[Doug Stankey]

Adolf:

You seem to be a transport specialist!

Here is our file for this fellow:

LESSING, Hermann.
(DOB: 20.10.00).
1921 in Reichsmarine.
(n.d.) transferred to Luftwaffe.
1937 Hptm./Maj., Staka 1./Bordfl.Gr. 196, Wilhelmshaven (to Oct 39).
10.39 appt Kdr. Kü.Fl.Gr. 706 (to 06.40).
c.22.03.40 appt Lufttransportführer (See) (to c.05.05.40).
07.40 appt Kdr. Kü.Fl.Gr. 906 (to 06.42).
01.04.42 as Obstlt.
07.42 Verbindungsoffizier (Liaison Officer) OKL to OKM/Skl. (to 10.42).
26.10.42 Oberst, awarded Ehrenpokal.
09.02.43 Oberst, in XIII. Fliegerkorps, appt Kdr. Navigationschule Strausberg (to 06.43).
30.06.43 reassigned from the Luftwaffe to the Kriegsmarine and posted to the Kommandierender Admiral der Unterseeboote effective 01.07.43 (for the duration).
[15.07.43 Oberst, appt Kdr. SAGr. 130 (Tromsø) (to c.04.44?)]?

We hope that this helps you.

HLdZ
DGS



Byron, here are the commanders of the requested units that our files can reveal:

Kommodores of Stab/KG.z.b.V. 1:
Obstlt. Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik (26.08.39 - nlt 01.05.41).
Obstlt. Henning (Gustav?) Wilke (RK) (05.41 - 29.07.42).
Oberst Rudolf Trautvetter (01.08.41 - nlt 09.12.41).
Maj./Obstlt./Oberst Otto-Lutz Förster (R) (08.12.41 - 31.12.42).
Oberst Karl Drewes (01.01.43 - 06.04.43).
Oberst Adolf-Herbert Jäckel (DKG) (07.04.43 - 05.43).

Staka in KG.z.b.V. 1:
Obstlt. Karl Drewes (26.08.39 - ?). - sounds wrong

Kdr. I./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Oberst Dr. Max Ziervogel (26.08.39 - 20.12.39).
Maj. /Obstlt. Karl-Georg Witt (22.11.39 - 30.08.40). -probably should read (22.12.39 - 30.08.40).
Maj. Adolf-Herbert Jäckel (31.08.40 - 06.05.41).
Maj. Otto-Lutz Förster (07.05.41 - 07.12.41).
Maj. Ernst Mäss (02.42 - 05.43). then Kdr. I./TG 1

Staka 1./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Oblt. Günter Mauss (? - 01.40 - nlt 1941).

Staka 2./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Unknown

Staka 3./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Unknown

Staka 4./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Unknown

Kdr. II. / KG.z.b.V. 1:
Obstlt. Karl Drewes (1940? - 12.40).
Maj.? Lindemann (? - ?).
Hptm. Arnold Willerding (01.41 - 07.41).
Obstlt. Guido Neundlinger (DKG) (c.08.41 - 17.05.43).
Maj. Franz Stipschitsch (c.03.43 - 01.05.43). - then Kdr II./TG 1.

Staka in II./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Oblt. Lorenz Möller (R) (? - 02.04.42 - ?).
Oblt./Hptm. Hans-Jochen Dahms (01.05.39 - nlt 14.07.40).

Staka 5./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Unknown

Staka 6./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Unknown

Staka 7./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Hptm. Günter Capito (? - 09.04.40 -?).

Staka 8./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Unknown.

Kdr. III./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Hptm. Markus Zeidler (01.03.40 - 01.09.40).
Maj./Obstlt. Rudolf Starke (02.09.40 - 05.41?).
Obstlt./Oberst Walter Schroeder (c.06.41 - 10.42? - 1943?). -periodically acting?
Maj. Siegfried Hagena (DKG?) (15.10.42 - c.012.05.43) - continued as Kdr. III./TG 1

Staka in III./KG.z.b.V. 1:
Oblt. Walter Meltzer (DKG, R). (? - 12.42 - ?).
Oberst Walter Schroeder (1943?).
Hptm. Artur von Casimir (08.11.39 -02.40).

Staka 9./KG.z.b.V. 1:
Hptm. Wilhelm Eifler (? - 10.05.40 KIA).
Oblt.? Hans-Heinrich von Grohmann (1941).

Staka 10./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Hptm. Gustav Hauck (? - 10.05.40 POW).

Staka 11./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Hptm. Fridolin Fath (? - 09.41 - nlt 01.42).

Staka 12./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Hptm. Paul Dreikorn (? - 10.05.40 KIA).

Kdr. IV./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Maj. Johannes Janzen (? - 01.09.39 - nlt 01.03.40).
Hptm.d.R. Julius-Theodor Jansen (26.08.39 - 21.11.39). -obviously this is being confused with Janzen?
Hptm./Maj. Theodor Beckmann (DKG, RK). (01.04.40 - 12.42).
Maj. Theodor Scheuring (c.01.43 - c.01.43) . -acting.
Hptm./Maj. Fridolin Fath (DKG, RK). (01.42 - 15.01.43).
Maj. Kurt Schneidenberger (16.01.43 - c.01.05.43). - became Kdr. IV./TG 1

Staka in IV./KG.z.b.V. 1:
Oblt. Rudolf Burkheiser (1941 - 22.06.41?WIA).

Staka 13./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Oblt. Ernst Zechlin (? - 10.05.40 POW). -soon repatriated
Oblt. Johann-Bruno Lepek (? - 06.41 - ?).
Maj. Theodor Scheuring (? - 02.43 - ?).

Staka 14./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Unknown

Staka 15./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Hptm. Artur von Casimir (05.09.39 - 15.10.39) - temporary duty
Oblt. Kurt Lastig (? - 10.05.40 POW).
Oblt./Hptm. Heinz Stumke (? - 01.11.42 - ?1943).

Staka 16./ KG.z.b.V. 1:
Unknown

Staka 17./KG.z.b.V. 1:
Unknown


K.Gr.z.b.V. 40 - (03.41 - 06.41). > dissolved
Kdr. - K.Gr.z.b.V. 40
Obstlt.? Ernst Deutsch (03.41 - 14.05.41 MIA).


K.Gr.z.b.V. 60 - (03.41 - 06.41) > dissolved
Kdr - K.Gr.z.b.V. 60
Maj. Walter Hammer (03.41 - 06.41)


K.G.z.b.V. 101 - (03.40 - 06.41). > disbanded

Kdr. KGr.z.b.V. 101:
Obstlt. Ernst Mundt (c.15.03.40 - 15.05.41 - ?).

Staka in KGr.z.b.V. 101:
Hptm. Karl Thomas (? - 24.03.41 WIA - ?nlt 25.02.42).
Hptm. Helmut Wiegand (? - 04.41 - 20.05.41 MIA).
Maj. Arnold Feierabend (? - 04.41 - 20.05.41 KIA).

No other Staka of 101 are known.


Kdr. KGr.z.b.V. 102:
Oberst Wilhelm Baur de Betaz (RkHS) (29.03.40 - nlt 21.09.40).
Maj. ? von Zamson (02.09.40 - 04.41?).
Hptm. Reinhard Wenning (02.09.40 - 19.12.41).
Obstlt. Walter Erdmann (c.04.41 - 01.01.43).
Maj. Paul Risch (DKG) (1941-1943).
Maj. Josef Penkert (? - 03.43 - ?).

Staka 1./KGr.z.b.V. 102:
Maj. Gustav Damm (1940).
Oblt. Werner Herty (? - 04.41 - nlt 09.41). -implied, possibly only acting.

Staka 2./KGr.z.b.V. 102:
Hptm. Reinhold Oelze (? - 08.40 - nlt 03.41).

Staka 3./KGr.z.b.V. 102:
Oblt. Walter Bradel (? - 04.40 - nlt 07.40).