Jagdgeschwader 7

Jagdgeschwader 7
Squadron badge
active	August 25, 1944 to May 8, 1945
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Wehrmacht
Armed forces	air force
Branch of service	Air force
Type	Jagdgeschwader
structure	Squadron staff and 4 groups
Installation site	Brandenburg-Briest , Prague , Lärz , Achmer
Nickname	"Nowotny Fighter Wing"
Aircraft type	Messerschmitt Bf 109 Messerschmitt Me 262
Second World War	Western Front Eastern Front
Squadron commodors
First commodore	Johannes Steinhoff Lieutenant Colonel
Last commodore	Theodor Weissenberger Major

The Jagdgeschwader 7 (JG 7) was an association of the German Air Force during World War II . It was also nicknamed "Nowotny" after the Austrian fighter pilot and air force officer, Walter Nowotny .

history

The staff of JG 7 was set up on August 25, 1944 in Königsberg, East Prussia, from the staff of Kampfgeschwader 1 .

Group I of JG 7 was created on August 25, 1944 in Burg near Magdeburg by renaming II./KG 1. and on November 27, 1944 became the II. Group of JG 7; A new I. Group in Königsberg was re-established by renaming the II. Group of Jagdgeschwader 3 with a group staff and three squadrons, but did not have its own aircraft until the end of the year.

The II. Group of JG 7 was set up on August 25, 1944 by renaming the III./KG 1 and separated from the squadron as the IV. Group of Jagdgeschwader 301 on November 24th . The I./JG 7 was renamed the II./JG 7 three days later.

The III. Group of JG 7 was formed on November 19, 1944 in Lechfeld from the Nowotny Test Command . On May 3, 1945, Jagdverband 44 was renamed Group IV of Jagdgeschwader 7 and placed under the squadron.

Commanders

Squadron commodors

Rank	Surname	time
Lieutenant colonel	Johannes Steinhoff	August 1944
major	Theodor Weissenberger	January 1, 1945
major	Rudolf Sinner (i. V.)	February 19, 1945

Group commanders

I. group

• Captain Gerhard Baeker, August 1944
• Major Theodor Weissenberger , November 25, 1944
• Major Erich Rudorffer, January 14, 1945
• Olt Fritz Stehle (i. V.), April 1945
• Major Wolfgang Spate , April 1945

II group

• Major Hermann Staiger, January 12, 1945
• Captain Burkhard, February 1945
• Major Hans Klemm, April 15, 1945 to May 8, 1945

III. group

• Major Erich Hohagen, November 19, 1944
• Major Rudolf Sinner, January 1, 1945
• Captain Johannes Naumann, April 5, 1945

IV. Group

• Lieutenant Colonel Heinz Bär May 3, 1945

Known squadron members

• Albert Falderbaum (1913–1961) was a German stunt pilot
• Johannes Steinhoff (1913–1994), was from 1966 to 1970, as Lieutenant General of the German Air Force , Inspector of the Air Force
• Fritz Wegner (1922–2007) was from 1981 to 1983, as lieutenant general in the air force of the Bundeswehr, commanding general of the air fleet command
• Walter Windisch (1924–2011), was from 1982 to 1985, as Lieutenant General of the Air Force of the Bundeswehr, Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr
• Wolfgang Späte (1911–1997) was stage manager for flight safety in the air force of the German armed forces from 1956 to 1962 .

literature

• Christer Bergstrom: Bagration to Berlin: The Final Air Battles in the East: 1944–1945 . Ian Allen, 2008, ISBN 978-1-903223-91-8 (English).
• Robert Forsyth: Jagdgeschwader 7 'Nowotny' . Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK 2008, ISBN 978-1-84603-320-9 .
• Barry C. Rosch: Luftwaffe Codes, Markings & Units 1939–1945 . Schiffer Publishing, 1995, ISBN 0-88740-796-X .
• Manfred Boehme: JG 7 The World's First Jet Fighter Unit 1944/1945 . Schiffer Publishing, 1992, ISBN 0-88740-395-6 .
• Wolfgang Dierich: The air force associations 1935-1945 . Outlines and short chronicles, a documentation. Ed .: Wolfgang Dierich. Verlag Heinz Nickel , Zweibrücken 1993, ISBN 3-925480-15-3 (703 pages).

Web links

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