Pilot Africa

Fliegerführer Afrika was the name of a service position or a command authority at brigade level of the German Air Force in World War II .

history

The command authority of the "Fliegerführer Afrika" was set up in February 1941 shortly after the German Africa Corps (DAK) in Luftgau VII for use in the Africa campaign and led the parts of the X. Fliegerkorps deployed from African soil and, from the end of 1941, the Luftflotte 2 , whose main task was the tactical air support of the ground fighting of the DAK or the Panzer Group and later Panzer Army Africa . Different squadrons or individual groups of different branches of arms and the corresponding support units were subordinate to the pilot . The counterpart to this on the British side was the so-called Desert Air Force . During the Tunisian campaign , the staff of the Fliegerführer Afrika was converted to the Fliegerkorps Tunis in February 1943 .

Subordinate associations

June 22, 1941 (Libya) Africa campaign
	III./Lehrgeschwader 1 I./Sturzkampfgeschwader 1 II./Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 III./Zerstörergeschwader 26 I./Jagdgeschwader 27	7./Kampfgeschwader 26 1./Nachtjagdgeschwader 3 1. (F) / 123 Desert Emergency Squadron Africa Courier Squadron Africa
June 28, 1942 (Libya, Egypt) Africa campaign
	Staff, I., II. And III./Sturzkampfgeschwader 3 I. Staff, II. And III./Jagdgeschwader 27 III./Jagdgeschwader 53 10. (Jabo) / Jagdgeschwader 27 10. (Jabo) / Jagdgeschwader 53	12./Lehrgeschwader 1 desert emergency squadron 1 courier squadron Africa Luftgaustab z. b. V. Africa Air Force News Regiment Africa

Pilot leader

• Lieutenant General Stefan Fröhlich - February 1941 to April 1942 (until the arrival of Fröhlich and his staff, Lieutenant Colonel Martin Harlinghausen held the function provisionally)
• Lieutenant General Otto Hoffmann von Waldau - April 12 to August 31, 1942
• Major General Hans Seidemann - August 1942 to February 1943 (then Commanding General of the Tunis Air Corps)

literature

• Karl Gundelach: The German Air Force in the Mediterranean 1940-1945. (2 volumes) Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-8204-6641-X .

Web links

Commons : Fliegerführer Afrika  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Finding aid for inventory RL 8 (troop command staffs and command posts of the air force 1938–1945) in the Federal Archives
• Subordinate associations at the time of the Second Battle of El Alamein (October 1942) on niehorster.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leo Niehorster : German Airforce, Order of Battle, Air Commander Africa June 22, 1941 , accessed on May 6, 2015
2. ^ Leo Niehorster: Order of Battle, 2nd Air Fleet, Air Commander Africa June 28, 1942 , accessed on May 6, 2015