Kommando LSK/LV
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East Germany| Air Forces/Air Defence Command (Kdo LSK/LV) | |
|---|---|
| Kommando Luftstreitkräfte/Luftverteidigung — XXXX — | |
.svg) Troop Colours of the National People's Army | |
| Active | 1 March 1956 – 2 October 1990 |
| Disbanded | 2 October 1990 |
| Country | East Germany |
| Allegiance | National Defence Council |
| Branch | Air Forces |
| Type | Formation |
| Role | Air Force Command |
| Size | c. 1,200 military people and 400 civilians |
| Part of | National People's Army |
| Garrison/HQ | Strausberg |
| Website | Kdo. LSK/LV |
| Insignia | |
| Aircraft Roundel | .svg) |
Front row, from left.: Alfred Vogel, Wolfgang Reinhold, Rolf Berger.
Back row, from left: M. Reifgerste, Ehrenfried Ullmann, Walter Lobner, Heinz Trautsch, Klaus-Jürgen Baarß, Manfred Merkel, Erhard Telle, H. Fritsch.
(l.t.r.: W.Reinhold, H.Kessler, Herbert Scheibe)
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.
Commanding generals of the Kdo LSK/LV NVA
Source:[1]
| 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
- 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 Troops[2]
