Jagdgeschwader 7

"Windhunde"

Version_2006_01_09 : 16 pics
Activated 25. August 1944 with Stab, I. and II. Gruppe out of Stab, II. und III. Gruppe of Kampfgeschwaders 1 "Hindenburg".
The Geschwaderstab kept this name.
The unit received the Me 262 in 1945.

 

 

Reichsverteidigung

Units which had the order to protect the Homeland ("Reich"), received a fuselage band.

Other than before, these were now not a marking for a special place or theatre, but a recognizing help for each unit,
and each had its own colors for the band.

The Reichsverteidigungsband of Jagdgeschwader 7 was blue/red

   

In the final stages of the war, when the Luftwaffe was already forced to move back to Germany, the units were reorganized.

Now a Gruppe contained 4 Staffeln.

JG 7 was formed, when the 4-Staffel-System was already the common organisation.

 

 

Geschwaderstab
1944, August 25    -   Formed out of Stab / Kampfgeschwader 1 "Hindenburg"
The Geschwaderstab kept this Name.
1944, August 25   -   Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14 (?)   -   Germany
(<<-+- )
Geschwaderkommodore
Oberstleutnant Johannes Steinhoff
(1944, August 25 =>)
1945, February 6   -   Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a SCHWALBE   -   Briest, Brandenburg, Germany
(<<-+- )
Geschwaderkommodore
Major Theodor Weissenberg
(1945, January 1. =>)		 2 (<-+ )
Geschwader 1A		 3 (<+ )
Geschwaderadjutant		 4 (<II+ )
Geschwader TO (?)

1 (<<+I)
Geschwaderkommodore i.V. [acting]
Major Rudolf Sinner
(1945, February 19. =>)
Tactical Markings of his origin position:
Gruppenkommandeur III./-
2 (<-+ )
Geschwader 1A
Major Ehrler
3 (<+ )
Geschwaderadjutant
Hauptmann Erich Mikat
4 (-+-)
Geschwaderkommodore
Major Theodor Weissenberg
=> in this plane (?)

 

 

I. Gruppe
Gruppenstab 1. Staffel 2. Staffel 3. Staffel 4. Staffel
1944, August 25    -   Formed out of II. / Kampfgeschwader 1 "Hindenburg"
This Gruppe changed with II./JG 3 (when?)
1944   -   Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14 (?)
(<<+   )
Gruppenkommandeur
Hauptmann Gerhard Baeker
 August 1944

Gruppenkommandeur
Major Theo Weissenberger
 25.November 1944

Gruppenkommandeur
Major Erich Rudorffer
 14.Januar 1945

- - - -
1945, February 6   -   Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a SCHWALBE   -   Briest, Germany
(<<+   )
Gruppenkommandeur
(15)
Obfr. Rolf Prigge		 - - -
1945, February 6   -   Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a SCHWALBE   -   Kaltenkirchen, Northern Germany
(<<+   )
Gruppenkommandeur		 - -
(3+_)
Staffelkapitaen
Oberleutnant
Hans Waldmann		 -
1945, April/Mai   -   Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a SCHWALBE   -   Saaz, Germany
(<<+   )
Gruppenkommandeur (i.V.)
Oberleutnant Fritz Stehle
April 1945		  
(4+_)
-
(5+_)
Unteroffizier Anton Schoppler		 -
1945, April/Mai   -   Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a SCHWALBE   -   Prag-Ruzine & Czechoslovakia
(<<+   )
Gruppenkommandeur
Major Wolfgang Spaete
April 1945 		- -
(8+_) (W.Nr.112385)
-		 -
- - -
(17+_) (W.Nr.500210)
Leutnant Hans Dorn		 -

 

 

II. Gruppe
1944, August 25    -   Formed out of III. / Kampfgeschwader 1 "Hindenburg"
Gruppenstab 5. Staffel 6. Staffel 7. Staffel 8. Staffel
1944   -   Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14 (?)
(<<+-)
Gruppenkommandeur
Hermann Staiger
12.Januar 1945 		- - - -
1944, November 1944   -   renamed IV./Jagdgeschwader 301 "Hindenburg"
A new II./JG 7 was first formed new out of the rest of IV./Kampfgeschwader 54 on February 7, 1945
- - - - -
1945, February 6   -   Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a SCHWALBE   -   Schleswig, Northern Germany
(<<+-)
Gruppenkommandeur
Hauptmann Burkhard
X. Februar 1945

(<<+-)
Gruppenkommandeur
Major Hans Klemm
15.April 1945 - 8.Mai 1945

- - - -

 

 

III. Gruppe
The III. Gruppe was built new out of "Kommando Nowotny"
Gruppenstab 9. Staffel 10. Staffel 11. Staffel 12. Staffel
1944, November   -   Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14

(<<+I)
Gruppenkommandeur
Major Erich Hohagen
19. November 1944

 - -
(10+I)		 -
1945, February 6   -   Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a SCHWALBE   -   Parchim, Germany

(<<+I)
Gruppenkommandeur
Major Rudolf Sinner
Note the green "1",
 because he was also
Geschwaderkommodore i.V. [acting]
(1945, February 19. =>)		 -
(1)
Staffelkapitaen
Leutnant Franz Schall		 - -
1945, April/Mai   -   Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a SCHWALBE   -   Briest, Brandenburg, Germany

(<<+I)
Gruppenkommandeur
Hauptmann Johannes Naumann
5. April 1945

 - - - -
1945, April/Mai   -   Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a SCHWALBE   -   Prag-Ruzine
- - -
(3+I)
Oberfeldwebel Hermann Buchner		 -
- - -
(7+I)
Oberfeldwebel Heinz Arnold		 -
- - -
(8+I)
-		 -

 

 

IV. Gruppe
A IV. Gruppe was formed on May 3, 1945 out of the Jagdverband 44.
Gruppenstab 13. Staffel 14. Staffel 15. Staffel 16. Staffel
1945, Mai   -   Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a SCHWALBE   -   Germany
- - - - -

 

 

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