The Kommando Luftstreitkräfte/Luftverteidigung (Kdo LSK/LV) was the Air Force Staff - and simultaneously the Air Force Command of the National People's Army (NPA), the Air Force of the former German Democratic Republic.
The main task of the Kdo LSK/LV was to provide Command, Control and Communications (C3) to the military branch as the whole, as well as to the subordinated division-sized specified commands, groups, organizations, and units of the NVA's Air Force. Under deployment conditions, and in line with the situation awareness C3 had to be executed from the Main Air Force Operations Center, the so-called Zentraler Gefechtsstand 14 (ZGS-14) in Fürstenwalde, the Rear Operations Center (Rückwärtige Führungsstaffel - RFS) in Beeskow (Ranzig), or the Interim Operations Center (Hilfsführungsstelle - HFS) in Strausberg (Eggersdorf).
The Kdo LSK/LV was established in 1950, and was disbanded together with the NVA in 1990. Its legal successor was the 5. Luftwaffendivision of the Bundeswehr.
Command and organisation
Commanding generals of the Kdo LSK/LV NVA Source:Chefs der LSK/LV auf der Homepage des Militärarchivs; eingesehen am 6. Juni 2009
Military rank, name Period of service Remark Colonel Heinz Keßler 1950–1952 after Volkspolizei Luft Major General Heinz Keßler 1952−1955 after Verwaltung Aeroklubs Major General Heinz-Bernhard Zorn 1956–1957 after Verwaltung der LSK Colonel Gerhard Bauer 1956–1957 after Verwaltung der LV Colonel General Heinz Keßler 1957–1967 Kommando LSK/LV Lieutenant General Herbert Scheibe 1967–1972 Kommando LSK/LV Colonel General Wolfgang Reinhold 1972–1989 Kommando LSK/LV Lieutenant General Rolf Berger 1989–1990 Kommando LSK/LV
Organisation The command was composed by the following establishment:
Deputy Minister and Commander-in-chief LSK/LV (3 star level) with the chief's office, flight planning and military advisor Deputy of the Commander LSK/LV (DC LSK/LV) and Chief of the Political Division (2 star level) with Three branches including Chief Party Control Commission (de: PKK), Central Party Leadership (de: ZPL), Spec-Propaganda, and Political Branch of the Kdo LSK/LV DC LSK/LV and Chief of Staff (CS) (2 star level) with Assistant Chief Of Staff (ACOS) and A3 (1 star level) with Branch 1 (4 sections; section EW, Counter Measures (de: GTAG), 3 radio electronic control vehicles; section military topography) Branch 2 Combat Operations Center (de: GFZ) ACOS and Chief and Automation (de: GSA) (1 star level) with Branch Operations Centres (de: GS] Branch C2 Mechanisation and Automation, IT (de: MAT DV) Operations Training and Education Center (de: OTAZ) ACOS and Chief General Tasks with Staff company, guard company and vehicle company Chief A1 with PTA and WTA Chief Organization/Replenishment with Branch Organization Branch Replenishment Chief RECON Chief General-Military Training and Schools (de: AMAS) Chief A6 and ATC with Branches 1, 2 and 8th section Chief Mil Scientific (de: MiWi) Chief Chemical Services (de: CD) DC LSK/LV and Chief Military - and Transport Aviation (de. MTFK) (2 star level) with Chief Aviation Procurement and Maintenance (de: FID) (1 star level) Chief Front Aviation Chief Transport Aviation Chief Helicopter Search and Rescue (SAR), senior air traffic controller, parachute service DC LSK/LV and Chief Air Defence (2 star level) with Chief SAM Forces (de. FRT) Chief Fighter Air Craft Aviation (de: JFK) DC LSK/LV and Chief A4 (de. RD) (2 star level) with AC and CS A4 (1 Star level) Chief Medical Service Chief Combat Engineer Service Chief Military Architecture Accommodation (de: MBU) Chief Military Transport (de: MTW) Chief Closing and Equipment (de: BA) Chief Tactical Air Command and Control Service (TACCS) (de. FuTT) (1 star level) with Chief Engineering TACCS
Safeguarding, counterintelligence, prevention of anti-state agitation Administration 2000: - This was the name for the Main Division I of the Stasi (Ministry for State Security), responsible for the National People's Army and the Border TroopsHauptabteilung I: NVA und Grenztruppen Der Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (BStU).
Subordination A decisive number of division-sized specified commands, groups, organizations, units and military formations have been under direct control of the Kommando LSK/LV.Joachim Nawrocki: Bewaffnete Organe in der DDR : Nationale Volksarmee and andere militärische sowie paramilitärische Verbände. Aufbau, Bewaffnung, Aufgaben. Berichte aus dem Alltag. Holzapfel Verlag, Berlin 1979, .
Divisions and division-sized specified commands Führungsorgan Front- u. Militärtransportfliegerkräfte (FO FMTFK) 1. Luftverteidigungsdivision (1. LVD) 3. LVD
Groups, organizations, units and military formations Units directly subordinated to the Kommando LSK/LV normally had numbers ending at 4. The first unit was -14, a second unit of the same kind was -24 etc.
Amt für Luftraumkoordinierung (ALK), Berlin Auswerte-, Rechen- und Informationsgruppe 14 (ARIG-14), Fürstenwalde Chemische Werkstatt und Lager 14 (ChWL-14), Storkow, Brandenburg Druckerei 14, Strausberg Fla-Raketenwerkstatt und -lager 14 (FRWL-14), Pinnow, Brandenburg Fliegertechnisches Lager 14 (FTL-14), Krugau Flugplatz-Pionierbataillon 14 (FPiB-14) „Franz Dahlem“, Potsdam Flugzeugreparaturwerkstatt 14 (FRW-14), Cottbus Flugzeugreparaturwerkstatt 24 (FRW-24), Kamenz Institut für Luftfahrtmedizin (IfLM), Königsbrück Kfz-Instandsetzungswerkstatt 14 (KfzIW-14), Kamenz Kfz-Kompanie 14 (KfzK-14), Strausberg Kfz-Transportkompanie 34 (KfzTK-14), Krugau Kompanie Chemische Abwehr 14 (KChA-14), Waldsieversdorf Konditionsheim, Rugiswalde Konditionszentrum 14, Benneckenstein Labor für Treib- und Schmierstoffe 14, Cottbus Lazarett LSK/LV, Cottbus Militärtechnische Schule der Luftstreitkräfte/Luftverteidigung (MTS LSK/LV) „Harry Kuhn“ (Air and Air Defense Forces Technical Academy "Harry Kuhn"), Bad Düben Nachrichtenregiment 14 (NR-14) „Harro Schulze-Boysen“, Waldsieversdorf Nachrichten- und Flugsicherungs-Werkstatt und Lager 14 (NFWL-14), Cottbus Offiziershochschule für Militärflieger „Otto Lilienthal", Bautzen Fliegerausbildungsgeschwader 15 (FAG-15) „Heinz Kapelle“, Rothenburg/Oberlausitz Fliegertechnisches Bataillon 15 (FTB-15), Rothenburg Nachrichten- und Flugsicherungsbataillon 15 (NFB-15), Rothenburg Fliegerausbildungsgeschwader 25 (FAG-25) „Leander Ratz“, Bautzen Fliegertechnisches Bataillon 25 (FTB-25), Bautzen Nachrichten- und Flugsicherungsbataillon 25 (NFB-25), Bautzen Transportfliegerausbildungsstaffel 45 (TAS-45), Kamenz Fliegertechnisches Bataillon 45 (FTB-45), Kamenz Hubschrauberausbildungsgeschwader 35 (HAG-35) „Lambert Horn“, Brandenburg-Briest Fliegertechnisches Bataillon 35 (FTB-35), Brandenburg-Briest Offiziershochschule der Luftstreitkräfte/Luftverteidigung „Franz Mehring" (Air and Air Defense Forces Officer Cadet School), Kamenz Musikkorps der OHS der LSK/LV, Kamenz Pionierbataillon 24 (PiB-24) „Ludwig Renn“, Potsdam Pionierwerkstatt und -lager 14 (PiWL-14), Briest Rechenzentrale 14 (RZ-14), Strausberg Stabsmusikkorps der LSK/LV, CottbusOberstleutnant a.D. Musikdirektor Werner Kunath: Zur Geschichte der Militärmusik in der NVA. In: Informationsheft Nr. 20 der Arbeitsgruppe Geschichte der NVA und Integration ehemaliger NVA-Angehöriger in Gesellschaft und Bundeswehr im Landesvorstand Ost des DBwV vom November 2007 (PDF, 148KB) Technisches Versorgungslager 34 (TVL-34), Doberlug-Kirchhain Treib- und Schmierstofflager 14 (TSL-14), Hähnichen Treib- und Schmierstofflager 24 (TSL-24), Lohmen Treib- und Schmierstofflager 34 (TSL-34), Utzedel Treib- und Schmierstofflager 44 (TSL-44), Niederlehme Topographisches Lager, Stallberg Transportfliegergeschwader 44 (TG-44) „Arthur Pieck“, Diepensee/Marxwalde Fliegertechnisches Bataillon 44 (FTB-44), Marxwalde Verbindungsfliegerstaffel 14 (VS-14), Strausberg Fliegertechnische Kompanie 14 (FTK-14), Strausberg Vereinigte Hauptzentrale 14 (VHZ-14), Wünsdorf Versorgungslager 14 (VL-14), Görlitz Waffenwerkstatt und Lager 14, Bautzen Wartungseinheit 14 (WE-14), Ranzig Zentraler Gefechtsstand 14 (ZGS-14), Fürstenwalde/Spree
References
External links Übersicht zu den DDR-Luftstreitkräften auf www.ddr-luftwaffe.de