31st Flak Division

31st Flak Division
active	January 1945 to May 1945
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	air force
Branch of service	Flak
Type	division
Butcher	Imperial Defense
commander
Important ; commanders	Major General Herbert Giese

The 31st Flak Division was a major unit of the German Air Force in World War II .

history

The 31st Flak Division was set up from the beginning of 1945 in the course of the conversion of Flak Brigades into Flak Divisions from the staff of the previous 2nd Flak Brigade . The task was air security in the Magdeburg - Bielefeld region .

From the time it was set up until his capture on April 20, 1945, Colonel and later Major General Herbert Giese was the division's commanding officer. Subsequently, until the end of the war, Colonel Herbert Röhler, formerly commander of the 1st Flak Brigade , took over command.

structure

Flak Regiment 52 (Magdeburg) (Flak Group Magdeburg)
Flak Regiment 143 ( Dessau ) (Flak Group Dessau)
Flak Headlight Regiment 108 (Magdeburg)
Luftnachrichten-Bataillon 162 (Dessau), later stationed near Bielefeld

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b 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. 348 ( google.de [accessed November 30, 2019]).
^ Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939–1945: The land forces: name associations . Biblio-Verl., 1980, ISBN 978-3-7648-0941-6 , pp. 265 ( google.de [accessed November 30, 2019]).
^ Georg Tessin: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in the Second World War 1939 - 1945: The Land Forces: Name associations . Biblio-Verl., 1980, ISBN 978-3-7648-0941-6 , pp. 263 ( google.de [accessed November 30, 2019]).

[:0-1] 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. 348 ( google.de [accessed November 30, 2019]).

[2] Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939–1945: The land forces: name associations . Biblio-Verl., 1980, ISBN 978-3-7648-0941-6 , pp. 265 ( google.de [accessed November 30, 2019]).

[3] Georg Tessin: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in the Second World War 1939 - 1945: The Land Forces: Name associations . Biblio-Verl., 1980, ISBN 978-3-7648-0941-6 , pp. 263 ( google.de [accessed November 30, 2019]).