Alfons Luczny

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Alfons Luczny (born June 4, 1894 in Katscher ; † August 12, 1985 in Einbeck ) was a German Lieutenant General in the Air Force in World War II .

Life

Early years and World War I

Luczny joined the field artillery regiment "von Clausewitz" (1st Upper Silesian) No. 21 of the Prussian Army in Neisse on September 12, 1913 as a squire . On June 19, 1914 he was promoted to ensign and on August 6, 1914 to lieutenant . After the beginning of the First World War , Luczny fought as a battery leader on the Western Front, first at Neufchâteau , and later on the Maas and the Marne . In September the regiment then went into trench warfare. On March 14, 1915, Luczny was transferred to the 4th Upper Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 63 , where he served as platoon and battalion leader until early January 1917 . Luczny then returned to his regular regiment on January 10, 1917, where he had been deployed as a battery officer and leader beyond the end of the war and in the meantime had been promoted to first lieutenant on April 18, 1918 .

Interwar years

After the war and his return to the garrison , his regiment was demobilized and disbanded on September 1, 1919. Luczny then joined the Voluntary Field Artillery Regiment 21, with which he was deployed at the Eastern Border Guard in Silesia . On December 31, 1920 Luczny arbitration under presentation of the character as a captain from the military and stepped over to the police. Luczny had already joined this group on November 30, 1920, while his previous employment was on leave. There he was appointed lieutenant police on November 30, 1920 and until July 1923 assigned to the voting police of Upper Silesia. During his service there, Luczny was promoted to police captain on February 1, 1921. From July 9, 1923 to the end of May 1935, Luczny worked for the security police in Opole , where he was promoted to police major on November 6, 1933 .

On June 1, 1935, Luczny joined the Air Force , while being appointed major , where he was employed as an officer for special use in the Reich Ministry of Aviation until the end of September 1935 . Here he was assigned to the anti-aircraft weapon. On October 1, 1935, he was assigned to the Flak Regiment 1 as a battery officer , and on October 1, 1936, he was appointed Commander of the I. Department. Luczny stayed in this position until the end of June 1938, during which time he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on March 1, 1937 .

Second World War

On July 1, 1938, Luczny was appointed commander of Flak Regiment 13 in Leipzig . The regiment was responsible for anti-aircraft protection in the greater Leipzig- Halle area . On October 29, 1939, Luczny, who had been promoted to colonel on March 1, 1939, resigned from this regiment and was appointed commander of Flak Regiment 33 on the following day, October 30, 1939. This regiment was subject to the flak protection of Halle (Saale) - Leuna under Luczny's command . Luczny resigned from this regiment on May 9, 1940 and was appointed commander of Flak Regiment 3 on May 10, 1940. The flak regiment took over the anti-aircraft protection of the Weimar area . However, Luczny only commanded this regiment until June 10, 1940.

On June 11, 1940, until July 28, 1940, he took over the fate of Flak Regiment 6 with anti-aircraft protection tasks in the Hamburg area . On July 29, 1940, he was appointed commander of the Flak Headlight Brigade I , which he commanded until the end of January 1942. However, other sources cite this as August 10, 1941.

Promoted to major general on February 1, 1942 , Luczny was appointed General of the Air Force Channel Islands , formerly the 11th Flak Brigade , whose function he held until the end of September 1943. Other sources name his end of service as General of the Channel Islands at the beginning of September 1943. On October 1, 1943, Luczny was appointed commander of the 2nd Flak Division , which was responsible for the anti- aircraft protection of the Leipzig - Halle - Zeitz area . Here he was promoted to Lieutenant General on February 1, 1944 and awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on June 9, 1944 , after having received the German Cross in Gold on March 29, 1944 . In mid-November 1944, Luczny resigned from his commanding post and transferred to the Führerreserve . On December 30, 1944, he was appointed chief of the travel staff at the head of the Wehrmacht motor vehicle system in the Wehrmacht High Command , which he headed until the end of the war.

On May 8, 1945, Luczny was taken prisoner by the US and was transferred from there to the Soviet Union on December 25, 1945 . On October 9, 1955, he was released from prisoner-of-war camp 5110/48 Woikowo .

literature

• Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935-1945. Volume 2 Habermehl-Nuber. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1991, ISBN 3-7648-1701-1 , p. 325 f.
• Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German flak cartillery 1935–1945. Your major formations and regiments. 1st edition, VDM Verlag Heinz Nickel Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German anti-aircraft cartillery 1935–1945: Your major units and regiments. 1st edition, VDM Verlag Heinz Nickel Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 , p. 209.
2. ^ Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German anti-aircraft cartillery 1935-1945: Your large units and regiments. 1st edition, VDM Verlag Heinz Nickel Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 , p. 240.
3. ^ Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German anti-aircraft cartillery 1935-1945: Your large units and regiments. 1st edition, VDM Verlag Heinz Nickel Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 , p. 171.
4. ^ Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German anti-aircraft cartillery 1935-1945: Your large units and regiments. 1st edition, VDM Verlag Heinz Nickel Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 , p. 177.
5. ^ Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German anti-aircraft cartillery 1935-1945: Your large units and regiments. 1st edition, VDM Verlag Heinz Nickel Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 , p. 49.
6. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd edition, Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 516.
7. ↑ Manfred Zeidler: Stalin Justice contra Nazi crimes. The war crimes trials against German prisoners of war in the USSR in 1943–1952. State of knowledge and research problems. Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism, Dresden 1996. ISBN 3-93164-808-7 , p. 70 "Transport list for returnees from October 1955 with those released from the Vojkovo general camp."