VI. Anti-aircraft corps

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

The General Staff of the VI. Flak Corps was formed on February 15, 1945 from the permanent staff of the 16th Flak Division under the command of Lieutenant General Ludwig Schilffarth with a command post in Doetinchem . He was supposed to take over the leadership of the flak forces there under the Luftwaffenkommando West in cooperation with Army Group H ( Colonel General Johannes Blaskowitz ), including those of the Army Flak. For this purpose the VI. Flak Corps subordinated to the following forces:

• 4th Flak Division (large parts)
• 9th Flak Brigade and the
• 18th Flak Brigade

The main task of the associations was to prevent Allied airborne operations in the greater Wesel - Krefeld - Emmerich am Rhein - Rees area and the fierce ground fighting in the Kalkar - Goch area at that time . By the end of April 1945 this combat mission was expanded to include the protection of the Rhine ferries. At that time, the corps had a total of 42 flaka divisions. By mid-March 1945, increasingly violent fighting broke out over the last German bridgeheads on the Rhine and Wesel. Here the associations of the VI. Anti-aircraft corps especially when defending the positions. Until the end of the war, numerous new and restructuring operations were carried out with regard to the subordinate units of the VI in the further course of the fighting. Anti-aircraft corps. The last known structure from May 3, 1945, in the meantime the command post of the General Command was in Schrum , comprised the following units, which the VI. Flak corps were subordinate to:

• 8th Flak Division : Greater Rendsburg ,
• 9th Flak Brigade : Greater Rendsburg
• 18th Flak Brigade: Weser-Ems area
• Flak Regiment 100 : Varel area and that
• Flak Regiment 111 : Holland .

With the partial surrender of the German armed forces in the north-west of the German Reich on May 5, 1945 7:00 a.m. in front of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery , all fighting in this area ended, including those of the subordinate units of VI. Anti-aircraft corps.

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 , pp. 33, 34, 35.