Management body front u. Military Transport Air Force (NVA)

Management body front u. Military Transport Air Force (FO FMTFK)
National emblem from 1973
active	December 1, 1981 to October 2, 1990
Country	GDR
Armed forces	National Peoples Army
Armed forces	Air Force
Type	Large association
Insinuation	LSK / LV command
Command staff FO FMTFK (LSK / LV)	Barnim barracks Strausberg
Web presence	FO FMTFK
insignia
Identification symbol	X

Su-22 of the FO FMTFK

The management body of the front u. Military Transport Air Force (FO FMTFK) was a large association of the air forces (LSK) of the East German NVA and was directly subordinate to the LSK / LV command.

assignment

The order of the FO FMTFK was derived from the overall order of the NVA LSK and consisted of close air support for the other armed forces, "airborne reconnaissance" and the provision of air transport capacity.

history

From December 1981, a command body of the front and army aviation forces (FOFAFK) was set up at the LSK / LV command , which was operational in 1982 and was stationed together with the LSK / LV command in the area of ​​the Barnim barracks in Strausberg (Eggersdorf).

From 1984 the FOFAFK was given the final designation of the Commanding Body Front and Military Transport Air Force (FOFMTFK) after the two combat helicopter squadrons KHG-3 and KHG-5 had been handed over to the military district commands MB-III and MB-V of the land forces.

As a staff, the command body was primarily responsible for training front-line, army and transport aviation forces, had no command in the event of a defense and, according to its own understanding, was not considered to be the command of a division.

The management body had a command point in the basement of its headquarters building, which was manned by a crew on duty on a 24-hour basis, in order to conduct daily flight service and training.

When higher levels of combat readiness were triggered (war or maneuvering), the command body moved parts of the staff to the Ranzig / Beeskow bunker and moved to its command post 2 . According to Directive 1/85, the JBG-37, JBG-77, MFG-28, TAFS-47, TAFS-87 were simultaneously relocated under Soviet orders from the 16th Air Army. From the remaining transport air force, the management body military transport air force Ranzig / Besskow was formed. This involved additional subordination of the helicopter squadron 16 from the border troops and the helicopter training squadron 35 in Briest from the OHS LSK / LV to the new FOMTFK.

With the decommissioning of the NVA in October 1990, the division command was dissolved. The legal successor was the 5th Air Force Division of the Bundeswehr .

Division commanders FO FMTFK

Rank, name	period of service	comment
Colonel Wolfgang Büttner	1981-1983
Colonel Klaus Zimmermann	IV / 1983	entrusted with the leadership
Colonel Klaus Zimmermann	1984-1989	from April 1, 1987 Major General
Colonel Ralf Wukasch	1990

See also: List of Generals of the NVA Air Force

Subordinate units, units and units

The following troops, units and facilities were directly subordinate to the FO FMTFK.

• Jagdbombenfliegergeschwader 37 (JBG-37) Klement Gottwald, Drewitz
  • Fliegertechnisches Bataillon 37 (FTB-37), Drewitz
  • Information and Air Traffic Control Battalion 37 (NFB-37), Drewitz
  • Parts of the 37 intelligence and air traffic control battalion (FuTK / NFB-37), Striesow
• Jagdbombenfliegergeschwader 77 (JBG-77) Gebhardt Leberecht von Blücher, Laage
  • Aviation Technical Battalion 77 (FTB-77), Laage
  • Intelligence and Air Traffic Control Battalion 77 (NFB-77), Laage
• Marinefliegergeschwader 28 (MFG-28) Paul Wieczorek, Laage
  • Aviation Technical Battalion 28 (FTB-28), Laage
  • 28th Intelligence and Air Traffic Control Battalion (NFB-28), Laage
  • Parts of the 28th Intelligence and Air Traffic Control Battalion (FuTK / NFB-28), hall
• Oxygen extraction and supply facility 77 (SGVE-77), Laage
• Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron 47 (TAFS-47), Preschen
• Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron 87 (TAFS-87), Preschen
• Transport Fliegerstaffel 24 (TFS-24), Dresden-Klotzsche
  • Aviation Technical Battalion 24 (FTB-24), Dresden-Klotzsche
• Transport helicopter squadron 34 (THG-34) Werner Seelenbinder, Brandenburg-Briest
  • Aviation Technical Battalion 34 (FTB-34), Brandenburg-Briest
• Liaison Squadron 14 (VS-14), Strausberg
  • Aviation Technical Battalion 14 (FTB-14), Strausberg

literature

• Wilfried Copenhagen : The Air Force of the NVA. Motorbuch Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-613-02235-4 .
• Author collective (ed.): Lutz Freundt: MiG, Mi, Su & Co. 1st edition. AeroLit, 2002, ISBN 3-935525-07-9 .
• Torsten Diedrich (publisher / worker on behalf of the Military History Research Office ): Handbook of the armed organs of the GDR. Weltbild, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-8289-0555-2 .
• Working group history of the LSK / LV Strausberg (Hrsg.): Experienced and created - Contributions to the history of the air forces of the air defense of the National People's Army of the GDR.

Web links

Commons : Air Forces / Air Defense of the National People's Army  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Overview of the GDR air forces at www.ddr-luftwaffe.de
• Overview of the GDR air forces at www.lsklv-ddr.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Fliegergeschichten - From take-off to landing", facts and experiences - written down by members of the NVA aviation forces, Strausberg 2013, original edition (pp. 18–19): ISBN 978-3-9814822-3-2 , Strausberg, Berlin, 2013

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 37.7 "  N , 13 ° 49 ′ 53.2"  E