27th Flak Division

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The 27th Flak Division was a major combat unit of the German Air Force in World War II .

history

Originating from the conversion of the former 11th Flak Brigade on September 19, 1944 with a command post in Königsberg ( East Prussia ) under the command of Colonel Alexander Nieper, the division was responsible for securing the airspace (later also ground combat) in the following areas. On November 1, 1944, under its new commandant Lieutenant General Walter Kathmann, it was structured as follows:

• Flak Regiment 62 West Prussia- Danzig , (only until December 1944)
  • mixed flaka division 114
  • mixed flaka division 315
  • mixed flaka division 316 and
  • mixed flaka division 317
• Flak Regiment 81 East Prussia-Königsberg,
  • mixed flak division 172
  • mixed flaka division 214
  • heavy flak division 217
  • heavy railway flak department 872 E
  • light flak division 833
  • Flak headlights department 348
  • Flak headlights department 378
• Flak regiment 121 with regimental staff in Bromberg
  • heavy flak division 213
  • heavy flak division 633
• Flakbrigade 16 (only for November 1944)
• Flak Regiment 6 (from January 13, 1945)

At the beginning of January 1945, the division was assigned the operational command of all anti-aircraft units located in the area of ​​the 3rd Panzer Army. The Soviet attack on East Prussia began on January 14, 1945 . At that time, their subordinate regiments were in the Gaudenz - Vistula estuary section . However, the command staff of the 27th Flak Division was released from this task on January 31, 1945 and transferred to Stargard , where it had to wait for new orders as a reserve. Finally, the command staff was installed in the greater Szczecin area. Here he should take over the leadership of the flak forces in the area Fürstenberg - Oder mouth. In February 1945 there was a last change at the top of the division. On February 10, 1945, Lieutenant General Walter von Hippel took over command , who held leadership until the end of the war. At the beginning of April 1945, the division was still subordinate to the following units:

• 6th Flak Brigade
  • Flaksturmregiment 6
  • Flaksturmregiment 21
  • Flak searchlight regiment 84 and that
  • Flak searchlight regiment 171 (without units)

and the

• 15th Flak Brigade
  • Anti-aircraft regiment 138
  • Flak Regiment 145 with the
  • Herzberg Flak Regiment. (However, there is an ambiguity here, since the regimental staff was disbanded on April 6, 1945)
    • mixed flaka department (Prenzlau)
    • Staff of the heavy flak division 1106

The last division of the division on April 27, 1945 with the command post in Züsedom still comprised 89 heavy and 25 medium and light batteries .

Use in the last days of the war and whereabouts of the units

• Command staff: in the Stettin area on May 4, 1945 in Soviet captivity.

• 6th Flak Brigade
  • Flaksturmregiment 6: Remnants possibly in the last days of the war in May 1945 as an artillery unit with the 4th SS-Police-Panzergrenadier-Division .
  • Flaksturmregiment 21: not known.
  • Flak searchlight regiment 84: not known.
  • Flak searchlight regiment 171 (renamed Flak-Regiment 171 on April 6, 1945): not known.

• 15th Flak Brigade
  • Flak regiment 138: smashed.
  • Flak Regiment 145: smashed, with a few being taken into American captivity, and others. a. the commander succeeded.
  • Herzberg Flak Regiment: unknown because the regimental staff was disbanded on April 6, 1945. Nothing is known about the whereabouts of their two departments. The extent to which the breakdown figures were still to be regarded as realistic must remain unclear on the basis of the facts mentioned.

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. 278 .
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. 295, 296 .
3. ^ Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German flak cartillery 1935-1945. Your major formations and regiments . VDM, Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 , p. 334 .
4. ^ Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German flak cartillery 1935-1945. Your major formations and regiments . VDM, Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 , p. 198 .
5. ^ Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German flak cartillery 1935-1945. Your major formations and regiments . VDM, Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 , p. 140, 153, 394 .