Commanding general of anti-aircraft training

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The Commanding General of Flak Training or General of Flak Training was an agency of the German Air Force during the Second World War at corps level . The list took place on March 28, 1945. On May 8, 1945 the office was closed. The only commanding general was the general of the flak cartillery Walther von Axthelm with a command post in Weimar . The commander-in-chief of the replacement air force, who held the function of commander-in-chief of Air Fleet 10 , was subordinate to the general staff . The Flakschul-Division , the Flak-Ersatz-Division and the Fliegerziel-Division were subordinate to him .

After the division of the German Reich as a result of the Allied advance into a northern and a southern combat area, the command post was first moved to Munich and later to Schongau . In the last days of the war he was in Chieming , where the staff was taken prisoner by the Allies.

literature

  • Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The generals of the German air force. 1935-1945. The military careers of the aviator, anti-aircraft cartillery, paratrooper, air intelligence and engineer officers, including doctors, judges, intendants and ministerial officials in the general rank (= Germany's generals and admirals. Tl. 2). 3 volumes. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1990–1992, ISBN 3-7648-1701-1 .

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 , p. 41 .