Higher in command of the anti-aircraft artillery in Luftkreis IV

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The higher commander of the anti-aircraft cartillery in Luftkreis IV was a service in brigade strength of the Luftwaffe in the 1930s. The brigade staff was set up on October 1, 1935 with a command post in Münster . The sole commanding officer was the colonel and later major general Johannes Lentzsch . As a higher commander and troop superior, he was responsible for the operational management of the flak forces in the greater Westphalia - Ruhr area - Rhineland - Rhine-Main area - Manheim area . The following were subordinated to him on 1 October 1935 Flak - regiments :

• Flak Regiment 4 in the Dortmund area
• Flak Regiment 7 in the Wolfenbüttel area
• Flak Regiment 9 in the Münster area

By October 1, 1937, the number of subordinate flak units rose sharply, so that the following units were subordinate to this point in time:

• Flak Regiment 04 in the Dortmund area
• Flak Regiment 14 in the Lüdenscheid - Bonn area
• Flak Regiment 24 in the Iserlohn - Menden area
• Flak Regiment 29 in the Frankfurt am Main area
• Flak Regiment 24 in the Münster area
• Flak Regiment 44 in the Essen area
• Flak Regiment 49 in the Mannheim area
• Flak Regiment 54 in the Duisburg area
• Flak Regiment 74 in the Cologne area

On June 30, 1938, the agency was closed due to structural changes. The subordinate anti-aircraft regiments were assigned to other brigade staffs.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German flak cartillery 1935-1945. Your major formations and regiments . VDM, Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 , p. 180-181 .