Kommando LSK/LV

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:

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 Troops

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.

Divisions and division-sized specified commands

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, Cottbus
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

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