seefliegerhorstkommandentur

[Jacob Andreasen]

Hi
Can anyone help me with this stamp in a 1938 dated M35 DD LW helmet.

//Jacob

[Larry deZeng]

Seefliegerhorstkommandantur Jever

What do you need help with? It seems pretty clear to me, except for the misspelled letter (underlined).

[Jacob Andreasen]

Yes, that much in can manege, but where is it located, any informations on it. I have been searching the internet, and nothing found.

//Jacob

[Gerdan]

Hi Jacob,

Jever is situated in the north of Germany east of Wilhelmshaven (important German port), close to the North Sea. You can say it's between Wilhelmshaven and the Netherlands.

Gerdan

[Jacob Andreasen]

Thanks

//Jacob

[Larry deZeng]

What I find very troubling in all this is that Jever was never a Seefliegerhorst. There is no water any where near Jever. The airfield, located at 53 32 10 North x 07 52 30 East, was nothing more than a grass landing field 4 km south of Jever. Furthermore, there is no record of it ever being designated as a Seefliegerhorst, which would have been ludicrous. It was initially designated as a Fliegerhorstkommandantur, then as an Einsatzhafen, and lastly as Platzkommando. There used to be a web site that had excellent little histories and "then and now" photos of most wartime Luftwaffe airfields, but it appears to have disappeared since the last time I was there: aol.com/fliegerhorste/

Because it was a rather insignificant airfield, there isn’t a lot on it, but here is what I have:

Jever (GER) (14 km WNW of Wilhelmshaven in Lower Saxony)
Ordered established as a Lw. Fliegerhorstkommandantur by 1 October 1936.
See: Fl.H.Kdtr. A(o) 13/XI; Fl.Pl.Kdo. C 13/XI.

Fliegerhorstkommandantur A(o) 13/XI
Formed March 1944 at Fp. Marx/20 km SW of Wilhelmshaven by renaming Fl.Pl.Kdo. A 9/XI. Under Koflug 9/XI (Delmenhorst).
1 Jan 45: Marx under Koflug 22/XI (Jever) with Platzkommandos Helgoland and Jever. Believed to have remained at Marx until the area overrun by Canadian forces in late April 1945.
FpN: (none assigned)
Kommandant:
Oberst Karl Volbehr ( ? - Apr 45)

Fliegerhorstkommandantur A(o) 13/XI Platzkommando Helgoland
1944-45 on the island of Helgoland off the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein.
FpN: (none assigned)
Kommandant:

Fliegerhorstkommandantur A(o) 13/XI Platzkommando Jever
1944-45 at Fp. Jever/15 km NW of Wilhelmshaven.
FpN: (none assigned)
Kommandant:

There is also a series of books produced by Jürgen Zapf and published by VDM Heinz Nickel Verlag in Zweibrücken that in 8 or 10 volumes will cover all of the Luftwaffe airfields in Germany. Unfortunately, the volume for Niedersachsen has yet to appear.

--BHS1956

[Larry deZeng]

Postscript -


After much searching, I found the German web site I referred to above. It changed its URL and that's why I couldn't find it:

http://www.relikte.com/jever/index.htm

There is some additional information here on the airfield, but most importantly it confirms that it never had anything to do with seaplanes.

--BHS1956