28th Flak Division

The 28th Flak Division was a major combat unit of the German Air Force in World War II .

history

The division was formed from the staff of the former 9th Flak Brigade in Stuttgart in October 1944 .

The division's command post was moved to Bad Herrenalb .

The division had the task of air defense in Baden-Württemberg and was later assigned to Luftgau VII, and from December 1944 subordinated to the IV Flak Corps . Before that, the division served from November together with the 10th and 13th Flak Divisions as support for the 19th Army in Alsace .

In March / April 1945 the combat units of the 13th Flak Division were integrated into the division.

On May 5, 1945, the soldiers surrendered to the Western Allies.

Colonel Hans-Jürgen Heckmanns : from the installation until November 24, 1944
Colonel / Major General Kurt von Ludwig : November 25, 1944 until the end of the war

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^ ^A ^b Walter Vetter, Leif Geiges: Freiburg in Trümmern, 1944-1952: an image and text documentation . Rombach, 1984, p. 39 ( google.de [accessed December 1, 2019]).
^ Georg Tessin , Brün Meyer, Germany (West) Military Archives, Working Group for Defense Research: Associations and Troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in the Second World War 1939–1945: The Land Forces 1-5 . Mittler, 1977, p. 287 ( google.de [accessed December 1, 2019]).