3. Mine sweeping squadron

3. minesweeping squadron - 3. MGschw -
Internal association badge (coat of arms)
Lineup	October 2, 1956
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	German Navy
Strength	800 soldiers
Insinuation	Operation flotilla 1
Location	Kiel , Schleswig-Holstein
guide
commander	Frigate Captain Terje Schmitt-Eliassen

The 3rd Minesweeping Squadron ( 3rd MSG ) is a boat squadron of the German Navy , which is stationed in Kiel and is subordinate to the Operational Flotilla 1 . It is the last active of the eight mine sweeping squadrons set up by the German Navy .

history

The 3rd MSG was commissioned on October 2nd, 1956 as the 3rd Rapid Minesweeper Squadron in Bremerhaven and moved to Wilhelmshaven in the same month. It was initially directly under the command of the naval forces and was placed under the command of the minesweepers on October 1, 1958 . Like the 1st MSG , it was assigned (assigned) to NATO on April 1, 1957.

By November 1956, the squadron received ten clearing boats from the former Navy , and in December the Ems tender was assigned to the squadron. On August 1, 1958, the squadron relocated to Kiel and on February 15, 1960 it was renamed the 3rd Mine Sweeping Squadron .

Fast minesweeper fish of the Sagittarius-Class 1972

As with the 1st MSG, the clearing boats were separated between 1959 and 1962 and replaced by SM boats of the Schütze class (class 340/341 - all boats of the 3rd MSG from class 341) by 1963 . As a replacement for the Ems , the Tender Isar (class 402) was put into service on January 25, 1964 , but was decommissioned on February 15, 1968. He was cocooned and assigned to the reserve flotilla as a command unit for minesweeping units.

Soon after their commissioning, several boats of the Schütze class showed such material deficiencies that eight of the thirty SM boats had to be taken out of service early. The 3rd MSG gave the remaining boats to the 1st MSG and the 5th MSG at the end of 1973 and received eight inland minesweepers (BM boats) of the Ariadne class  (class 393) from the reserve flotilla in 1973 and 1974 . On September 23, 1992 the 3rd MSG and all boats were taken out of service.

On April 1, 1996, the 3rd MSG was re-established in Olpenitz and now received five BM boats of the Frauenlob class (class 394), which had previously belonged to the 7th MSG . In addition, five multi-purpose landing craft (MZL boats) of the Barbe class (class 520) were placed under him from the holdings of the former 1st landing squadron.

Mine hunting boat Grömitz of class 332. The coat of arms of the 1st MSG on the bow (2002)

In 1999 the five boats of the Frauenlob class were returned and placed under the 5th MSG. Instead, the squadron received three mine hunters of the Frankenthal class (class 332) and five of the Kulmbach class (class 333), which have belonged to it together with the tender Rhine (class 404) since then. The tender Rhine belonged to the 3rd Schnellbootgeschwader in Flensburg until its dissolution . The squadron relocated to Kiel again in 2005 and has been subordinate to operational flotilla 1 since July 1, 2006 . With the dissolution of the 1st MSG in 2005, the mine hunting boats 332 Dillingen , Homburg , Fulda , Weilheim and the tender 404 Werra came to the 3rd MSG. For this, the mine hunting boat 332 Bad Rappenau was handed over to the 5th MSG. Until it was converted into a mine diving rescue boat, the mine hunting boat 332 Rottweil was managed from the former 1st MSG in the 3rd MSG. Mine hunting boats 332 Frankenthal and Weiden were sold to the United Arab Emirates in 2006.

In 2012 the two tenders Rhein and Werra were handed over to the 5th MSG and the 3rd MSG took over all mine-hunting boats of class 332.

On December 11, 2015, the remaining hollow rod steering boats of the Ensdorf class Pegnitz and Siegburg changed from the 5th MSG to the 3rd MSG.

At the end of 2015, all of the Navy's anti-mine units were subordinate to the 3rd MSG with its home base in Kiel. In the summer of 2016, the last two minehunters of the "Kulmbach" class M1095 Überherrn and M1099 Herten were decommissioned.

units

10 Frankenthal class  type 332 mine hunting and diving rescue boats

• M 1058 Fulda
• M 1059 Weilheim
• M 1061 Rottweil (diving rescue boat)
• M 1062 Sulzbach-Rosenberg
• M 1063 Bad Bevensen
• M 1064 Grömitz
• M 1065 Dillingen
• M 1067 Bad Rappenau (diving rescue boat)
• M 1068 dates
• M 1069 Homburg

2 Ensdorf class  type 352 hollow bar steering boats

• M 1090 Pegnitz
• M 1098 Siegburg

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the 3rd minesweeping squadron shows an East Prussian elk head that was taken over by the 3rd clearing boat flotilla of the Kriegsmarine , which was set up in Pillau in 1939 .

Commanders

No.	Surname	Beginning of the term of office	Term expires
1.	Corvette Captain Dirk Stricker	September 1956	March 1958
2.	Corvette Captain Hans-Joachim Prater	April 1958	November 1959
3.	Corvette Captain Karl Hinrich Peter	November 1959	December 1960
4th	Corvette Captain Günter Georg Connert	December 1960	October 1962
5.	Corvette Captain Andreas Wiese	October 1962	October 1963
6th	Frigate Captain Hermann Bruder	October 1963	March 1967
7th	Frigate Captain Walter Stricker	April 1967	March 1969
8th.	Frigate Captain Erhard Weiss	April 1969	April 1972
9.	Frigate Captain Horst Bredow	September 1972	March 1975
10.	Frigate Captain Kuno Lüth	April 1975	March 1977
11.	Frigate Captain Hermann Scheibner	March 1977	March 1980
12.	Frigate Captain Peter-Christian Mahrenholtz	April 1980	September 1982
13.	Frigate Captain Henning Gieseke	October 1982	September 1984
14th	Frigate Captain Horst-Dietmar Settler	October 1984	1986
15th	Frigate Captain Dietmar Schreck	1986	1989
16.	Frigate Captain Michael Schubert	1989	1992
17th	Frigate Captain HP Small	1996	1997
18th	Frigate Captain Peter Lochbaum	1998	2000
19th	Frigate Captain Ulrich Linke	2000	2002
20th	Frigate Captain Andreas Stricker	2002	Nov 10, 2005
21st	Frigate Captain Detlef Schäfer	Nov 10, 2005	28 Sep 2007
22nd	Frigate Captain Christof Reßing	28 Sep 2007	22 Sep 2009
23.	Frigate Captain Marcus Paetsch	22 Sep 2009	21 Mar 2012
24.	Frigate Captain Marc Gieseler	21 Mar 2012	08 Sep 2014
25th	Frigate Captain Axel Schrader	08 Sep 2014	Oct 10, 2016
26th	Frigate Captain Martin Schwarz	Oct 10, 2016	Jan. 24, 2019
27.	Frigate Captain Christian Meister	Jan. 24, 2019	July 30, 2020
28.	Frigate Captain Terje Schmitt-Eliassen	July 30, 2020	-

literature

• From Kiel to the Rhine. A successful run by the 3rd mine sweeping squadron . (PDF; 718 kB) In: Cast off! Magazine of the German Navy Federal e. V., year 1960, pp. 379–383 and p. 394
• Gerd-Dietrich Schneider: From the Canal to the Caucasus, the 3rd R-Flotilla, fire brigade on all fronts , Koehler, Herford 1982, ISBN 3-7822-0260-0 , therein on p. 278/279 a short outline of the 3rd. MSG
• Siegfried Breyer, Gerhard Koop: The ships, vehicles and aircraft of the German Navy from 1956 to the present day , Bernard and Graefe, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-7637-5155-6
• Hendrik Killi: Minesweeper of the German Navy. Mittler , Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-8132-0785-4 . 9783813207859
• Manfred Hasebrink: 3rd Fast Minesweeping Squadron of the German Navy: 1956 - 1963 (brochure series on German history, Volume 24), Sundwerbung, Martenshagen 2011, ISBN 978-3-93915-542-3

Web links

• Official site of the 3rd Mine Sweeping Squadron
• 50 years of the 3rd minesweeping squadron on https://www.presseportal.de/ (PDF file)
• The 3rd minesweeping squadron on http://www.deutsches-marinearchiv.de/ (as of February 2, 2010)
• Naval location strengthened Eleven modern mine hunters for Kiel from April 16, 2018 on http://www.kn-online.de/

References and comments

1. ↑ Removed from the list of ships in 1980, the Ems was given to Turkey in 1982 as an aid to equipment.
2. ↑ The technical term (in) cocooning used in the navy includes the preservation and (airtight) sealing of a device or even an entire ship. In shipping, a ship that has been taken out of service is called a trailer . Colloquially, this process is also called "mothballing".
3. ↑ "Those looking for mines, is next to God." . Retrieved December 18, 2015.