Fighter Wing 9
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Jagdfliegergeschwader 9 |
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 Association badge of the JG-9 (vertical stabilizer) |
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| active | May 16, 1961 to October 2, 1990 |
| Country |
.svg){kind=small} GDR
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| Armed forces | NVA |
| Armed forces |
.svg){kind=small} NVA air force
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| Branch of service | Aviation forces |
| Type | Type of fighter pilot forces |
| Strength | approx. 600 soldiers and 100 civilian employees |
| Insinuation | 3. LVD |
| Squadron location | Peenemünde Airport |
| Web presence | JG-9 |
| Last commander | |
| Squadron commander | Lieutenant Colonel Dietz |
| insignia | |
| squadron | III |
| Aircraft | |
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Fighter aircraft / helicopter |
see table |
 
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NVA Air Base Peenemünde |
The Jagdfliegergeschwader 9 (JG-9) was the honorary title of Heinrich Rau and was a flying unit in regimental strength of the NVA air forces in direct subordination of the 3rd Air Defense Division .
history
( MiG-Shelter type GDF, left 1 × open, right 2 × closed, far right muni-bunker)
The forerunner of the JG-9 was the 3rd department of the 2nd Aero Club of the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (KVP) established in December 1953 at the Cottbus-Drewitz airfield . On August 28, 1954, she was renamed the 3rd command of the 2nd Aero Club of the KVP. When it was taken over by the NVA on December 26, 1956, it was managed as the 9th Air Wing of the 3rd Air Division. From May 16, 1961, the squadron was relocated to Peenemünde airfield in the north of the island of Usedom , where it was renamed Jagdfliegergeschwader 9 (JFG-9; later JG-9) on June 9, 1961. The airfield used, which already belonged to the former test site of the Air Force " Peenemünde-West ", was considerably expanded and expanded between 1958 and 1961.
On the 10th anniversary of the NVA, the JG-9 was the first fighter squadron to receive the honorary name Heinrich Rau on March 1, 1966 .
Air controlling and operational management of the fighter aircraft were carried out from the Pudagla command post at the time .
At the end of the 1980s, due to the exclusion of naval forces from the Vienna disarmament negotiations , consideration was given to integrating the JG-9 into the People's Navy as a naval fighter squadron. Since the MiG-23 was not suitable for this, it was not done.
On September 13, 1990, during a flight demonstration in front of the Defense Committee of the German Bundestag with a MiG-23ML at the JG-9, a fatal aircraft accident occurred when Major Sascha Syrbe crashed with his plane after losing spatial orientation and had a fatal accident. It was the last such aircraft accident of the NVA. The accident pilot left behind his wife, the current district administrator of the Ostvorpommern district, Barbara Syrbe , and three children.
The last flight day was on September 26, 1990. The last flight of an NVA aircraft took place on September 27, 1990 in JG-3 Preschen with a MiG-29A (604).
Commanders
| Rank, name | period of service | Remarks |
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| Captain Richter | 1954-1955 | |
| Major Dörl | 1955-1956 | |
| Major Siegfried Haufe | 1956-1957 | later Colonel u. Kdr. Institute for Language Training of the NVA Naumburg |
| Captain Schneider | 1957-1960 | |
| Captain Wiese | Jan 1 - Aug 21, 1961 | |
| Major Klaus-Jürgen Baarß | Sept 1 - Nov 15, 1961 | later GenLtn in the LSK / LV command |
| Major Schneider | 1961-1963 | |
| Major Ullmann | 1963-1964 | |
| Major Koehler | Jun 1 - Oct 30, 1964 | |
| Major Günter Schmidt | Nov 1, 1964 - Aug 1965 | fatal crash on August 13, 1965 |
| Lieutenant Colonel Klaus-Jürgen Baarß | 1965-1968 | |
| Captain Rolf Berger | 1968-1973 | later Lieutenant General and Chief Command LSK / LV |
| Lieutenant Colonel Fiß | 1973-1977 | |
| Lieutenant Colonel Klaus Zimmermann | 1977-1988 | later GenMaj u. Commander FO FMTFK |
| Lieutenant Colonel Pätz | 1978-1981 | |
| Major Gyurkovits | 1981-1985 | 1983 still lieutenant colonel |
| Colonel Rolf Wukasch | 1985-1989 | 1990 Colonel u. Kdr. FO FMTFK |
| Lieutenant Colonel Dietze | 1989-1990 |
Note: Frame structure see squadron, air force NVA
Used aircraft types
The following types of combat aircraft were used in JG-9:
- Jak-18
- Jak-11
- MiG-15bis
- MiG-15 UTI
- MiG-17 F.
- MiG-17 PF
- MiG-21 F13
- MiG-21 PFM
- MiG-21 U
- MiG-21 PLC
- MiG-21 SPS / K
- MiG-21 M.
- MiG-21 US
- MiG-21bis in two versions ("SAU" and "Lasur")
- MiG-21 MF
- MiG-21 UM
- MiG-21 UB
- MiG-23 ML
- MiG-23 MF
- MiG-23 UB
resolution
The last squadron roll call took place on October 2, 1990. With the decommissioning of the NVA in 1990, the squadron was dissolved.
See also
literature
- Manfred Kanetzki: MiGs over Peenemünde. The history of the NVA air force units on Usedom . Jagdfliegergeschwader-9 "Heinrich Rau", Aviation Technical Battalion-9 "Käthe Niederkirchner", target display chain-33, radio technical battalion-33. 2nd, revised edition. MediaScript, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-9814822-1-8 .
- Volkhard Bode, Gerhard Kaiser: Building Hitler's Missiles - Traces of History in Peenemünde . Ch. Links, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-483-9 . (engl.)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilfried Copenhagen: The air forces of the NVA . Motorbuch-Verlag. Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-02235-4 , p. 17.
Coordinates: 54 ° 9 ′ 30.28 ″ N , 13 ° 46 ′ 16.9 ″ E