"Regiment General Göring" Tuchrock

[Bob Lyons]

I Have just scored this rather nice "Regiment General Göring" Tuchrock courtesy of the latest Grenadier Auctions in the US.

In case anyone has an interest in the Cuff Titles, they were instituted on the 23rd of March, 1936 (Luftwaffe Verordnungsblatt Nr. 12, Order Nr 348)

but by July 1942, Regiment General Göring had expanded into a Brigade, and changed its name from “General Göring” to “Hermann Göring” .

On 15th October 1942, the Brigade was further expanded, this time to Divisional strength.

On 22 May 1942 Luftwaffen-Verordnungsblatt 42/1381 provided for the replacement of the “General Göring” cuffband with a new version bearing the inscription “Hermann Göring ”.

A cut off date for the removal of the old pattern by the new version was set for late August 1942.

Photos are from the Auction website via Bruce Hermann....

Bob

[Bob Lyons]

And this Robert Lubstein visor cap is also piped for the "Regiment General Göring", and will go rather nicely with the tunic, especially with the Stabsbatterie unit stamps...

Bob

[Bob Lyons]

The Luftwaffe Regiment General Göring was formed on 24 September 1935 when the Polizei Regiment General Göring was transferred from the police to the Luftwaffe.
Parts of this unit (I. Jäger-Bataillon/RGG and 15. Pionier-Kompanie/RGG) were transferred to Döberitz in January 1936 for parachute training. These troops were to be the cadre of the future German paratroopers. They were separated from the regiment in March 1938 and redesignated I. / Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 1.

The Regiment General Göring was one of the units that entered Austria in March 1938 and later Sudetenland in October 1938 and Prague in March 1939.

Only a small part of the regiment fought in Poland while most of it remained in Berlin as anti-aircraft troops and guarding Göring's headquarters. After the fall of Poland parts of it was sent to the western front using the false designations Flak-Regiment 101 and Flak-Regiment 103.

Parts of it (a company of the Wach-Bataillon, a Kradschützen-Kompanie and some Flak-troops) took part in the invasion of Denmark and later in Norway.
The other parts of the regiment was stationed on the Dutch frontier before joining the German invasion of Holland. It fought in Holland and Belgium and was later stationed on the Channel coast and Paris before returning to Berlin late 1940.

It was sent to Romania during the Balkan campaign to be used as anti-aircraft troops at the Romanian oilfields. It later took part in the invasion of the Soviet Union fighting at Radziechow, Kiev and Brjansk.
Most of the regiment returned to Germany for refitting at the end of 1941 with the exception of a Schützen-Bataillon which remained until in April 1942.

It was upgraded to a brigade in July 1942 redesignated Brigade Hermann Göring.

[Aldo]

Wow, tremendous score! I would love to see a photo when you display it alongside all your other Luftwaffe uniforms.

[Bob Lyons]

Their Order of Battle (Orbat) up to 1941:

Order of battle (Oct 1937)
Regimentstab RGG
- Nachrichtenzug
- Musikkorps
I. (schwere) Flak-Abteilung/RGG
- Stab
- Stabsbatterie
- 1. Batterie (8.8 cm)
- 2. Batterie (8.8 cm)
- 3. Batterie (8.8 cm)
- 4. Batterie (3.7 cm)
II. (leichte) Flak-Abteilung/RGG
- Stab
- 5. Batterie (2.0 cm)
- 6. Batterie (2.0 cm)
- 7. Batterie (2.0 cm)
III. Wach-Bataillon/RGG
- Stab
- Nachrichtenzug
- Reiterzug
- 8. Kradschützen-Kompanie
-- Pz.Späh-Zug
- 9. Wach-Kompanie
- 10. Wach-Kompanie
IV. Fallschirmschützen-Bataillon/RGG
- Stab
- Nachrichtenzug
- 11. Fallschirmschützen-Kompanie
- 12. Fallschirmschützen-Kompanie
- 13. Fallschirmschützen-Kompanie
- 14. Fallschirmschützen-MG-Kompanie
- 15. Fallschirm-Pionier-Kompanie

Order of battle (Nov 1938)
Regimentstab RGG
- Musikkorps
- Stabsbatterie
I. (schwere) Flak-Abteilung/RGG
II. (leichte) Flak-Abteilung/RGG
III. Scheinwerfer-Abteilung/RGG
IV. (leichte) Flak-Abteilung/RGG
Wach-Bataillon/RGG
- Reiterzug
- 9. Wach-Kompanie
- 10. Wach-Kompanie
- 11. Wach-Kompanie
Luftlande-Bataillon/RGG (disbanded Aug 1939)

Order of battle (Aug 1939)
Regimentstab RGG
- Musikkorps
- Stabsbatterie
I. (schwere) Flak-Abteilung/RGG
II. (leichte) Flak-Abteilung/RGG
III. Scheinwerfer-Abteilung/RGG
IV. (leichte) Flak-Abteilung/RGG
Wach-Bataillon/RGG
- Reiterschwadron/RGG
- 9. Wach-Kompanie
- 10. Wach-Kompanie
- 11. Wach-Kompanie
Reserve-Schwinwerfer-Abteilung/RGG
Ersatz-Abteilung/RGG
1. (schwere) Eisenbahn-Flak-Batterie
1. (leichte) Flak-Batterie

Order of battle (15 Jun 1941)
Regimentsstab General Göring (Oberst Conrath)
- Nachrichtenzug (Oberleutnant Schirmer)
- Werkstattzug/RGG (Amtmann Gmelch)
- Transport Group (Hauptmann Kumacsek)
I. Flak-Abteilung/RGG (Major Hullmann)
- 1. Batterie (4 x 8.8cm) (Oberleutnant Graf)
- 2. Batterie (4 x 8.8cm) (Hauptmann Schulz)
- 3. Batterie (4 x 8.8cm) (Hauptmann Schröder)
- 5. Batterie (12 x 2cm) (Hauptmann Neubauer)
IV. Flak-Abteilung/RGG (Hauptmann Geicke)
- 6. Batterie (9 x 3.7cm) (Oberleutnant Behrends)
- 15. Batterie (6 x 2cm; 6 x 3.7cm) (Hauptmann Beinhofer)
- 16. Batterie (mot S Ketten) (12 x 2cm) (Oberleutnant Roßmann)
Schützen-Bataillon/RGG (Hauptmann Funck)
- 8. Batterie (mot S Rader) (12 x 2cm) (Hauptmann Seewald)
- 1. Schützen-Kompanie (Oberleutnant Krohn)
- 3. Schützen-Kompanie (Hauptmann Brandenburg)
- Kradschützen-Kompanie (Hauptmann Preuß)
II. Flak-Abteilung/Flak-Regiment 43 (Major Karlhuber)
- 6. Batterie (4 x 8.8cm) (Oberleutnant Rengermann)
- 7. Batterie (4 x 8.8cm) (Oberleutnant Wittkowsky)
- 8. Batterie (4 x 8.8cm) (Oberleutnant Hagel)
- 9. Batterie (12 x 2cm) (Oberleutnant Belau)
- 10. Batterie (12 x 2cm) (Hauptmann Schlechtweg)

[TWS]

I already told you privately, but allow me to post it here: Fantastic tunic!!

Congratulations on adding this superb example to your world class collection.

[Bob Lyons]

Thanks Todd, appreciate your very kind comments mate, but just trying to keep up with you...

Al, re the tunic once I get it set up, it may take a while, as the postal service at the moment is abysmal, this is from the USPS webiste

Bob

Update September 3
USPS has suspended international mail acceptance to Australia as Australia Post announced a temporary pause with its inbound shipment processing.
As a result, we have temporarily disabled USPS services to Australia.
• Any USPS shipments dropped off today and destined to Australia will be handed off to USPS as normal.
• These shipments will not be processed until the suspension has been lifted.
• There is no current timeline for when normal operations will resume.
We have confirmed with Asendia that they are still processing shipments with some delays and as such we have enabled service to Australia with our Asendia Priority Tracked postage.
• Asendia shipments will be processed as normal
• Expect delays with processing, tracking and delivery.
We continue to work closely with our partners to keep you updated on this service disruption and appreciate your patience and understanding.

[Rossi]

Good stuff Bob! Amazing! Thanks for showing. I have a Goring Unit Flak Album in my collection; You can see the cufftitles in wear in this photo. Here is link to the album pics. More Photos On Website: Flak Regiment Album

[Aldo]

Bob, sorry to hear about the post situation. The suspense would kill me. Good luck.

[Anderson]

Great tunic Bob. I hope it's insured, I had a sword mailed from the US earlier this year to NZ that never arrived, fortunately got insurance refund. I've given up buying overseas for the moment as the number of aircraft flying is still low. Hope yours turns up OK.