Luftwaffe units before the 1939 invasion of Poland
In peace time these Luftwaffe detachments were based in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia ; but they were moved to advanced bases on the outbreak of hostilities with Poland, the "Fall Weiss" Operation, on September 1, 1939.
Luftwaffe Lehrdivision (Development and Operational Training Division)
Zerstörer (Heavy Fighters)
- I.(Z)/LG.1 (Barth)
Bombers
- Stab/LG.1 (Greifswald)
- I.(K)/LG.1 (Neubrandenburg)
- II.(K)/LG.1 (Schwerin)
- III.(K)/LG.1 (Greifwald)
- 10.(See)/LG.1 (Travermunde)
Dive bombers
- IV.(St.)/LG.1 (Barth)
Luftflotte 1 (Air Fleet 1) Nordostdeutschland (Northeast Germany)
Tactical (Army) Reconnaissance (Heeres-Aufklärungsgruppen)
- 1.(H)/10 (Neuhausen)
- 2.(H)/10 (Neuhausen)
- 1.(H)/11 (Großenhain)
- 1.(H)/21 (Stargard)
- 2.(H)/21 (Stargard)
- 3.(H)/21 (Stargard)
- 4.(H)/21 (Stargard)
- 1.(H)/41 (Reichenberg)
- 2.(H)/41 (Reichenberg)
Strategical Reconnaissance (Fern-Aufklärungsgruppen)
- 3.(F)/10 (Neuhausen)
- 2.(F)/11 (Großenhain)
- 3.(F)/11 (Großenhain)
- 4.(F)/11 (Großenhain)
- 1.(F)/120 (Neuhausen)
- 1.(F)/121 (Prenzlau)
- 2.(F)/121 (Prenzlau)
- 3.(F)/121 (Prenzlau)
- 4.(F)/121 (Prenzlau)
Fighters
Zerstörer (Heavy Fighters)
Bombers
- Stab/KG.1 (Neubrandenburg)
- I./KG.152(II./KG.1) (Neubrandenburg)
- I./KG.1 (Kolberg)
- Stab/KG.2 (Cottbus)
- I./KG.2 (Liegnitz)
- II./KG.2 (Liegnitz)
- Stab./KG.3 (Elbing)
- II./KG.3 (Heiligenbeil)
- III./KG.3 (Heiligenbeil)
- I./KG.25 (Rechlin)
- Stab./KG.4 (Erfurt)
- I./KG.4 (Gotha)
- II./KG.4 (Erfurt)
- III./KG.4 (Nordhausen)
Dive Bombers
- Stab/St. G.1 (Insterburg)
- I./St. G.2 (Cottbus)
- II./St. G.2 (Stolp - Reitz)
- III./St. G.2 (Langensalza)
Land Air Strike (Operative Training)
- II.(Schl)/LG.2 (Tutow)
Luftflotte 2 (Air Fleet 2) Nordwestdeutschland (Northwest Germany)
Tactical Reconnaissance
- 1. (H) / 12 (Münster Loddenheide-)
- 2. (H) / 12 (Münster Loddenheide-)
- 3. (H) / 12 (Münster Loddenheide-)
- 4. (H) / 12 (Münster Loddenheide-)
- 4. (H) / 22 (Kassel-Rothwesten)
Strategical Reconnaissance
- 1.(F)/22 (Kassel-Rothwesten)
- 2.(F)/22 (Kassel-Rothwesten)
- 3.(F)/22 (Kassel-Rothwesten)
- 1.(F)/122 (Goslar)
- 2.(F)/122 (Goslar)
- 3.(F)/122 (Goslar)
Fighters
- I./JG.26 (Cologne-Ostheim)
- II./JG.21 (Düsseldorf)
- 10.(N)/JG.2 (Düsseldorf)
Bombers
- Stab/KG.26 (Lüneburg)
- I./KG.26 (Lübeck-Blankensee)
- II./KG.26 (Lüneburg)
- Stab/KG.27 (Hannover-Langenhagen)
- I./KG.27 (Hannover-Langenhagen)
- II./KG.27 (Wunstorf)
- III./KG.27 (Delmenhorst)
- II./KG.28 (Gütersloh)
Luftflotte 3 (Air Fleet 3) Südwestdeutschland (Southwest Germany)
Tactical Reconnaissance
Fighters
- I./JG.51 (Bad-Aibling)
- I./JG.52 (Böblingen)
- I./JG.53 (Wiesbaden-Erbenhein)
- II./JG.53 (Mannheim-Sandhofen)
- 1./JG.70 (Nürnberg)
- 2./JG.70 (Nürnberg)
- 1./JG.71 (Friedrichshafen)
- 2./JG.71 (Friedrichshafen)
- 10.(N)/JG.72 (Mannheim-Sandhofen)
- 11.(N)/JG.72 (Stuttgart-Echterdingen)
Zerstörer (Heavy Fighters)
- I./ZG.52 (JGr.52) (Illesheim)
Bombers
- Stab/KG.51 (Landsberg)
- I./KG.51 (Landsberg)
- III./KG.51 (Memmingen)
- Stab/KG.53 (Ansbach)
- I./KG.53 (Ansbach)
- II./KG.53 (Schwäbisch Hall)
- III./KG.53 (Giebelstadt)
- Stab./KG.54 (Fritzlar)
- I./KG.54 (Fritzlar)
- Stab/KG.55 (Gießen)
- I./KG.55 (Langendiebach)
- II./KG.55 (Gießen)
Dive Bombers
- III./ST.G.51 (Wertheim am Main)
Luftflotte 4 (Air Fleet 4) Südostdeutschland (Southeast Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia)
Tactical Reconnaissance
- 1.(H)/14 (Kottingbrunn)
- 2.(H)/14 (Kottingbrunn)
- 3.(H)/14 (Kottingbrunn)
- 1.(H)/31 (Brieg)
- 2.(H)/31 (Brieg)
- 4.(H)/31 (Brieg)
Strategical Reconnaissance
- 1.(F)/14 (Kottingbrunn)
- 2.(F)/31 (Brieg)
- 4.(F)/31 (Wiener Neustadt)
Fighters
- I./JG.76 (Wien-Aspern)
- I./JG.77 (Breslau)
- II./JG.77 (Pilsen)
Bombers
- Stab/KG.76 (Wiener Neustadt)
- I./KG.76 (Wiener Neustadt)
- III./KG.76 (Wels)
- Stab/KG.77 (Prag-Kbely)
- I./KG.77 (Prag-Kbely)
- II./KG.77 (Brünn)
- III./KG.77 (Olmutz)
Dive Bombers
- Stab/St. G.77 (Breslau-Schöngarten, today Copernicus Airport Wrocław)
- I./St. G.77 (Brieg)
- II./St. G.77 (Breslau-Schöngarten)
- I./St. G.76 (Graz)
Transport units
- Stab/KGzbV. 1 (Fürstenwalde-Burg)
- I./KGzbV.1 (Burg)
- II./KGzbV.1 (Stendal)
- III./KGzbV.1 (Berlin-Tempelhof)
- IV./KGzbV.1 (Braunschweig)
- Stab/KGzbV.2 (Neuruppin)
- I./KGzbV.2 (Tutow)
- II./KGzbV.2 (Faßberg)
- III./KGzbV.2 (Lechfeld)
- I./KGzbV.172 (Berlin-Tempelhof)
- II./KGzbV.172 (Berlin-Tempelhof)
- 10./KGzbV.172 (Berlin-Tempelhof)
- KGr.zbV.9(Heavy) (Berlin-Tempelhof)
Maritime Reconnaissance, Embarked and Sea regular units
Coastal squadrons
Squadron Embarked in vessel
- 1./BFlGr.196 (Wilhelmshaven)
Baltic Sea area
Coastal squadrons
- Stab/KuFlGr.506(KGr.806) (Dievenow)
- 1.(M)/KuFlGr.506 (Dievenow)
- 2.(F)/KuFlGr.506 (Dievenow)
- 3.(Mz)/KuFlGr.506 (Dievenow)
- Stab/KuFlGr.706 (Kamp bei Kolberg)
- 1.(M)/KuFlGr.706 (Kamp bei Kolberg)
- 3.(Mz)/KuFlGr.706 (Kamp bei Kolberg)
- 2.(F)/KuFlGr.606 (Kamp bei Kolberg)
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