Kampfgeschwader 30

Geschwaderkommodore:

• ObLt Walter Loebel, 15.11.39 – 16.8.40
• Ob Herbert Rieckhoff, 17.8.40 – 20.10.40
• ObLt Erich Bloedorn, 10.40 – 5.43
• ObLt Wilhelm Kern, 18.5.43 – 10.9.43
• ObLt Sigmund-Ulrich Frhr. von Gravenreuth, 9.43 – 16.10.44
• Ob Bernhard Jope, 10.44 – 2.45
• Ob Hanns Heise, 2.45 – 5.45

SOME OF THE DATA, ESPECIALLY FOR NORWAY 1941-42,ARE ONLY ESTIMATES.

Stab:

Formed 15.11.39 in Greifswald. On 23.11.44 redesignated Stab/KG(J)30.Disbanded 18.4.45.

KG(J)30 was to have converted to Me 262A in early 1945, but none weredelivered, due to production shortages.

* possibly at Amsterdam-Schiphol, 6.40.

I. Gruppe:

Gruppenkommandeure:

• Hptm H. Pohle, 22.9.39 – 16.10.39
• Hptm Doench, 1940
• Hptm Lau, 1941
• Hptm Jacob Schmidt, ? – 26.4.42
• Ob Alerich Hofmann, ? – 28.12.42
• Maj Freiherr von Blomberg, ? – 28.10.43
• Hptm Schulz, 1943 – 1944

Formed 22.9.39 in Jever from I./KG25. On 23.11.44 redesignated I./KG(J)30.Disbanded 18.4.45.

* Stavanger-Sola was used as a forward base, 4.40 – 1.5.40.

** 2./KG30 was only at Aalborg-West, 28.7.40 – 11.8.40

*** via Aalborg

*** detachments at Kemi; 1. and 3./KG30 was stationedat Eindhoven, 1.12.41 – 11.4.42; after 4.42 many missions, were flown fromPetsamo and Kemi

***** parts in Varel, 28.6.44 – 8.7.44

****** parts in Pardubitz, 10.44 – 11.44

II. Gruppe:

Gruppenkommandeure:

• Hptm Kinkelbein, 12.39 – 1940
• Hprm von Symonski, ? – 8.10.40
• Hptm Erich Hass, 9.10.40 – 16.10.40
• Hptm Sigmund-Ullrich Freiherr von Gravenreuth, ? – 11.4.42
• Hptm Erich Stoffregen, ? – 14.1.43
• Maj Pflüger, 1943 – 1944
• Hptm Greve, 1944

Formed 1.12.39 in Barth (ordered 23.9.39). On 23.11.44 redesignatedII./KG(J)30. Disbanded 18.4.45.

* 4./KG30 at Aalborg-West, 7.8.40 – 11.8.40.

** 4./KG30 at Stavanger ( 23.5.41 – 16.8.41), and at Banak(16.8.41 – 30.9.41); 6./KG30 to Banak 12.6.41, to Kirkenes 22.6.41, andreturned to Stavanger 16.8.41.

*** 4./KG30 to Stavanger 21.12.41, to Kemi 2.42

**** 6./KG30 remained at Kemi until 13.11.42.

***** parts at Pardubitz, 10.44 – 11.44.

III. Gruppe:

Gruppenkommandeure:

• Hptm Mahrenholtz, 1.1.40 – 1940
• Hptm Crüger, 1940
• Hptm Kollewe, 1940
• Maj Hackbarth, ? – 9.9.40
• Maj Schumann, 1941 – 8.41
• Hptm Hajo Hermann, 8.41 – 19.7.42
• Maj Werner Baumbach, 7.42 –

Formed 1.1.40 in Barth. On 15.10.40 III./KG30 was redesignated ErgänzungskampfgruppeJu 88, and was reformed in Amsterdam-Schiphol from III./KG4.Disbanded 8.6.44.

Reformed 23.11.44 in Pardubitz as III./KG(J)30. Disbanded 18.4.45.

* 7./KG30 to Trondheim-Vaernes. 8./KG30 frequently usedKemi; Stab III, 7. and 8./KG30 frequently used Banak

IV. Gruppe:

Formed 10.40 in Ludwigslust. Disbanded 23.11.44.

* 13./KG30 was based at Grove, 10.44 – 2.45.

Erprobungsstaffel:

Staffelkapitän:

• Hptm Gotthardt, 1941

Formed in 1940. Apparently disbanded after 11.42.

Zerstörerstaffel:

Staffelkapitän:

• Olt Herbert Bönsch, 3.40 – 1.7.40

Formed 3.40 in Perleberg. On 1.7.40 redesignated 4./NJG1.