Air fleet 5

Air fleet 5
active	April 12, 1940 to September 16, 1944
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Wehrmacht
Armed forces	air force
Type	Higher command authority
structure	Subordinate associations
commander
Commander	see under leadership

The Luftflotte 5 (Lfl. 5) was an air fleet of the Luftwaffe of the Wehrmacht , established on April 12, 1940 , which was used in Northern Europe during the Second World War and existed until September 1944.

history

Luftflotte 5 was set up in Hamburg on April 12, 1940 under the orders of Colonel General Erhard Milch and then relocated to Oslo in Norway , which had previously been occupied as part of the Weser exercise . On May 9th of the same year General der Flieger Hans-Jürgen Stumpff took over the air fleet. In addition to attacks on ship targets, the air fleet also took part in the Battle of Britain in late summer and autumn 1940. The largest single mission took place on August 15th.

After the attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, a new task was added to the support of the German-Finnish army units on the Lapland and Karelia fronts as well as the fight against the allied northern sea convoys . In September 1944 the air fleet was merged with the Luftgaukommando Norway and renamed the Commanding General of the German Air Force in Norway .

guide

Standard of the Commander in Chief of an Air Fleet

Chiefs of the Air Fleet 5

Commander in chief	from	to
Colonel General Erhard Milch	April 12, 1940	May 9, 1940
Colonel General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff	May 10, 1940	November 6, 1943
Lieutenant General Josef Kammhuber	November 20, 1943	September 16, 1944

Chiefs of the General Staff of the Air Fleet 5

Chief of the General Staff	from	to
Lieutenant General Helmuth Förster	April 16, 1940	July 1940
Major General Gerhard Bassenge	August 1, 1940	4th October 1940
Major General Andreas Nielsen	October 20, 1940	December 31, 1943
Colonel Ernst Kusserow	January 1, 1944	September 16, 1944

Subordinate associations

May 10, 1940 (Denmark, Norway) Western campaign	directly subordinated	Wekusta 5
	X. Air Corps	II./KG 26 ; I./KG 40 ; 2./ZG 76; II./JG 77 ; KGr. zbV 108; Westa chain X. Air Corps
	Pilot in command of Stavanger	I./ZG 76; 4./JG 77 ; 1. (F) / 122; 3. (F) /Ob.dL; 1./Kü.Fl.Gr. 106
	Trondheim pilot leader	I. and III./KG 26 ; III./KG 3 ; Kü.Fl.Gr. 506; I./StG 1; 1st (F) / 20th
	Luftgau Command Norway
August 13, 1940 (Denmark, Norway) Battle of Britain	directly subordinated	Wekusta 5; Courier Season 2; Kü.Fl.Gr. 706; Kü.Fl.Gr. 906; Kgr. Z. b. V. 108; 3. (F) Ob.dL
	X. Air Corps	I. and III./KG 26 ; I. and III./KG 30 ; I./ZG 76; I. and II./JG 77 ; Kü.Fl.Gr. 506; 3. (F) /Ob.dL; 1. (F) / 120; 1. (F) / 121; Agr (F) / 22; Westa chain X. Air Corps
	Luftgau Command Norway
June 22, 1941 (Denmark, Norway)	directly subordinated	Kü.Fl.Gr. 706; 1. (H) / 32; 1. (F) / 120; 1. (F) / 124; Wekusta 5 ; KGr.zbV 108
	Pilot North	Fighter pilot Norway ; I./KG 26 ; II./KG 30 ; IV. (St.) / LG 1
	Luftgau Command Norway
June 1, 1942 (Denmark, Norway, Finland)	directly subordinated	Wekusta 5
	Pilot North (East)	I. and II./KG 30 ; II. And 13./JG 5 ; I./StG 5; 3./KG 26 ; 1./AGr.(S) 125; 1. (F) / 22; 1. (F) / 124; Westa 5
	Fliegerführer Nord (West)	I./KG 26 ; I./KG 40 ; 2./Kü.Fl.Gr. 906; Tirpitz flight squadron ; 1. (F) / 120
	Pilot Lofoten	III./KG 30 ; III./JG 5 ; 2./KG 26 ; 4./StG 5; Chain 1. (F) / 124
	Fighter pilot Norway	I./JG 5 ; Drontheim hunting group
	Luftgau Command Norway	Kgr. Z. b. V. 108
	Luftgau Command Finland
	Sea Emergency Service Guide Norway	Maritime Emergency Command VIII; Maritime Emergency Command IX
July 1, 1943 (Denmark, Norway, Finland)	Pilot North (East)	1. (H) / 32; 1. (F) / 124; 1. (F) / 22; Weather chain; 4./ and I. Erg./St.G 5; Staff, Staff II. And Staff III./JG 5; 11., 13. and 14./JG 5; Transport group; Staff I./KG 30; 1st and 3rd / Kü.Fl.Gr. 406
	Fliegerführer Nord (West)	1./Versuchsverband Ob.dL; 1./Kü.Fl.Gr. 706; 1. (F) / 120; 2./Kü.Fl.Gr. 406; Transport relay; Staff I./KG 40; 1./196
	Pilot Lofoten	Staff and 2./Kü.Fl.Gr. 706; 3./Kü.Fl.Gr. 906; 1./Kü.Fl.Gr. 406; 1. (F) / 22
	Fighter pilot Norway	Staff I./JG 5; Staff IV./JG 5
	Luftgau Command Norway	22. Carrier group; Readiness to fly; Air Service Command Norway
	13th Flak Brigade	Flak Regiment 142, Flak Regiment 181, Flak Regiment 229
	14th Flak Brigade	Flak Regiment 83, Flak Regiment 92, Flak Regiment 152, Flak Regiment 162
June 17, 1944 (Denmark, Norway, Finland)	directly subordinated	Staff / T.Gr. 20; Sea Transport Flier Squadron 2; Distress squadron 5; Distress squadron 10; LD-Kdo. Norway; LD-Kdo. Finland; Medical flight readiness 8
	Commanding general of the German Air Force in Finland	1./Night Battle Group 8; 2./Night Battle Group 8; I./SG. 5; 1st (H) / 32nd
	Pilot 3	1. (F) / 124; III./JG 5; 3. (F) / SAGr. 130
	Pilot 4	1. (F) / 22; Skagerak Reconnaissance Chain; Staff / SAGr. 131 with 2. (F) / SAGr. 131, 1./B.Fl.Gr. 196 and 1. (F) / 120
	Pilot 5	Staff / SAGr. 130 with 1. (F) / SAGr. 130 and 2. (F) / SAGr. 130; 1./406; 3./KG 40
	Fighter pilot Norway	Staff / JG 5, IV./JG 5, 13. (Z) / JG 5
	Luftgau Command Norway
	14th Flak Brigade	Flak Regiment 83, Flak Regiment 92, Flak Regiment 152, Flak Regiment 162

literature

• Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 14. The Land Forces. Name associations. The air force. Flying bandages. Flak deployment in the Reich 1943–1945 . Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1980, ISBN 3-7648-1111-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leo Niehorster : Battle for France, German Order of Battle, 5th Air Force, May 10, 1940 , accessed on June 20, 2019.
2. ↑ Leo Niehorster: Operation Sea Lion, 5th Air Fleet, German Air Force, September 7, 1940 , accessed on June 20, 2019.
3. ^ Leo Niehorster: German Airforce, Order of Battle 5th. Air Fleet June 22, 1941 , accessed May 5, 2015.
4. ^ Leo Niehorster: German Airforce, Order of Battle 5th. Air Fleet June 1, 1942 , accessed May 5, 2015.
5. ↑ Olve Dybvig: Special Interest Group, Air Force in Norway, Division of Air Fleet Command 5, as of July 1, 1943. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 17, 2016 ; accessed on January 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Olve Dybvig: Special Interest Group, Luftwaffe in Norway 1944, Luftwaffe units in Norway and Finland at 17.6.44. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 17, 2007 ; accessed on January 17, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.