Air War School

The air war schools were training facilities for the offspring of officers in the Wehrmacht Air Force , whose graduates were authorized to operate aircraft in the A1 to B2 certification classes. There were thirteen aerial warfare schools in the German Reich , which were subordinate to the respective general of aviation training .

education

The Luftwaffe's junior officers were trained at the air warfare schools. The training and the aircraft used corresponded to those of the pilot schools . The curriculum at the Air War Schools was only expanded to include subjects

• tactics
• Air law
• Troop service
• Disciplinary Code

After graduating from school, the graduates were entitled to operate aircraft in certification classes A1 to B2. Only the completion of the blind flight school qualified the graduate of the air war school for a use in a combat , long distance reconnaissance, night hunting or sea aviation association.

list

Air War School 1 Dresden-Klotzsche

Surname	place	Lineup	Commanders
LKS 1	Dresden-Klotzsche	April 1, 1936, set up as the Dresden Air War School , from January 1940 LKS 1 in Luftgau III.	Colonel Oskar Kriegbaum : until April 1942 Major General Josef Brunner : May 1942 to June 1944 Colonel Lutz: June 1944 to August 1944 Colonel Erich Kaufmann: August 1944 until the end of the war
LKS 2	Berlin-Gatow	April 1, 1936, set up as the Berlin-Gatow Air War School , from January 1940 LKS 2 in Luftgau III.	Colonel Julius Schulz : until January 1939 Major General Hellmuth Bieneck : February 1939 to August 1939 Colonel Heinz-Hellmuth von Wühlisch : August 1939 to January 1940 Colonel Heinz Funke : February 1940 to November 1943 Colonel Lothar von Wurmb: December 1943 until the end of the war
LKS 3	Wildlife Park , later Werder , from 1944 Oschatz	April 1, 1936, set up as the Werder / Havel Air War School , from January 1940 LKS 3 in Luftgau III.	Colonel Philipp Zoch : August 1939 Colonel Grohmann Lieutenant Colonel Hans Pampe: November 1939 to February 1940 Colonel Bernhard Georgi: February 1940 to June 1940 Colonel Hans Behrendt : June 1940 to August 1940 Colonel Nikolaus Graf von Luckner : August 1940 to September 1943 unknown
LKS 4	Fürstenfeldbruck near Munich	October 1, 1937, set up as the Fürstenfeldbruck Air War School , from January 1940 LKS 4.	Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Hermann Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler ; until March 1940 unknown Major General Herbert Sonnenburg : October 1940 to September 1943 Colonel / Major General Otto Höhne : from September 1943 until the end of the war
LKS 5	Regensburg-Obertraubling , from November 1939 Breslau-Schöngarten	March 1, 1939, set up as the Breslau-Schöngarten Air War School , from January 1940 LKS 5 in Luftgau VIII. Used to defend the Wroclaw Fortress from 1945 .	Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel / Major General Ludwig Schulz : August 1940 to February 1945
LKS 6 (Flak)	Kitzingen	Autumn 1939, set up for the offspring of war officers (KON) of the flak troops in Luftgau XII, later Luftgau XIV	Lieutenant Colonel Hermann Hiller : until June 1940 Colonel Gotthard Frantz : June 1940 to November 1941 unknown Colonel Franz Engel : January 1942 to June 1943 Colonel Kurt Andresen : June 1943 to March 1944 Colonel Oskar Bauer: April 1944 until the end of the war
LKS 7	Regensburg-Obertraubling, from November 1939 Tulln on the Danube	October 1939, set up as the Air War School Vienna-Seyring , from October 1939 first Air War School Tulln , then from January 1940 LKS 7 in Luftgau XVII.	Colonel / Major General Dietrich Volkmann : January 1940 until the end of the war
LKS 8 (Flak)	Goeppingen	August 1941, set up for the offspring of war officers (KON) of the flak troops in Luftgau VIII	Colonel Eduard Muhr : until November 1942 Major General Theodor Herbert : November 1942 to June 1944 Lieutenant Colonel Ernst Schleicher: June 1942 to December 1944 Lieutenant Colonel Carl Jeebens: December 1944 to dissolution in April 1945
LKS 9 (KON)	Czestochowa	Set up at the end of 1942 for the offspring of war officers (KON) of the Luftwaffe in Luftgau VIII, later Luftgau XIV	Colonel Erich-Erdmann Fitzau : until November 1943 Major General Fritz Reinshagen : November 1943 to dissolution in February 1945
LKS 10	Fürstenwalde (Spree)	May 1944, from the C 10 pilot school in Luftgau III	Major Klaus Nöske (former commander of the C 10 pilot school ): until October 1944 Colonel Bernhard Woldenga : October / November 1944
LKS 11 (makeshift)	Oschatz, from September 1944 Straubing	August 1944, among others from the Aviation Department / Luftnachrichtenschule 3	Captain Klaus Klämbt: until January 1945 Lieutenant Colonel Hans Wolff: February 1945 to dissolution in April 1945
LKS 12 (KON)	Bug (Ruegen)	August 1944, set up for the Luftwaffe's junior war officers (KON)	Major General Walter Schröder : until the dissolution in April 1945
LKS 13 (Ln.)	Halle (Saale)	September 1944, set up for the training of the air news force	Lieutenant Colonel Konrad von Buttel: until dissolution in April 1945

literature

• Karl Ries: German aviation schools and their machines 1919–1945 , Stuttgart, Motorbuchverlag 1988.

Web links

• The Air Force 1939–1945 , on the website of the German Historical Museum (as of October 1, 2008)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Ries: German Aviation Schools and Their Machines 1919–1945 , Stuttgart, Motorbuchverlag 1988, p. 120.