Transport Squadron 1

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Combat Squadron zbV 1
Transport Squadron 1

active August 26, 1939 to September 30, 1944
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces air force
Branch of service Air force
Type Transport squadron
structure Squadron staff and 4 groups
Location Staff Stendal
I. Group Gardelegen
II. Group Stendal
III. Group Stendal
IV. Group Liegnitz
equipment Junkers Ju 52
Savoia-Marchetti SM.75
Savoia-Marchetti SM.82
Second World War Company Weser Exercise
Airborne Battle of Crete
Demjansk
Battle of Stalingrad
Allied landing in Normandy
Squadron commodors
First commodore Colonel Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik

The Transportgeschwader 1 was an association of the Luftwaffe in World War II . It was originally set up on August 26, 1939 as Kampfgeschwader zbV 1 .

Lineup

The staff, the II. And III. Group of the squadron emerged on August 26, 1939 as Combat Squadron for Special Use 1 (KG zbV 1) in Stendal ( Lage ). A first group was set up at the same time in Gardelegen ( Lage ) and a fourth group in Liegnitz ( Lage ). In May 1943 the KG zbV 1 was renamed Transportgeschwader 1. Initially, all four groups were equipped with the three-engine Junkers Ju 52 . From October 1943 the II. And III. Group of Italian transport machines of the type Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 and SM.82 . The squadron ID was 1Z. The squadron was disbanded on September 30, 1944. Only the IV. Group until January 30, 1945 and the I. Group with the 1st and 2nd squadrons until the end of the war remained in service.

history

The formation of the squadron is closely linked to the establishment of the paratrooper school in Stendal, as it was initially intended to serve as a transport squadron for paratroopers and airborne units. At the beginning of the Second World War, all paratroopers and airborne units were combined in the 7th Air Division . So also the KG zbV 1, whose I. and II. Group in Schönfeld-Seifersdorf, the III. Group in Aslau and the IV. Group in Liegnitz.

During operation weserübung , the occupation of Denmark and Norway, the squadron came under the X Air Corps used. The first and second groups were in Uetersen ( Lage ), the III. and IV. group in Hagenow ( location ).

At the airborne battle for Crete , which began on May 20, 1941 , the I. and II. Groups were the XI. Air Corps of the Air Force 4 assumed. From the Greek airfield Megara ( Lage ), they flew paratroopers and airborne troops to Crete.

The entire squadron remained in the Mediterranean area and was based on June 22, 1941 at the Greek airfield Eleusis ( Lage ) and subordinated to the X. Air Corps.

In October 1941 the I. Group transferred to the Riga-Spilve Air Base ( Lage ) in the northern section of the Eastern Front, in the war against the Soviet Union . From February 19 to May 18, 1942, Groups II and IV flew supply missions in the Demyansk Kessel Battle .

In June 1942 the III. and IV. Group in Tobruk ( Lage ) in Libya and Malemes ( Lage ) on Crete and were subordinate to the air transport commander Mediterranean, who belonged to Air Fleet 2 .

Between November 23, 1942 and February 2, 1943, Groups I and II took part in the loss-making operations to supply the Stalingrad boiler . Within two months, 50% of the machines and personnel used were lost.

At the beginning of the Allied landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944, the III. Group with 16 Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 in Celle ( Lage ) and was subordinate to the Air Fleet 3 responsible for the western area .

Commanders

Squadron commodors

Rank Surname time
Colonel Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik August 1, 1939 to August 1, 1941
Colonel Rudolf Trautvetter August 1, 1941 to December 8, 1941
Colonel Otto-Lutz Förster December 8, 1941 to March 23, 1943
Colonel Karl Drewes March 23, 1943 to April 7, 1943
Colonel Adolf Jackel April 7, 1943 to August 1944
Colonel Josef Koegl August 1944 to September 30, 1944

Group commanders

I. group
  • Major Max Ziervogel, August 26, 1939 to November 22, 1939
  • Major Karl Georg Witt, November 22, 1939 to August 31, 1940
  • Major Adolf Jäckel, August 31, 1940 to May 7, 1941
  • Major Otto Förster, May 7, 1941 to December 1941
  • Major Theodor Beckmann, December 1941 to February 1942
  • Major Ernst Maess, February 1942 to October 15, 1943
  • Major Oskar Schmidt, October 15, 1943 to May 8, 1945
II group
  • Captain von Lindenau, August 26, 1939 to April 1940
  • Major Karl Drewes , April 1940 to April 1940
  • Captain Arnold Willerding, April 1941 to August 1941
  • Captain Guido Neundlinger, August 1941 to May 1943
  • Captain Gerhard Dudeck, May 1943 to February 15, 1944
  • Major Heinz Klamke, February 15, 1944 to September 4, 1944
III. group
  • Captain Markus Zeidler, August 26, 1939 to September 2, 1940
  • Major Starke, September 2, 1940 to?
  • Captain Schröder, 1942
  • Captain Siegfried Hagena, October 15, 1942 to May 1943
  • Major Walter Hornung, May 1943 to June 1943
  • Major Siegfried Hagena, June 1943 to July 6, 1943
  • Captain Franz Stipschitsch, August 1943 to December 1943
  • Major Fridolin Fath, December 1943 to September 4, 1944
IV. Group
  • Major Johann Janzen, August 26, 1939 to November 1939
  • Captain Theodor Beckmann, March 1940 to 1942
  • Captain Fridolin Fath, 1942
  • Major Theodor Scheuring,? until January 1943
  • Captain Kurt Schneidberger, January 16, 1943 to March 1944
  • Captain Josef Penkert, March 1944 to April 1944
  • Major Karl-Heinz Schütte, May 1, 1944 to January 1945

literature

Individual evidence

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  2. Henry L. deZeng IV: Luftwaffe Airfields 1935–45 Germany (1937 Borders) , pp. 394–396 , accessed on June 22, 2019.
  3. ^ Leo Niehorster : Scandinavian Campaign, German Airforce, Order of Battle X Air Corps April 9, 1940 , accessed June 22, 2019.
  4. Leo Niehorster: The Battle for Crete, Order of Battle German 4th Air Fleet 20 May 1941 , accessed on June 22, 2019.
  5. Leo Niehorster: German Air Force, Order of Battle, X Air Corps, June 22, 1941 , accessed on June 22, 2019.
  6. Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45, The Baltic States-Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania , pp 83-85 , accessed on 6 June 2020th
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  8. ^ Leo Niehorster: German Airforce, Order of Battle 3rd Air Fleet 6 June 1944 , accessed on June 30, 2019.