Landesschützen-Zug der Luftwaffe

[Richard T Eger]

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Tintin
Landesschützen-Zug der Luftwaffe 37/IV,
Sat Jan 17 21:11:37 2026
67.70.173.2

Hi
Can someone help me with information for Landesschützen-Zug der Luftwaffe 37/IV? History, location etc
Thanks
Rick
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[Richard T Eger]

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Steve W.
Re: Landesschützen-Zug der Luftwaffe 37/IV,
Sat Jan 17 22:29:21 2026
64.12.96.171

You are dealing in items of real obscurity here. The Luftwaffe's Landesschützeneinheiten did not leave much of a trail behind in the surviving documentation.

Ldssch.Zug d.Lw. 37/IV was first assigned a Feldpostnummer (FpN) in summer 1940 (L 16787), which suggests that it was deployed in France, Belgium or Holland, although there is no proof of this. Its FpN was deleted in spring 1942, which strongly implies that it was either disbanded or assumed the FpN of some parent unit, possibly an airfield command. It was reconstituted or again became independent in September 1944 and a new FpN assigned on 26 Sep 44 (L 10098). On 26 Mar 45 it was re-designated Ldssch.Zug d.Lw. 36/VI. The original 36/VI had been destroyed on the central sector of the Eastern Front in July 1944.

That is all that is known. It is not mentioned in the Allied intelligence listings derived from ULTRA and captured documents nor does it appear in the postwar directories of missing personnel compiled by the Deutsches Roter Kreuz (German Red Cross). But then neither are 40% to 50% of these small Luftwaffe airfield and installation guard platoons mentioned in these sources. Around 1,600 Landesschützenzüge d.Lw. existed at one time or another during the war, but there is scant information for all but a handful of them.

Steve W.

[Richard T Eger]

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Tintin
Landesschützen-Zug der Luftwaffe 37/IV,
Sun Jan 18 14:31:27 2026
67.70.110.53

Thank you very much. I have registered letter dated March, 1942 from Posen to Wehrbezirkskommando, Wien