Air Force Officer College / Air Defense "Franz Mehring"

OHS Franz Mehring ; - XX -
activity	1952-1990
Sponsorship	NVA , command LSK / LV
place	OHS Kamenz staff
country	GDR
last commander	Major General Alois Zieris
Students	temporarily up to 1,500
Employee	k. A.
Website	Officer school (s) of the LSK / LV

OHS of the LSK / LV Kamenz

OHS LSK / LV in Kamenz

The Officers' College of the Air Force / Air Defense (OHS der LSK / LV) in Kamenz was named Franz Mehring and was a military college of the GDR . It served the training of officers, primarily of the air force , but also of other armed forces (TSK) of the NVA and foreign military cadres.

history

The establishment of the OHS of the LSK / LV, initially referred to as the “Kamenz Aviation School”, goes back to the takeover of the destroyed Kamenz airfield in 1952 by the main administration training / branch Johannisthal of the then Ministry of the Interior (MdI) of the GDR.

School operations began with the training of flight students who were also jokingly called cotton balls . The future teachers and lecturers were trained in Pirna in Saxony, Pinnow in Brandenburg or at military academies in the Soviet Union .

Outline and organizational structure

Military area

The commander and staff of the OHS of the LSK / LV were at the Kamenz location.

After the basic training and the swearing-in , studies began in the individual sections.

Higher education

University entrance qualification
Section 1: Social Sciences, Eberhard Freymuth
- Political officer
Section 3: Management bodies, Waldemar Titscher
Section 2: Reverse Services,
Section 4: Aviation Engineer Service, Claus Kippenhahn
- Radio / radio measurement equipment
- Electrical and special equipment
- Airframe / engine
- Armament
Section 5: Radio troops, Norbert Dunst
Section 6: AA missile troops, Alfred Balcerowiak

Commanders

Rank, name	period of service	comment
Colonel Lehweß-Litzmann	19th - 1959	Formation of a flying school
	19 ..- 19 ..	From 1986 OHS for military pilots

VP Inspector Leopold	19 ..- 19 ..	Formation of an aviation technology school
Colonel Manfred Lange (Major General from 1973)	1970-1988	then chief AMAS in the LSK / LV command
Colonel Hans Suess	1978-1988	then commander of the Friedrich Engels military academy in 1988 GenLtn
Major General Alois Zieris	1988-1990	previously Commander 1st LVD

Note: The VP inspector rank at that time is comparable to the rank of colonel.

Well-known graduates

resolution

With the decommissioning of the NVA in 1990, the officers' college was dissolved. Legal successors were the Bundeswehr Command East and the 5th Air Force Division .

literature

Wolf-Rüdiger Stuppert and Siegfried Fiedler: The radio technical troops of the air defense of the GDR - history and stories . Steffen-Verlag, Friedland 2012. ISBN 978-3-942477-39-0