Fliegerhorst Breslau Gandau

[besslein]

Any Information Abaut This Unit?

[besslein]

[Adrian Stevenson]

Not a unit but an airfield.

It is mentioned here in a unit history:

http://www.mizsio.pl/kriegstagebuecher/ktb02.html

Cheers, Ade.

[Larry deZeng]

Any Information Abaut This Unit?

Have you tried Google? I just did and got 199 hits, of which the first 10 looked quite promising.

--Larry

[Gerdan]

In the German publication

Ries/Dierich, "Fliegerhorste und Einsatzhäfen der Luftwaffe"

is a short description of Breslau-Gandau a/f :

"Breslau-Gandau/Schles., 5Km WNW Stadt; Verkehrslandeplatz, 1932

Zollflughafen I. Ordnung;

Mitbenutzung als Industrieflughafender der Firma Junkers.

(5107 30 N - 1658 40 O)"

They even give a map of the a/f.

Gerdan

[besslein]

Have you tried Google? I just did and got 199 hits, of which the first 10 looked quite promising.

--Larry

yes i have tried befor google,but nothing special for me
nice storys and so but no good informations abaut the luftwaffe unit

[Larry deZeng]

Breslau-Gandau (GER) (5 km WNW of Breslau/Silesia in SE Germany)
Commercial landing field; 1932 designated a customs airport of the 1st Order; shared with the Junkers aviation firm which used in as an industrial airfield. Had a Luftwaffe airfield administrative command (Fliegerhorstkommandantur A Breslau-Gandau) that grew in size over the course of the war but never received a number, or at least no evidence has been found that it did. Horstkommandanten:
Maj. Paul Kästner ( ? - ? ) 4/41
Hptm. Schlitt ( ? - ? ) 6/41
Oberst Wolfgang Wehl ( ? - 24 Aug 43)


At Breslau-Gandau:
Auffanglager d.Lw. Breslau-Gandau: 01.43

I have done a comprehensive search of my files and books and come to the conclusion that there was very little Luftwaffe activity at Breslau-Gandau. The airfield virtually belonged to Junkers. I can find no evidence that there was even any Flak there until the second half of 1944. By far, the main Luftwaffe airfield there was Breslau-Schöngarten.

--Larry