[Marcel Hogenhuis]

Dear Harrison,

I agree with Jörn Junker completely because that little bunch of active He219 researchers do agree about the Werkenummer sequences produced and 195xxx were not among these.
If one tries to understand the history of the He219 in reading all what has been written about this nightfighter, everyone is deluded by numerous errors and misconceptions, which seem to increase with each next publication, that's why some people started last year to reconstruct the history with as much primary sources as possible and as a result, several myths and big question marks have been solved.

You are raising a good question how we can be sure:
The initial Schwechat production including 11 of the 12 preproduction prototypes of He219A-0's is for 99,9% sure and well documented in the Heinkel archives, the few uncertainties are the few losses due to allied bomb raids in april and june 1944 and the few He219D-0's of early 1945.
However, with the help of a few known Werkenummer and known deliveries/acceptance numbers, these can be reconstructed pretty well. Nearly all Werkenummer/Stammkennzeichen combinations are now known as well.

The Rostock produced He219's show another picture: except for the very first He219V-1 prototype, the first series produced He219A-0 was delivered 30 April 1944. Though most of the following Werkenummer blocks can be distinguished based on known Werkenummer, known Stammkennzeichen of combinations of these, we must also rely on known first flights and/or transfer dates in flight logs, to define the Rostock production.

All the best,
Marcel Hogenhuis / Venlo