Fonds BArch, RL 4 - Training offices at the Reich Aviation Ministry (with inspections and weapon generals) (inventory)

701 Aufbewahrungseinheiten; 10,0 laufende Meter

Chef des Ausbildungswesens/General der Fliegerausbildung und Luftwaffeninspektionen/Waffengenerale, 1939-1945

History of the Inventory Designer: 1.2.1939 Appointment of the Chief of Training to relieve the General Staff of the Luftwaffe. At first he was directly subordinate to the Inspector General of the Luftwaffe, since April 1940 to the intermediate Chief of the Air Force. The inspections that had existed since 1935 for the individual branches of the armed forces were transferred to the Chief of Training. During the war, they were overwhelmingly converted into arms generals and mostly subordinated to the Chief of the Air Force General Staff. In the spring of 1943, the office of Chief of Education was closed. Some of the tasks were entrusted to the "General of Flight Training", who from July 1944 was subordinated to the Chief of the General Staff of the Luftwaffe and in October 1944 also took over the training area of the Luftwaffe Command Staff I a with the chart system. Overview of the names of the inspections / weapon generals L In 1 1936 - Jan. 1939: Inspection of the reconnaissance pilots and the aerial photography Febr. - Sept. 1939: Inspection of the army pilots, plus General of the Lw. at the ObdH Oct. 1939 - Spring 1942: Inspection of the reconnaissance pilots Spring 1942 - Autumn 1943: General of the reconnaissance pilots and General of the Lw. at the ObdH from autumn 1943: General of the reconnaissance pilots L In 2 1937 - Jan. 1939: Inspection of the combat pilots Febr. - Sept. 1939: Inspection of the combat, Stuka and reconnaissance pilots Oct. 1939 - Sept. 1941: Inspection of the combat and Stuka pilots from Sept. 1941: General of the combat pilots L In 3 1936 - 1937: Inspection of the fighter and Stuka pilots 1938: Inspection of the fighter and Stuka pilots 1938: Inspection of the reconnaissance pilots L In 2 1937 - Jan. 1939: Inspection of the fighter, Stuka and reconnaissance pilots Oct. 1939 - Sept. 1931: Inspection of the fighter and Stuka pilots from Sept. 1941: General of the fighter pilots L In 3 1936 - 1937: Inspection of the fighter and Stuka pilots 1938: 1939 - 1941: Inspection for technical training 1942 - May 1943: Inspection for technical troop service, equipment and weapons L In 6 From 1937: Inspection of motor vehicles L In 7 Inspection of air intelligence L In 8 Inspection of seaplanes Febr. 1939 - March 1940: Inspection of Naval Pilots Apr. 1940 - Apr. 1942 Inspection of Maritime Aviation L In 9 Inspection of Pilot Schools L In 10 Inspection of Education and Training, plus Command of the Air War Schools June - Dec. 1944: Inspection for Troop Service and Education in the Air Force L In 11 1939: Inspection of the Airborne and Parachute Troops, plus Commander of the Air Force Division 7 L In 12 1939 - Jan. 1944: Inspection of the Airborne and Parachute Troops L In 11 1939: Inspection of the Airborne and Parachute Troops, plus Commander of the Airborne and Parachute Division 7 L In 12 1939 - Jan. 1944: Inspection of the Airborne and Parachute Troops L In 11 1939: Inspection of the Airborne and Parachute Troops, plus Commander of the Airborne and Parachute Troops 7 L In 12 1939 - Jan. 1939 1941: Inspection for air navigation (blind flight and meteorological service inspection) L In 13 1939 - 1942: Inspection of civil air defence since 1942: Inspection of air defence L In 14 1939 - 1944 Inspection of medical service L In 15 Inspection of air defence zones L In 16 Inspection of maritime emergency service L In 17 June 1942 - Spring 1943: Inspection of air force construction forces Spring 1943 - Apr. 1944: Air force inspection for construction troops and prisoners of war May - Sept. 1944: Inspection of air force pioneers and prisoner of war camps From Oct. 1944: Inspection of the air force pioneers and prisoner of war camps from Oct. 1944: Inspection of the air force pioneers and prisoner of war camps from Oct. 1944: Inspection of the air force pioneers and prisoner of war camps from Oct. 1944: Inspection of the air force pioneers and prisoner of war from Sept. 1944: Inspection of the air force pioneers and prisoner of war from Oct. 1944: Inspection of the air force pioneers and prisoner of war from Sept. 1944: Inspection of the air force pioneers and prisoner of war from Oct. 1944 In 18 Dec. 1942 - Beginning of 1944: Inspection of the air force field units Inventory description: The department Chief of Training (Chef AW) was formed in February 1939 to relieve the 3rd (training) department of the General Staff, which had emerged in 1937 from the training department of the Luftkommandoamt (Air Command Office) in existence since 1934 and was subordinate to the Air Force Inspector General. The 3rd section of the General Staff was limited to tactical training, while the Chief AW had to carry out the entire remaining training of the Luftwaffe according to the instructions of the Reich Minister of Air Force (Ob.d.L.). Equipped with the status and disciplinary powers of a Commanding General, he had the right to supervise the training orders issued and to attend the service of the units in order to check the level of training of the troops. However, he did not exercise direct command over the troops. At first, the Chief AW was also directly responsible to the Inspector General of the Luftwaffe (Gen.Insp.d.Lw.), but since April 1940 to the intermediate Chief of the Air Force. In addition to the training department, the staff included the regulations and teaching material department, the strength and equipment department and the aerial photography department, which was spun off from Luftwaffeninspektion 1 (L In 1), the former army aircraft inspection. The air force inspections 1-14, which had also been under the control of the Gen.Insp.d.Lw. since their formation in 1935, now fell under the authority of the Chief AW, although from April 1940 only the inspections 1-3, 8-10 and 12 remained in his area of responsibility. In the spring of 1943, the Aerial Photogrammetry Department, together with the Air Force's Main Photogrammetry Department, was affiliated with the General of Reconnaissance Aircraft (formerly L In 2) in order to serve as the basis for reconnaissance work there. Surveying was assigned to the 7th department of the General Staff; only Group V (film) and the main film station remained with the Chief AW. Renamed in "General der Fliegerausbildung" (Gen.d.Fl.Ausb.)(Kreipe) the former chief AW remained limited to his main task of troop training. From July 1944 on he was subordinated to the Chief of the General Staff (Chief Gen.St.) and in October of the same year the training area was taken over by the Luftwaffe Command Staff Ia (training dept.), where already since 1942 the map system was integrated. The "General of the reconnaissance pilots" (v. Barsewisch), who at the same time also held the functions of General d. Lw. at the Commander-in-Chief of the Army (Ob.d.H.) (taken over from L In 1, Insp. d. Heeresflieger), was responsible for the organisation and conversion of the reconnaissance units and for the development of aircraft. Due to his impressions during inspections, he was able to make training demands on the general of the pilot training and even provide for the training of officers in reconnaissance supplementary units. In spring 1945 his duties were taken over by the 7th abbot of the Lw.Führungsstab (Lw.F.St.). The purpose of the air force inspections was to monitor and supervise the training, personnel and equipment of the various branches of the armed forces and other facilities of the air force. They made suggestions for improvements and advised the Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe (Ob.d.L.) during the war - partly with the powers of a Commanding General and renamed to weapon generals. The weapon generals were directly under the control of the chief of the general staff, thus in contrast to the inspections they were equal to the chief of AW/Gen.d.Fl.Ausb. New services have been created or areas of responsibility moved as needed. Thus the L In. 1 (inspection of the army pilots) with the range aerial photography and the connection to the army was divided between the boss AW and the Gen.d.Aufkl.flieger or took over later completely from the latter. Since January 1940 the L In 4 (Flakart.) and the L In 13 (Luftschutz) were subordinated to the general of the anti-aircraft artillery (Flakwaffe) (Rüdel, afterwards v. Axthelm) since January 1940; the latter became from October an independent mechanism. From April 1940, inspections 5 (flight safety), 6 (motor vehicles) and 14 (medical services) were directly under the command of the Air Force Chief - no longer under the command of AW. who in turn was subordinated to the Gen.Insp.d.Lw. At the end of 1944 all inspections were subordinated to the weapon generals. In May 1943, the "General der Truppentechnik" was appointed as successor to the Technical Office of the General Aircraft Master. In 1944 the "General der Fliegerbodenorganisation" emerged from the 2nd department of the General Quartermaster. Characterisation of the content: The Chief AW and the General of Flight Training have mainly passed down provisions on the training of the different types of armed forces, in particular the Air Force, as well as on staffing and organisation. The richest survivor is the general of reconnaissance pilots, whose written records contain most of the relatively extensive documents on aerial photography. The general of the anti-aircraft weapon as well as the inspections of the medical service and the civil air-raid protection are also handed down with noteworthy documents, the latter with experience reports about heavy air attacks on German cities. Remains of documents have been deposited in the Federal Archives by the generals of fighter, fighter and battle pilots as well as by the General of the Naval Sector, to whom the naval and sea pilots were technically subordinate, mostly in the form of leadership principles, guidelines for deployment and cooperation with the army and navy (with experience reports), technical requirements, development programmes, lists of the armament status and staffing of positions. State of preservation: Findbuch 1990 Vorarchivische Ordnung: The archive material, which has only been handed down in fragments, originates from the return of files from the USA and Great Britain to the Document Centre of the Military History Research Office, from where it was handed over to the military archive in 1968. Scope, explanation: 692 AU Citation method: BArch, RL 4/...

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Fremde Archive: <br />
Nachlass Erich Hippke (Inspekteur des Sanitätswesens der Lw.) im Universitätsarchiv Düsseldorf
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Verwandtes Archivgut im Bundesarchiv: <br />
RL 2-II Generalstab der Luftwaffe/Luftwaffenführungsstab (3. bzw. Ausbildungs-Abteilung)<br />
RL 2-III Generalstab der Luftwaffe/Generalquartiermeister<br />
ZA 3 Historical Division Karlsruhe/Studiengruppe Luftwaffe<br />
N 176 Nachlass Karl Drumm (Inspektion der Heeresflieger)<br />
N 211 Nachlass Adolf Galland (Inspekteur der Jagdflieger)<br />
N 760 Nachlass Hans Trautloft (General der Jagdflieger)<br />
N 141 Nachlass Werner Kreipe (General der Fliegerausbildung)<br />
N 624 Nachlass Dr. Erich Ewald (Luftbildwesen)
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Amtliche Druckschriften: <br />
RLD 15<br />
Chef Ausbildungswesen der Luftwaffe/General der Fliegerausbildung:<br />
Merkblatt für die Durchführung von Nachtbombenangriffen, 1935<br />
Navigationsaufgaben-Sammlung, 1937<br />
Navigatorische Mitteilungen, 1940-1942<br />
Richtlinien für die Auswahl des fliegenden Personals, 1942<br />
Lehrpläne und Grundlehrmittel für den Berufsschulunterricht der Flugmotorenschlosser und Metallflugzeugbauer, 1943<br />
Kurzlehrgang für Holzflugzeugbauer, 1943-1944<br />
Schul-Kernreihe Luftbildlesen, 1942<br />
Technische Mitteilungen für Waffen und Munition<br />
Inspektion der Flakartillerie/General der Flakwaffe:<br />
Merkblätter über Flakartillerie, 1935<br />
Verfügungen, Erfahrungen und Richtlinien des Generals der Flakwaffe, 1942-1944<br />
Flugzeugtafeln für den Flugzeugerkennungsdienst, 1942, 1944<br />
Inspektion des Erziehungs- und Bildungswesens der Luftwaffe:<br />
Merkblatt für die Einstellung in die Unteroffizierschulen der Luftwaffe, 1941<br />
Sicherheitsbefehle, 1941<br />
Schwere Verstöße gegen die fliegerische Zucht und Ordnung, 1941, 1942<br />
Bodenorganisation der Luftwaffe, 1942<br />
Inspektion für Flugsicherheit und Gerät/Chef für Flugsicherheit:<br />
"Inspektion für Flugsicherheit und Gerät", Teil I-IV, 1936-1941<br />
Inspektion des Luftschutzes:<br />
Ausbildungsvorschrift für Luftschutztruppen, 1935<br />
Bericht über die rotspanischen Luftschutzmaßnahmen in Spanien Nr. 299, 1939<br />
W.L.S.Dv., Der Werkluftschutz, Teil I-X, 1939-1940<br />
Richtlinien für die Sicherstellung der Wasserversorgung im Luftschutz, Heft 1-3, 1939-1941<br />
Bestimmungen für den Bau von Luftschutzbunkern, Heft I-vI, 1941<br />
Sonderanweisung für den Schutz gegen Splitterwirkung von Sprengbomben gegen Gebäudetrümmer und Brandbomben in industriellen und gewerblichen Anlagen, 1942<br />
Bestimmungen für die bauliche Ausführung von Splitterschutz, 1942<br />
Bau-und Betriebsgrundsätze für Scheinanlagen, 1942<br />
Bestimmungen für den Bau von LS-Stollenanlagen, 1943<br />
Bestimmungen für den Bau von LS-Deckungsgrägen, 1943<br />
LS-Baumitteilungen Nr. 1-7, 1944<br />
Belehrungsblätter über feindliche Abwurfmunition, 1944<br />
Merkblatt über Aussehen, Wirkung und Bekämpfung von englischen und russischen Brandabwurfmitteln, 1942<br />
Gasschutz und Luftschutz : Zeitschrift für Gasschutz und Luftschutz der Zivilbevölkerung und für die militärische Gasabwehr. Berlin 1932, 1936-1944<br />
Landesgruppe Ostpreußen des Reichsluftschutzbundes e.V. (Hrsg.) : Luftschutzfibel Berlin ca. 1931, 1937<br />
Inspektion des Sanitätswesens<br />
Sanitätsbericht über die Luftwaffe, 1935-1939<br />
Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiet der Luftfahrmedizin<br />
Anweisungen für Truppenärzte, 1941-1944<br />
Ärztliche Erfahrungen im Luftschutz, 1944
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Literatur: <br />
Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria/Va. Washington 1958 ff., Bde. 13 u. 24<br />
Boog, Horst: Die deutsche Luftwaffenführung 1935-1945. Stuttgart 1982<br />
Endres, Robert: Zum Verbleib der Luftwaffenakten beim Zusammenbruch 1945 und danach, in: Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Hrsg.): 50 Jahre Luftwaffen- und Luftkriegs-Geschichtsschreibung, Freiburg 1970, S. 25-31<br />
Hampe, Erich: Der zivile Luftschutz im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Dokumentation und Erfahrungsberichte über Aufbau und Einsatz. Frankfurt a.M. 1963<br />
Knoche, Heinrich: Die Entwicklung und Organisation des Sanitätswesens der deutschen Luftwaffe 1935-1945. Freiburg 1974

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