5th Flak Brigade (E.Tr.)

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The 5th Flak Brigade (E.Tr.) was a brigade-strength combat unit of the Luftwaffe in World War II . The brigade staff was set up on October 8, 1944 by converting the brigade staff of the 5th Flak Brigade . The sole commanding officer of the brigade was Colonel Oskar Baur . The E.Tr. resulted from the fact that the brigade staff with command post in Berlin-Lankwitz was responsible for the rail transport protection (E.Tr.).

Mission history

The primary task of the brigade staff was to ward off enemy low-flying attacks on the Wehrmacht's rail transport routes. After the Allied landing in Normandy , the number of such attacks , mainly carried out by fighter bombers , increased considerably, so that a central management of the previously loosely used railway transport protection battery was deemed necessary. In the future, the brigade staff could react independently and quickly to acute threats and initiate the necessary protective measures in the occupied territories and in Germany. However, the anti-aircraft brigade not only combined anti-aircraft units for rail transport, but also the anti-aircraft units responsible for inland waterways, which had been entrusted with the air protection of river and inland sea ships. On November 1, 1944, the brigade staff was under the control

• Flak Regiment 50 (E.Tr.)
• Flak Regiment 159 (E.Tr.) and the
• Flak Regiment 255 (E.Tr.)

However, the brigade's firepower was only 50 light anti-aircraft batteries . In view of the increased tasks of transport air protection from spring 1945, the conversion of the brigade staff into the divisional staff of the 30th Flak Division (E.Tr.) was ordered, which was carried out on April 3, 1945. The original 50 anti-aircraft batteries had already been increased to 90.

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. 137-138 .