Anti-aircraft artillery
The anti-aircraft artillery ( anti- aircraft artillery , also written anti-aircraft artillery ) was a branch of arms that was first set up in the First World War and whose units in the German Wehrmacht were subordinate to the Luftwaffe . Her weapon color was crimson . Besides existed in the army of the Wehrmacht Army anti-aircraft artillery and the Navy , the Marine Flak units.
history
The anti-aircraft cartillery was one of the branches of service that the German Reich was not allowed to set up under the Treaty of Versailles . When rearmament began in the German Reich (1933–1945) , the department of the Reichswehr Ministry, which had previously been disguised as a driving department, was established in the Air Force in 1935 .
During the Second World War , young people were used as flak helpers in Germany .
school
The largest anti-aircraft artillery school, FAS I, was located in Rerik on the Wustrow peninsula . The Flakartillery School II was also located on the Baltic Sea in Stolpmünde .
Commanders
- Kurt Andersen , Commander of the FAS II Stolpmünde
- Otto Deßloch , General of the Flak Artillery from 1942
- Günther Rüdel , inspector of the anti-aircraft artillery and air defense
- Ludwig von Schröder , general of the anti-aircraft cartillery
- Hubert Weise , general of the anti-aircraft cartillery from 1939
- Colonel Laicher (founder of the Air Force Sports Club Hamburg )
Famous flak soldiers
- Karl Carstens , later Federal President
- Richard Kolb , regimental commander, knight's cross bearer , old fighter of the National Socialists
- Walter Kolb , later Lord Mayor of Frankfurt
- Ernst Kreuder , writer
- Helmut Schmidt , battery chief, later Federal Chancellor
Monuments
In Berlin-Steglitz there is a memorial for those who fell in the anti-aircraft cartillery from both World Wars in 1933 and 1957.