2. Fuse Division

The 2nd Security Division was a major unit of the German Navy during World War II .

history

The division was set up in February 1941 at Boulogne for security tasks in the area of ​​the French Channel coast. The 2nd Security Division was subordinate to the commander of the Security West and was deployed in the English Channel between Dover and the mouth of the Scheldt . It was dissolved in September 1944.

Commanders

• Sea captain Carl Wilhelm Less : February 1941 to October 1941
• Captain Heinrich Bramesfeld from October 1941 to October 1942, from October 1941 to November 1941 also commander of the 1st Security Division
• Sea captain Max Freymadl: February 1943 to April 1944
• Frigate Captain Adalbert von Blanc : April 1944 to September 1944

structure

1942

• 3rd clearing boat flotilla
• 4th clearing boat flotilla with the escort ship Von der Groeben (ex M 107 )
• 36th clearing boat flotilla
• 38th clearing boat flotilla
• 15. Outpost Flotilla
• 18. Outpost Flotilla
• 4. Barrage Breaker Flotilla

1943

• 2nd clearing boat flotilla ( Dunkirk ) with the escort ship Brommy (ex M 50 )
• 4th clearing boat flotilla (Boulogne) with the escort ship Queen Luise (ex Fleet escort F 6 )
• 8th clearing boat flotilla ( Bruges ) with the escort ship Jungingen (ex M 534 , ex Frauenlob , ex M 134 )
• 10th clearing boat flotilla ( Ouistreham ) with the escort ship Von der Lippe (ex M 146 , ex Taku , ex M 546 )
• 15. Outpost Flotilla ( Le Havre )
• 18. Outpost Flotilla (Bruges)
• 36th Minesweeping Flotilla ( Ostend )
• 38th Minesweeping Flotilla (Le Havre)
• 2nd Artillery Carrier Flotilla (Boulogne), until early 1945, then to 5th Security Division

1944

In addition, from February 1944, the newly established 6th artillery carrier flotilla, which only existed until August 1944, was placed under the division.

Well-known members of the division

• Oberleutnant zur See Otto Nordt : From July to December 1942 on the division's staff
• Corvette Captain Karl Palmgren : 1st admiral staff officer from April 1944 to August 1944, in this position awarded the Knight's Cross with the Oak Leaves , then head of the 38th Minesweeping Flotilla division

See also

• Schematic war organization of the Wehrmacht on June 6, 1944

literature

• The BSW association at the end of June 1941. In: Friedrich Ruge : In the coastal apron: mine search, escort, submarine hunt, outpost service. Lehmann, 1974, p. 78 ff. ISBN 3-469-00512-5

Individual evidence

1. ^ Steven J. Zaloga: The Atlantic Wall (1): France . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-78200-707-4 ( google.de [accessed January 8, 2019]).
2. ↑ ^{a b} War Diary of the Naval War Command 1939–1945. Ed .: Werner Rahn, Gerhard Schreiber, Hans-Josef Meierhöfer. Part A, Volume 61 / I. Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin, Bonn, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0661-0 , p. 98.