The staff's name received its number on 1 August 1939 and became "2nd Air Defense Command Leipzig" (Luftverteidigungs-Kommando Nr.

[1]: 138  On 3 February 1942, Feyerabend's third and final tenure as divisional commander ended, and he was replaced by Heino von Rantzau.

[2] By 15 June 1944, the division was part of "Coastal Defense Command East" under Army Detachment Narwa.

[7]: 95 After the Western Allies had beaten back the German counteroffensive, the 2nd Flak Division was in the Eifel mountain range and found itself, in February 1945, in the city of Bonn.

[1]: 138  The final divisional commander of the war had been a colonel-rank officer named Fritz Laicher, who had held this post since 15 November 1944.