third Reich 1941–45 . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-84908-594-6 , pp. 13 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).

[5] Ludwig Schätz: Student soldiers: the history of the air force helpers in World War II . Thesen Verlag, 1972, ISBN 978-3-7677-0012-3 , p. 103 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).

[6] Rüdiger von Reichert: When the Americans came: End of the war in 1945 in the Würmtal . Kirchheim, 2004, ISBN 978-3-87410-101-1 , pp. 52 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).

[:2-7] Franz Thomas, Günter Wegmann: The knight's cross bearers of the German Wehrmacht 1939–1945 . Biblio-Verl., 1991, ISBN 978-3-7648-1797-8 , pp. 316 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).

[8] Heinz Boberach: Reich central authorities, regional authorities and scientific universities for the ten West German states and Berlin . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-095039-7 , p. 237 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).

[9] Samuel W. Mitcham : German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 345 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).