Kampfgeschwader 54

Geschwaderkommodore:

• Ob Walter Lackner, 1.5.39 – 19.5.40
• ObLt. Otto Höhne, 22.6.40 – 22.11.41
• ObLt Walter Marienfeld, 23.11.41 – 31.3.43
• ObLt Volprecht Riedesel Freiherr zu Eisenbach, 1.4.43 – 9.2.45
• Maj Hansgeorg Bätcher, 27.2.45 – 8.4.45

Stab:

Formed 1.5.39 in Fritzlar from Stab/KG254. 1.10.44 redesignated Stab/KG(J)54.

I. Gruppe:

Gruppenkommandeure:

• Maj Otto Höhne, 1.5.39 – 21.6.40
• Hptm Jobst Heinrich von Heydebreck, 22.6.40 – 28.2.41
• Hptm Richard Linke, 1.3.41 – 19.8.41
• Hptm Walter Freimann, 20.8.41 – 10.10.41
• Hptm Hans Widmann, 11.10.41 – 25.10.41
• Hptm Georg Graf von Platen, 26.10.41 – 19.11.42
• ObLt Helmut von Raven, 20.11.42 – 13.4.43
• Hptm Gerhard Molkentin, 14.4.43 – 4.10.43
• Maj Otfried Sehrt, 5.10.43 – 25.3.45
• Hptm Baasner, 26.3.45 – 8.5.45

Formed 1.5.39 in Fritzlar from I./KG254. 1.10.44 redesignated I./KG(J)54.

* 2./KG54 at Neukuhren 8.9.39 – 20.9.39 (Luftwaffen-Lehr-Division)

** a detachment to Eleusis 20.5.42, and the same detachmentmoved to Tympakion/Crete and Derna 1.6.42, and returned to Comiso 21.7.42

II. Gruppe:

Gruppenkommandeure:

• ObLt Rudolf Koester, 12.39 – 20.7.40
• Maj Kurt Leonhardy, 20.7.40 – 11.8.40
• Hptm Karl-Bernhard Schlaeger, 12.8.40 – 8.40
• Hptm Hans Widmann (acting), 8.40 – 14.9.40
• Maj Erhart Krafft von Dellmensingen, 15.9.40 – 17.11.41
• Hptm Heinz Gehrke, 12.41 – 14.2.42
• Hptm Otto Köhnke, 1.3.42 – 27.9.42
• Maj Richard Taubert, 1.10.42 – 28.3.43
• Maj Horst Bressel, 29.3.43 – 23.10.43
• Hptm Karl Palliardi, 24.10.43 – 25.4.44
• Hptm Ernst Petzold, 4.1.45 – 8.5.45

Formed 12.39 in Hoya from II./KG28. Disbanded 30.4.44.

Reformed 5.1.45 in Gardelegen as II./KG(J)54, from IV./KG54. Ordereddisbanded 11.4.45.

* 28.3.45 – 29.4.45 detachment at Prag-Rusin. 4./KG54was detached to Neuburg/Donau between 28.3.45 – 20.4.45.

III. Gruppe:

Gruppenkommandeure:

• Maj Adolf Häring, 1.2.40 – 9.6.40
• Maj Kurt Leonhardy, 10.6.40 – 19.7.40
• Maj Richard Linke, 1.9.42 – 17.9.42
• Maj Kurt Stein, 18.9.42 – 12.10.42
• Hptm Franz Ibold, 15.10.42 – 2.2.43
• Hptm Hermann Donandt, 3.2.43 – 31.3.43
• Maj Franz Zauner, 1.4.43 – 30.9.44
• Hptm Eduard Brogsitter, 1.10.44 – 8.5.45

Formed 1.2.40 in Wiener-Neustadt. Disbanded 7.40.

Reformed 1.9.42 in Catania from Kampfgruppe806. 1.10.44 redesignated III./KG(J)54.

IV. (Ergänzungsgruppe):

Gruppenkommandeure:

• Hptm Hans Widmann, 1.4.41 – 8.10.41
• Hptm Heinz Gehrke, 9.10.41 – 12.41
• Hptm Heinz Krenkel, 12.41 – 30.10.42
• Hptm Franz Zauner, 1.11.42 – 31.3.43
• Hptm Georg Graf von Platen, 1.4.43 – 19.4.43
• Maj Helmut Stamm, 20.4.43 – 4.1.45

The Ergänzungsstaffel/KG54 was formed 11.7.40 in Lagerlechfeld(near Augsburg), and on 1.10.40 became 10./KG54. 11./KG54 was formed 1.3.41.

Gruppenstab IV./KG54 and 12./KG54 was formed 1.4.41, and the Gruppewas now fully formed. On 4.1.45 renamed II./KG(J) 54.