11. Backup Division

The 11th Security Division was a major unit of the German Navy during World War II .

history

The division was set up in February / March 1944 for security tasks in the Adriatic and as a supplement to the security training division from the 11th security flotilla set up in January 1944 . The division was subordinate to the commanding Admiral Adria, after the dissolution of the office of the commanding Admiral Adria from December 1944 to the German Naval Command Italy and later to the Naval High Command South . The Staff Headquarters was in Italian Trieste .

Commanders

Frigate captain / sea captain Walter Berger (February 1944 to February 1945), later acting commander of the naval forces of the North Sea of the Federal Navy
Frigate captain Friedrich-Karl Birnbaum (February 1945), former chief of the 2nd and 1st escort flotilla, later chief of the 9th torpedo boat flotilla
Frigate Captain Wilhelm Ambrosius (March 1945 to April 1945), including former submarine commander

structure

1st escort flotilla, integrated into the 9th torpedo boat flotilla from March 1945
2. Escort flotilla (set up again) with ao TA 48 and Audace
2nd submarine hunting flotilla (until the end of 1944, then integrated into the 2nd escort flotilla)
6th clearing boat flotilla
10th landing flotilla, from December 1944
6th transport flotilla (established in April 1944, later subordinated to the division)
9th torpedo boat flotilla (set up in February 1945, tactically subordinate to the division)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Reinhart Ostertag: German minesweepers: 80 years of anti-sea mine defense . Koehler, 1986, ISBN 978-3-7822-0394-4 , pp. 121 ( google.de [accessed on July 23, 2020]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Ship and Time . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994, p. 21 ( google.de [accessed on July 23, 2020]).
↑ Germany Naval War Command, Werner Rahn, Gerhard Schreiber, Hansjoseph Maierhöfer: War Diary of the Naval War Command, 1939-1945 . ES Mittler, 1995, ISBN 978-3-8132-0654-8 , pp. 49 ( google.de [accessed on July 23, 2020]).
^ ^A ^b Kurt W. Böhme: The German prisoners of war in Yugoslavia: With an introduction by the publisher . E. and W. Gieseking, 1964, p. 44 ( google.de [accessed on July 23, 2020]).

[:0-1] Reinhart Ostertag: German minesweepers: 80 years of anti-sea mine defense . Koehler, 1986, ISBN 978-3-7822-0394-4 , pp. 121 ( google.de [accessed on July 23, 2020]).

[:2-2] Ship and Time . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994, p. 21 ( google.de [accessed on July 23, 2020]).

[3] Germany Naval War Command, Werner Rahn, Gerhard Schreiber, Hansjoseph Maierhöfer: War Diary of the Naval War Command, 1939-1945 . ES Mittler, 1995, ISBN 978-3-8132-0654-8 , pp. 49 ( google.de [accessed on July 23, 2020]).

[:1-4] A ^b Kurt W. Böhme: The German prisoners of war in Yugoslavia: With an introduction by the publisher . E. and W. Gieseking, 1964, p. 44 ( google.de [accessed on July 23, 2020]).