V. Flak Corps

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The V. Flak Corps was a major combat unit of the German Air Force in World War II .

The General Staff of the V Flak Corps was formed by converting the staff of the General of the Flak Cartillery at the Air Force Command Southeast on October 20, 1944. The commanding general of the flak cartillery, Helmut Richter , remained in command . The installation location was Pécs in Hungary . The V Flak Corps was subordinate to the Air Fleet 4 there . Richter himself, however, only stayed in this post until November 14, 1944, was then entrusted with new tasks and on November 15, 1944 handed over the command to General of the flak cartillery Otto Wilhelm von Renz , who then managed the corps until the end of the war led. In November 1944, meanwhile the General Command had been relocated east of Budapest , the 5th Flak Corps was responsible for the 15th Flak Division , 19th Flak Division and the 20th Flak Division .

In mid-December 1944, during the battle for Budapest , the corps was briefly subordinated to the 17th flak brigade . Due to the general development of the situation in Hungary, the command post of the V Flak Corps had to be relocated several times. First to Tata (Hungary) via Bernolákovo ( Slovakia ), and finally on March 30, 1945 to Traiskirchen (20 km south of Vienna ). Arrived in Traiskirchen, the V Flak Corps were subordinated to further flak units, so that at that time the corps was structured as follows:

• 15th Flak Division,
• 19th Flak Division,
• 20th Flak Division and the
• 24th Flak Division .

After the failure of the German Balaton offensive , the Soviet armed forces stood in front of the walls of Vienna in early April 1945. In the course of these Vienna operations , the command post of the V Flak Corps had to be relocated several times again. So first to Oberwölbingen and on April 13, 1945 to Traun . On May 6, 1945 he was then in Sonntagberg . During another planned move to Admont on May 7, 1945, parts of the General Command fell into Soviet captivity (from July 1945 under British administration). With the surrender of the German Wehrmacht on May 8, 1945, the general command of the V Flak Corps ended its military duties. On May 11, 1945, however, the command was transferred to Bischofshofen in order to take over the coordination of the German armed forces that were gathering in this area as reception center 2 .

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. 33.