General of aviation training

General der Fliegerausbbildung (Gen.d.Fl.Ausb.) Was an office and official title within the German Air Force .

The general of the aviation training emerged on July 27, 1943 from the dissolved department chief of the training system of the air force (chief AW) and was subordinate to the chief of the general staff of the air force. The chief of training of the air force was formed in February 1939 to relieve the general staff of the air force and was subordinate to the general inspector of the air force, from April 1940 to the chief of the air force. He was given the post and disciplinary powers of a commanding general . At the end of March 1945 the general of the pilot training was renamed the commanding general of the pilot training without changing the subordination. The flying school divisions assigned to the department were initially also referred to as flying training divisions.

The general of aviation training was responsible for the aviation training of the air force.

Officers in this position

Head of Air Force Training:

General der Flieger Bernhard Kühl : June 1940 to July 1943

Commander of the flying schools:

Major General Werner Kreipe : July 1943 to July 31, 1944
Lieutenant General Gerd von Massow : August 1944 until the end of the war

Outline February 1945

Flieger-Schul-Division Göppingen with 15 pilot schools A and 6 pilot schools B
Flieger-Schul-Division (training battalion only), disbanded in February 1945 and distributed to the other divisions
Flieger-Schul-Division Prague with 3 battle squadrons
Flieger-Schul-Division Döberitz - Elsgrund with 6 fighter squadrons, a destroyer squadron and a night fighter squadron

Higher Commander of the Dresden Air War Schools

Higher Commander of the Aviation Technical Schools in Berlin

Web links

Training departments in the Reich Aviation Ministry on the EHRI portal from the Federal Archives

literature

Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 14. The Land Forces. Name associations. The air force. Flying bandages. Flak deployment in the Reich 1943–1945 . Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1980, ISBN 3-7648-1111-0 , p. 269 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Chief of Training / General of the Aviation Training (inventory) - German Digital Library. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
↑ Horst Boog: The German Air Force Command, 1933-1945: Management Problems, Top Structure, General Staff Training . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1982, ISBN 978-3-421-01905-9 , pp. 334 ( google.de [accessed June 30, 2020]).

[:0-1] Chief of Training / General of the Aviation Training (inventory) - German Digital Library. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .

[2] Horst Boog: The German Air Force Command, 1933-1945: Management Problems, Top Structure, General Staff Training . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1982, ISBN 978-3-421-01905-9 , pp. 334 ( google.de [accessed June 30, 2020]).