IV. Flak Corps

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The IV. Flak Corps was a major combat unit of the German Air Force in World War II . Its management staff was already set up in Breslau by order of June 23, 1944 , but was withdrawn again in mid-August 1944 for reasons unknown. On September 6, 1944, the office of the Commandant of the West Air Defense was briefly set up , and on September 12, 1944, it was renamed the General Command of the IV Flak Corps. The first commandant was general of the anti-aircraft cartillery Otto Wilhelm von Renz . The corps itself was to take over the command of all flak forces in the area of Air Fleet 1 in the future . For an unrecognizable reason, however, the General Staff was dissolved again in mid-August 1944.

Realignment

By order of September 12, 1944, the Air Defense Command West , which had been established a few weeks earlier and was headed by General der Flieger Rudolf Bogatsch , was renamed into the new General Staff of the IV Flak Corps. Bogatsch himself remained commanding general of the corps even after the change of name . He had his command post in Wiesbaden (from October 1944 in Edenkoben ) and there took over the command of all flak forces from the Moselle to the Swiss border. The IV. Flak Corps was subordinate to Luftflotte 1 in cooperation with Army Group G under the command of the General of the Panzer Force Hermann Balck . On December 6, 1944, the IV Flak Corps was divided as follows:

• 9th Flak Division ,
• 13th Flak Division and the
• 28th Flak Division .

In March 1945, in the meantime the command post of the General Staff had been relocated to the Darmstadt area, the IV. Flak Corps was then also subordinated to the 21st Flak Division and the 19th Flak Brigade , which, however, soon became subordinate to the American troops was smashed. With the last surviving structure from April 1945, the corps comprised the following units:

• 9th Flak Division,
• 13th Flak Division,
• 21st Flak Division ,
• 26th Flak Division and finally the
• 28th Flak Division.

On 3 May 1945, the headquarters of the General Staff of the IV. Flak Corps due to the war situation in was Wessling in Upper Bavaria , where he on this day in American prisoner of war came.

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 , pp. 31, 32.