Luftflotte 1

Units under Command

Strategic Reconnaissance

• Stab/FAGr 1
• 3./22
• 5./122
• NASt 3

  Maritime Reconnaissance

• 1./SAGr 127

  Transports

• 1./TGr 10

  Transports (special works)

• Junkers Ju 252A-1
• Junkers Ju 352A-0/A-1 Herkules
• Arado Ar 232B-0 Tausendfüßler for transport special commandos, weapons, vehicles or dropping by parachute secret agents in clandestine missions behind enemy lines.
• I./KG 200

  Bombers

• 14./KG 55

  3.Fliegerdivision (3°Air Division) Petseri

Tactical Reconnaissance

• Stab//NAGr 5
• 1./NAGr 5
• 1./NAGr 31

  Land Air Strike

• I/SG 3

  Night land strike

• Stab/NSGr 1
• 3./NSGr 1
• 1./NSGr 1
• 2./NSGr 1
• Stab/NSGr 3
• 1./NSGr 3
• 2./NSGr 3
• 1./NSGr 12
• 1./NSGr 12
• Stab/NSGr 11
• 1./NSGr 11
• 2./NSGr 11
• 2./NSG 12

  Jagdabschnittfuhrer Ostland (Fighter direction in Ostland) Riga-Spilve

Fighters

• Stab/JG 54
• I./JG 54
• 2./JG 54
• 3./JG 54

  Gefechtsverband Kuhlmey (Kuhlmey Combat Unit) Immola

Tactical Reconnaissance

• 1./NAGr 5

  Fighters

• II./JG 54

  Land Air Strike

• Stab/SG 3
• 1./SG 3
• 2./SG 3
• 3./SG 3

  Commanding officers

• Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring, 1 February 1939 – 11 January 1940
• Generaloberst Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, 12 January 1940 – 10 May 1940
• General Wilhelm Wimmer, 11 May 1940 – 19 August 1940
• Generaloberst Alfred Keller, 20 August 1940 – 12 June 1943
• Generaloberst Günther Korten, 12 June 1943 – 23 August 1943
• General Kurt Pflugbeil, 24 August 1943 – 16 April 1945

  Chief of staff

• Generalmajor Wilhelm Speidel, 1 February 1939 – 19 December 1939
• Generalleutnant Ulrich Kessler, 19 December 1939 – 25 April 1940
• Oberst Heinz-Hellmuth von Wühlisch, 1 May 1940 – 9 May 1940
• Generalmajor Dr. Robert Knauss, 9 May 1940 – 4 October 1940
• Generalmajor Otto Schöbel, 5 October 1940 – 16 January 1941
• Generalmajor Heinz-Hellmuth von Wühlisch, 16 January 1941 – 13 October 1941
• Generalmajor Herbert Rieckhoff, 13 October 1941 – 23 February 1943
• Generalmajor Hans Detlef Herhudt von Rohden, 23 February 1943 – 24 August 1943
• Generalmajor Klaus Uebe, 25 August 1943 – 24 December 1944
• Oberstleutnant Paul-Werner Hozzel, 25 December 1944 – 16 April 1945

  Subordinated units

• II, III/Kampfgeschwader 1 "Hindenburg"
• Kampfgeschwader 76
• Kampfgeschwader 77
• K.Fl.Gr. 806
• Jagdgeschwader 54
• 2 Ob.d.L.
• 5 122
• eleven squadrons of
• SAGr 125
• one transport squadron
• five liaison squadrons
• IV. Flakkorps
• *2. Flak-Division
• *6. Flak-Division

Abbreviations

• FAGr = Fernaufklärungsgruppe = Reconnaissance aircraft.
• * Gruppe = equivalent to a RAF Wing.
• JG = Jagdgeschwader = Fighters.
• * Geschwader = equivalent to a Royal Air Force Group.
• KG = Kampfgeschwader = Bombers.
• KG zbV = Kampfgeschwader zur besonderen Verwendung = Transport aircraft, later TG.
• NAGr = Nahaufklärungsgruppe = Observation aircraft.
• NASt = Nahaufklärungsstaffel = Observation aircraft.
• * Staffel = equivalent to a RAF Squadron.
• NSGr = Nachtschlachtgruppe = Night ground attack.
• SAGr = Seeaufklärungsgruppe = Maritime patrol aircraft
• SG = Schlachtgeschwader = Ground attack.
• TG = Transportgeschwader= Transport aircraft.