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Nachtjagdgeschwader 11

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Version: 16-12-09 (D-M-Y) - 11 pics

 

 

 

 

Geschwaderstab (A)
Geschwaderkommodore:
  • None
Never Formed

 

 

 

I. Gruppe
Gruppenkommandeur:
  • Major Friedrich-Karl Mueller, 26.8.44 - 8.5.45
1944, January 1   -   Formed with 3 staffeln at Werneuchen, Germany.
Note: On this site, the Staffeln are one under the other, because their ways were too different.
All parts of NJGr.10 served under 1. Jagddivision until the end.

Gruppenstab (B)
1944, January 1   -   Formed at Werneuchen, Germany
1944, January   -   Messerschmitt Bf 109G  -   Werneuchen, Germany
 ?+  
Gruppenkommandeur I. Gruppe
1944, August   -   Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14   -   Werneuchen, Germany

Bf 109G-14  3+  
Gruppenkommandeur I. Gruppe
Major Friedrich-Karl Mueller
1945, March 31   -   ....
 

1. Staffel
 (H)
1944, August 28   -   Formed from parts of 6./JG300 (Nachtjagdkommando Ploener) in Lippstadt, Germany
2. Jagddivision
1944, August 28   -   Focke-Wulf FW 190A/Bf 109   -   Lippstadt and Köthen, Germany
 ?+  
1944, November   -   Focke-Wulf FW 190/Bf 109   -   Fassberg, Germany

Bf 109G-10/AS  11+  
Bonn-Hangelar
1945, January 4   -   Redesignated 7./NJG11
1945, January    -   Reformed at Echterdingen from 2./NJG11
7. Jagddivision
1945, January    -   Focke-Wulf FW 190/Bf 109   -   Echterdingen, Germany

Bf 109K-4  5+  
May 1945
1945, March 31   -   Was absorbed by 2./NJG11
 

 

2. Staffel
 (K)
1944, August 28   -  Formed from parts of 1./NJGr.10 at Bonn-Hangelar, Germany
3. Jagddivision
1944, August 28   -   Focke-Wulf FW 190A/Bf 109   -   Bonn-Hangelar, Germany
 ?+   
1944, September   -   Focke-Wulf FW 190/Bf 109   -   Darmstadt-Griesheim, Germany
 ?+   
1945, January   -   became 1./NJG11
1945, March 31    -   Reformed at Echterdingen from parts of III./NJG11 and 1./NJG11
7. Jagddivision
1945, March    -   Focke-Wulf FW 190/Bf 109   -   Echterdingen, Germany
 ?+   
1945, March 31   -   Was absorbed by 2./NJG11
 

3. Staffel
 (L)
1944, October 27   -  Formed from parts of 1./NJGr.10 at Bonn-Hangelar, Germany
3. Jagddivision
1944, August 28   -   Focke-Wulf FW 190A/Bf 109   -   Bonn-Hangelar, Germany
detachment at Twente
 ?+   
1945, January 4   -   Redesignated 8./NJG11

 

 

 

 

II. Gruppe
Gruppenkommandeure:
  • Hptm Finkeldey(?), 11.44 - 4.45

Gruppenstab (C)

4. Staffel

5. Staffel

6. Staffel
1944, November 30   -   Formed at Jueterbog-Waldlager from 10./JG300 (25 aircraft)
3. Jagddivision
1944, November 30   -   Focke-Wulf FW 190A & Bf 109G-10/AS   -   Jueterbog-Waldlager, Germany
detachments at Koethen
 ?+-    ?+-  
Bf 109G-10/AS  2+-  
Major Friedrich-Karl Müller		  ?+-  
On 31.3.45 reduced to 4./NJG11, while 5./NJG11 in Koethen was absorbed by 7./NJG11.
XXX
Bf 109G-10/AS  44+-  
Fassberg(?) , May 1945		 XXX XXX
1945, late April   -   Disbanded.

 

 

 

 

III. Gruppe
Gruppenkommandeure:
  • Hptm Krause, 12.1.45 - 8.5.45

Gruppenstab (D)

7. Staffel (R)

8. Staffel (S)

9. Staffel (T)
1945, January 4   -   Formed at Bonn-Hangelar
? from 3./NJG11 from 1./NJG11 from parts of the Erg.NJ.Gr.
Under 1. Jagddivision in central Germany:
1945, January 4   -   Focke-Wulf FW 190A/Bf 109   -   Bonn-Hangelar
 ?+I   ?+I   ?+I   ?+I 
1945, March 2   -   Focke-Wulf FW 190A/Bf 109   -   Bad Lippspringe
 ?+I   ?+I   ?+I   ?+I 
Under 2. Jagddivision in northern Germany:
1945, March 29   -   Focke-Wulf FW 190A/Bf 109   -   Oldenburg
8./NJG11 had moved to Oldenburg before 29.3.45.
 ?+I   ?+I   ?+I   ?+I 
1945, April 8   -   Focke-Wulf FW 190A/Bf 109   -   Hamburg-Fuhlsbuettel
 ?+I   ?+I   ?+I   ?+I 
1945, May 2   -   Focke-Wulf FW 190A/Bf 109   -   Leck
 ?+I   ?+I   ?+I   ?+I 
1945, May 8   -   Capitulated

 

 

 

 

10. Staffel (?)
1944, October   -   Formed as Sonderkommando Stamp in Burg/Magdeburg
In command was Maj. Gerhard Stamp with Fw. Karl-Heinz Becher being one of the first to arrive (previously with II./NJG 10) at this point the units using single seat aircraft and were coordinated with ground based radar and searchlights.
1944, November 11   -   Renamed Sonderkommando Welter
In September, Welter was to claim seven MOSQUITOs shot down, including one by ramming! It is thought that during his service with 1./NJG 10 and 10./JG 300, Welter recorded 12 victories in only 18 missions. Welter was awarded the Ritterkreuz on 18 October for 34 victories.
On 2 November 1944, Welter was transferred to II./NJG 11.
Here he was given command of a unit, set up on 11 November 1944, dedicated to the interception of RAF MOSQUITOs by night.
1945, January 28   -   redesignated 10./NJG 11
RAF MOSQUITOs proved too fast for the 109's, and so a new Staffel was formed in January, 1945 - equipped with single seat Me 262A jet fighters.
Later this unit also flew a few double seater Me 262B, some with nightfighting equipment.
According to a psotwar interview with Lt. Czypionka, the unit had only two (Red 10 & Red 12) Doubleseaters with nightfirghter equipment.
But actualy, the doubleseaters were only used for training purposes and due to lack of radar operators were only flown by a pilot.
However, there seem to have been delivered more than two Me 262B nightfighters to this Staffel, at least Red 8 still exists today.
Only unit with Messerschmitt Me 262B-1a/U1 SCHWALBE:
Under 1. Jagddivision in central Germany:
1945, January 28   -   Burg / Magdeburg
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Staffelkapitän
Oberleutnant Kurt Welter
(56 victories)
Welter claimed 25 Mosquitos and two four-engined bombers shot down by night and two further MOSQUITOs by day flying the Me 262. Whilst Welter had tested a prototype Me 262 fitted with Neptun radar, the majority of Welter’s 20 plus night victories were achieved in standard radarless aircraft. Kurt Welter was credited with 63 victories in 93 missions. He recorded 56 victories at night, including 33 Mosquitos.		  2   3 
 4   5 
Me 262A-1  6 
Lt. Jörg Czypionka
March 27, 1945
Lt. Czypionka has two victories in 'Red 6' - at least one was a Intruder-Mossie.
He was decorated with the Iron Cross.
Lt. Czypionka joined 10./NJG 11 in Jüterbog, flying 109's, which were specially equipped for high speed and high altitude use.
(probably 10. JG300 - which later grew to
II. Gruppe NJG 11)
Extract of the painting
'Two Minutes To Midnight' by Robert Bailey
Under 2. Jagddivision in northern Germany:
Only unit with Messerschmitt Me 262B-1a/U-1 SCHWALBE
It was not until March 1945 when they would receive six new two-seater Me 262B-1a/U1's each equipped with radar.
1945, April 12   -   Lübeck(-Blankensee?)
1945, April 21   -   Reinfeld (actually on the Autobahn nearby)
1945, May 7   -   Schleswig(-Land) (Schleswig-Jagel today)
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 4   5   6 
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Me 262B-1a/U1  8  (W.Nr.110305)
Oberleutnant Karl Weller (?)
Surrendered at Schleswig
Fate: On 18 May 1945 Red 8 was ferried to Gilze-Rijen and then to RAF Farnborough in the UK for evaluation. It was subsequently used for radar and
tactical trials starting from July the same year.
It carried the RAF serial VH519.
After completed trials, Red 8 was shipped to South Africa on 23 February 1947, arriving at Cape Town on 17 March. Amazingly, it survived in storage until the late-1960s when it was taken over by the local museum.
Note: The last three digits of the Werknummer
are repeated in white on the nose
Me 262B-1a/U1  9  (W.Nr.110306)
Lined up after surrender
Feldwebel Karl-Heinz Becher
Schleswig-Jagel, May 1945
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Note: The last three digits of the Werknummer
are repeated in white on the nose
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Me 262B-1a/U1  10  (W.Nr.110635)
Oberleutnant Kurt Welter
(56 victories)
flown by Leutnant Herbert Altner
Burg, April 1945
(Fate: to RAF, scrapped later the same year)
Me 262B-1a/U1  11  (W.Nr.110494)
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Me 262B-1a/U1  12  (W.Nr.111980)
flown by Leutnant Herbert Altner
Reinfeld, 1945
flown by Leutnant Kurt Lamm
Schleswig-Jagel, May 1945
(Fate: to RAF, destroyed in a gale in 1947)
1945, May 8   -   Capitulated

 

 

 

 

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