10. Backup Division
The 10th Security Division was a major unit of the German Navy during World War II .
history
The division was set up on February 3, 1944 by the Marinegruppenkommando Süd for security tasks in the area of the western Black Sea and all naval forces in this area were combined. The headquarters were in Constanta, Romania . The division commander was also chief of staff of the Romanian naval forces and escort chief of the Black Sea . The division was disbanded in June 1944 in the course of the German withdrawal from Romania and the 1st Black Sea Coast Guard Flotilla (Konstanza) and the 2nd Black Sea Coast Guard Flotilla ( Sulina ) were formed.
On December 2, 1944, the 10th security division for security tasks in the middle Baltic Sea (from Rixhöft to Flensburg ) was reorganized. For this purpose, the security flotillas subordinate to the BSO were combined in the division and assigned to the commanding admiral western Baltic Sea . The office of the BSO was dissolved and the BSO Kurt Weyher and his staff were transferred to the division management. In addition, the 1st Landing Division was used to set up the division. The headquarters were initially in Swinoujscie in Pomerania and from March 1945 in Copenhagen in Denmark . The area of operations of the division was joined by the area of operations of the 9th Security Division in the Gdansk Bay to Courland . The Wilhelm Gustloff was at anchor in the maritime area of responsibility of the 9th and 10th Security Divisions at the beginning of 1945, but then left the port of Gotenhafen at the end of January 1945 without the divisions' security ships .
The division was dissolved in May 1945, with parts of the division being transferred to the GMSA mine clearance divisions at the end of the war .
From March 1945 the headquarters of the division was on the Reiher .
Commanders
- Captain Kurt Weyher (January 1944 to June 1944)
- Rear Admiral Hans Bütow (December 1944 to January 1945)
- Frigate Captain Hugo Heydel (February 1945 to May 1945)
structure
10. Fuse Division (1)
- 1st submarine hunting flotilla
- 3rd submarine hunting flotilla (also disbanded with the dissolution of the division and assigned to the 2nd Black Sea coastal defense flotilla , after being re-established at the end of 1944 to the 9th Security Division)
- 23rd U-Boat Hunting Flotilla (also disbanded with the dissolution of the division and assigned to the 1st Black Sea coastal defense flotilla )
- 30th Escort Flotilla (also disbanded with the dissolution of the division and assigned to the 1st Black Sea Coast Guard Flotilla )
- 31st Escort Flotilla (also disbanded with the dissolution of the division and assigned to the 2nd Black Sea Coast Guard Flotilla )
- 3rd clearing boat flotilla
- 1st landing flotilla
- 3rd landing flotilla
- 5th landing flotilla
- 7th landing flotilla (also disbanded with the dissolution of the division)
- 3rd Artillery Carrier Flotilla (from February 1944)
- 4. Transport flotilla
- 5. Transport flotilla
- Mining ship Romania
10. Fuse Division (2)
- 1st security flotilla
- 2. Security flotilla
- 20. Outpost Flotilla
- 2. Minesweeping Flotilla
- 3rd clearing boat flotilla shortly before the end of the war with the escort ship M 535 (ex Gazelle , ex Hela , ex M 135 )
- 14th clearing boat flotilla
- 3rd barrier breaker flotilla
- 3rd Artillery Carrier Flotilla (until September 1944 and again from January 1945)
- 5th Artillery Carrier Flotilla (from February 1945 from the 8th Security Division )
- 8th Artillery Carrier Flotilla (from April 1944)
Individual evidence
- ^ War diary of the Naval War Command 1939–1945 . Ed .: Werner Rahn, Gerhard Schreiber, Hans-Josef Meierhöfer. Part A, Volume 54. Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin, Bonn, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0654-8 , p. 63.
- ↑ Jürg Meister: The naval war in the Eastern European waters 1941-1945 . JF Lehmann, 1958, p. 230 ( google.de [accessed on July 22, 2020]).
- ↑ a b c d e Herwig Danner: Kriegsfischkutter: KFK . ES Mittler, 2001, ISBN 978-3-8132-0729-3 , pp. 33 ( google.de [accessed on July 22, 2020]).
