The Air War School Klotzsche (german: Luftkriegsschule Klotzsche) also known as ''Luftkriegsschule 1'' (LKS 1) was a former

Luftwaffe The ''Luftwaffe'' () was the aerial-warfare branch of the German ''Wehrmacht'' before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' of the Imperial Army and the '' Marine-Fliegerabtei ...

school in the

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

borrow

Klotzsche Klotzsche is a borough ('' Stadtbezirk'') of Dresden, Germany. It consists of four quarters (''Stadtteile''): *Klotzsche proper *Hellerau *Rähnitz *Wilschdorf The borough is located north of the Elbe Valley and the Dresden city centre, on the w ...

. The Air War School Klotzsche was built in 1935 according to the design by

Ernst Sagebiel Ernst Sagebiel (2 October 1892 in Braunschweig (Brunswick) – 5 March 1970 in Bavaria) was a German architect. Life Sagebiel was a sculptor's son, and after his ''Abitur'' in 1912, he began his studies in architecture at the Braunschweig Univ ...

together with the architect Walter and John Krüger. The school was used during the

Third Reich Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

until it was disbanded on 5 March 1945.

Commanding officers

* ''

Generalmajor is the Germanic variant of major general, used in a number of Central and Northern European countries. Austria Belgium Denmark is the second lowest general officer rank in the Royal Danish Army and Royal Danish Air Force. As a two-star ...

'' Oskar Kriegbaum, 1 April 1936 – 30 April 1942 * ''Generalmajor'' Josef Brunner, 1 May 1942 – 9 June 1944 * ''

Oberst ''Oberst'' () is a senior field officer rank in several German-speaking and Scandinavian countries, equivalent to colonel. It is currently used by both the ground and air forces of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, and Norway. The Swedish ...

'' Lutz, June 1944 – 1944 * ''Oberst'' Erich Kaufmann, 16 August 1944 – 16 April 1945

References

* Spur, Franz (2004). ''Dresdner Fliegerschmiede 1935–1945. Geschichte der Luftkriegsschule 1 Dresden in Klotzsche.'' Dresden, Germany: Arbeitskreis Sächsische Militärgeschichte. .

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