5. Fuse Division
The 5th Security Division was a major unit of the German Navy during World War II .
history
The division was set up on March 12, 1942 for security tasks in the area of the German Bight . For this purpose, the mine sweepers and other security forces from the Cuxhaven location were brought together in the new division. The flotillas in the original command area of the BSN (German North Sea Coast) were thus combined into the 5th Security Division and subordinated to the BSN. The staff headquarters remained in Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony and was the Helgoland living ship in Cuxhaven .
The division ran a naval court martial.
From January 1945 after the dissolution of the commander in charge of securing the North Sea, the division was subordinated to the commanding Admiral German Bight .
At the end of the war, parts of the division were transferred to the GMSA mine clearing divisions .
Commanders
- Frigate Captain of the Reserve Max Klein (March 1942 to April 1942), later sole commander of the 8th Security Division
- Sea captain Arnold Bentlage (May 1942 to February 1943), former commander of the 3rd Security Division
- Rear Admiral Günther Horstmann (March 1943 to September 1944), former head of the Stettin navy and German sea transport chief in Italy
- Captain Kurt Thoma (October 1944 to May 1945)
Outline 1944
Under Günther Horstmann:
- 7th minesweeping flotilla (Cuxhaven)
- 21st Minesweeping Flotilla ( Wesermünde )
- 27th Minesweeping Flotilla (Cuxhaven)
- 13. Räumbootsflotille (Wesermünde) with the escort ship North Sea
- 1st barrier breaker flotilla (Cuxhaven)
- 8th barrier breaker flotilla
- 8th outpost flotilla (Wesermünde)
- 11th outpost flotilla (Wesermünde)
- 12th outpost flotilla (Wesermünde)
- 18. Outpost Flotilla
Under Kurt Thoma:
- 7th minesweeping flotilla (Cuxhaven)
- 27th Minesweeping Flotilla (Cuxhaven)
- 13th clearing boat flotilla with the escort ship North Sea
- 1st barrier breaker flotilla
- 8th barrier breaker flotilla
At the beginning of 1945 the 2nd Artillery Carrier Flotilla came from the 2nd Security Division to the division.
See also
- Commander in charge of securing the North Sea
- Schematic war organization of the Wehrmacht on June 6, 1944
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Historical communications . Ranke Society, Association for History in Public Life, 2002, p. 223 ( google.de [accessed July 19, 2020]).
- ↑ Heinz Boberach: Reich central authorities, regional authorities and scientific universities for the ten West German states and Berlin . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-095039-7 , p. 236 ( google.de [accessed July 19, 2020]).
- ^ Historical communications . Ranke Society, Association for History in Public Life, 2002, p. 249 ( google.de [accessed July 19, 2020]).
- ↑ Norbert Haase: Danger for male discipline: refusal and resistance in the mirror of the rulings of naval courts in Wilhelmshaven (1939-1945) . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, 1996, ISBN 978-3-7752-5844-9 , p. 90 ( google.de [accessed July 19, 2020]).
- ^ Reinhart Ostertag: German minesweepers: 80 years of anti-sea mine defense . Koehler, 1986, ISBN 978-3-7822-0394-4 , pp. 112 ( google.de [accessed July 19, 2020]).
- ^ Reinhart Ostertag: German minesweepers: 80 years of anti-sea mine defense . Koehler, 1986, ISBN 978-3-7822-0394-4 , pp. 125 ( google.de [accessed on July 19, 2020]).
