Nachtjagdgeschwader 3

Commanding officers

Kommodore

• Major Johann Schalk, 1 December 1941 – 1 August 1943
• Oberst Helmut Lent, 1 August 1943 – 7 October 1944
• Oberst Günther Radusch, 12 November 1944 – 8 May 1945

  Gruppenkommandeure

I. Gruppe

• Hauptmann Günther Radusch, 7 October 1940 – 2 October 1941
• Hauptmann Hans-Dietrich Knoetzsch, 3 October 1941 – 30 September 1942
• Major Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld, 1 October 1942 – 31 May 1943
• Hauptmann Erhard Peters, 1 June 1943 – 14 August 1943
• Hauptmann Walter Mylius, 15 August 1943 – 13 December 1943
• Hauptmann Paul Szameitat, 14 December 1943 – 2 January 1944
• Major Werner Husemann, 4 January 1944 – 8 May 1945

  II. Gruppe

• Hauptmann Günther Radusch, 3 October 1941 – 1 August 1943
• Major Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, 15 August 1943 – November 1943
• Hauptmann Paul Szameitat, December 1943 – 14 December 1943
• Major Klaus Havenstein, 15 December 1943 – September 1944
• Hauptmann Hüschens, September 1944 – February 1945

  III. Gruppe

• Oberstleutnant Heinz Nacke, 1 November 1941 – 21 April 1943
• Hauptmann Walter Mylius, 22 April 1943 – 14 August 1943
• Hauptmann Rudolf Sigmund, 15 August 1943 – 4 October 1943
• Major Walter Barthe, 15 October 1943 – 8 May 1945

  IV. Gruppe

• Major Erich Simon, 1 November 1942 – 7 October 1943
• Hauptmann Albert Schulz, 8 October 1943 – January 1944
• Hauptmann Franz Buschmann, January 1944 – July 1944
• Hauptmann Heinz Ferger, July 1944 – November 1944
• Major Berthold Ney, November 1944 – 4 March 1945
• Hauptmann Freidrich Tober, 5 March 1945 – 8 May 1945

  Surviving aircraft