Air defense command East Friesland

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The Ostfriesland Air Defense Command was a command staff at the brigade level of the Air Force during World War II . It was set up on October 29, 1940 by converting the regimental staff of Flak Regiment 26 . Tactically, the anti-aircraft command was subordinate to the Luftgaukommando XI Hanover , with the anti-aircraft command being responsible for the operational management of the anti-aircraft units stationed in this area. Their primary task was the air defense of the air bases in East Frisia against British air raids. This also included the flak units on the East Frisian islands . The sole commanding officer was Colonel Hans-Jürgen von Witzendorff with a command post in Bremen . At the end of June 1940, the following flak forces were subordinate to him:

  • Reserve Flak Division 182: as Flak subgroup Vegesack
  • I. Department of Flak Regiment 43: as Flak subgroup Stedingen
  • Reserve Flak Division 224: as Flak subgroup Blockland
  • I. Department of Flak Regiment 26: as Flak subgroup Lesum
  • Reserve Flak Division 262: as Flak subgroup Vahr
  • I. Department of Flak Regiment 52: as Flak Untergruppe Oberweser
  • Reserve Flak Division 265: as Flak subgroup Vieland
  • I. Department of the Flak Training Regiment: as Flak subgroup Brinkum
  • Reserve Flaka Division 606: as Flak subgroup Delmenhorst

On January 10, 1941, the command staff was named 8th Flak Brigade .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German anti-aircraft cartillery 1935-1945: Your large units and regiments . 1st edition. VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 , p. 173 .