'Freudenthal' was a German unrealised plan to deploy a combined parachute and air-landing force behind Czechoslovakia’s frontier defences at Bruntál (Freudenthal in German) in the event of war between the two countries (1938).

Only shortly after this, in October 1938, the decision was made to raise the full 7^th Fliegerdivision as a Luftwaffe formation under the command of Generalmajor Kurt Student as a well-trained paratroop formation intended for vertical envelopment operations against enemy defences. In organisational terms, a Fallschirmjägerdivision was schemed along the lines of an infantry division, with three parachute infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, and divisional support units. For a number of reasons, however, the 7^th Fliegerdivision was not brought up to full strength until 1941. Even so, the division’s units played significant roles during the German operations of April and May 1940 in the west despite entering the war with only the 1^st Fallschirmjägerregiment and 2^nd Fallschirmjägerregiment together with some support units.