Flak Headlight Brigade II

The Flak-Headlight Brigade II was a brigade-strength combat unit of the Luftwaffe in World War II .

Mission history

The brigade was set up in September 1940 with the command post in Stade . It was used in northern Germany for night hunting in the course of light night hunting . It was not possible to determine which anti-aircraft regiments were under her control. The brigade was assigned to the 1st Night Hunting Division .

On August 1, 1941, as part of the restructuring of the 1. Nachtjagd-Division in the XII. Fliegerkorps converted the brigade and received the designation and was given the designation 2. Flakscheinwerfer-Division .

commander

Rank	Surname	date
Colonel	Heino von Rantzau	December 5, 1940 to August 10, 1941

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in the Second World War 1939–1945: Bd. The Land Forces 1-5 . Mittler, 1965, p. 138 ( google.de [accessed March 7, 2020]).
↑ Karl Otto Hoffmann: Ln- the history of the air news unit. -: T.1. The flight reporting and jogging control service 1939-1945 . Neckargemünd Vowinckel, 1973, p. 36 ( google.de [accessed March 7, 2020]).
^ Franz Thomas, Günter Wegmann: The knight's cross bearers of the German Wehrmacht 1939–1945 . Biblio-Verl., 1991, ISBN 978-3-7648-1797-8 , pp. 124 ( google.de [accessed March 7, 2020]).

[:0-1] A ^b ^c Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in the Second World War 1939–1945: Bd. The Land Forces 1-5 . Mittler, 1965, p. 138 ( google.de [accessed March 7, 2020]).

[2] Karl Otto Hoffmann: Ln- the history of the air news unit. -: T.1. The flight reporting and jogging control service 1939-1945 . Neckargemünd Vowinckel, 1973, p. 36 ( google.de [accessed March 7, 2020]).

[3] Franz Thomas, Günter Wegmann: The knight's cross bearers of the German Wehrmacht 1939–1945 . Biblio-Verl., 1991, ISBN 978-3-7648-1797-8 , pp. 124 ( google.de [accessed March 7, 2020]).