German Bight Fighter Pilot

Colonel Johann Schalk (center) in conversation with Lieutenant Colonel Theodor Rossiwall. (Photo from June 1940)

The German Bight Fighter Pilot was a service in the German Air Force during the Second World War . The office was budgeted in December 1939 with the command post in Jever , and from 1943 onwards in Stade . With effect from December 1, 1943, the agency was renamed Jagdfliegerführer 2 . The fighter pilot's leader in the German Bight achieved its first significance with the aerial battle over the German Bight on December 18, 1939. The primary task of the fighter pilot consisted in the operational and tactical leadership of the fighter pilot's associations stationed in his area. Mostly this was a fighter squadron. He also informed his superior departments about grievances, losses, successes as well as incoming enemy forces, weather conditions or made requests for personnel and / or replacement machines.

At the beginning of the Western campaign on 10 May 1940 was Fighter Leader German Bight of the 2nd Air Fleet assumed. The II. And IV. Groups of Jagdgeschwader 2 , I. (Jagd-) Gruppe of Lehrgeschwader 2 and II. (J) / 186, all equipped with the Messerschmitt Bf 109 , were available to him for his task .

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Major general	Karl-August Schumacher	December 12, 1939 to July 31, 1941
Lieutenant General	Werner Junck	August 1, 1941 to December 31, 1941
Colonel	Friedrich Vollbracht (representation)	January 1942
Lieutenant General	Werner Junck	February 1, 1942 to March 31, 1942
Major general	Hermann Frommherz	April 1, 1942 to September 30, 1942
Colonel	Karl Hentschel	August 17, 1942 to October 1, 1943
Colonel	Johann Schalk	October 1, 1943 until conversion

Web links

• Ernst Stilla: The air force in the fight for air supremacy: Inaugural dissertation. (PDF; 2.2 MB) Retrieved October 22, 2011 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulf Balke: The aerial warfare in Europe 1939-1941 . Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-86047-591-6 , p. 401-405 (1057 pp.).
2. ↑ Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935-1945 Part II, Volume 3: Odebrecht – Zoch, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-2207-4 , pp. 269-270
3. ^ Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935-1945, Part II, Volume 2: Habermehl-Nuber, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1991, ISBN 3-7648-1701-1 , pp. 142-143
4. ↑ Jochen Prien: The fighter pilot associations of the German Air Force 1934 to 1945: Pre-war period and deployment over Poland, 1934 to 1939 Online ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935–1945, Part II, Volume 1: Abernetty – v.Gyldenfeldt, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1701-1 , pp. 325–326