5th submarine flotilla

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The 5th U-Flottille (5th submarine flotilla ) was a military association of the German Navy . Initially founded as the Emsmann Front Flotilla, from 1941 this flotilla stationed in Kiel was purely a training flotilla.

history

The 5th U-Flotilla was set up on December 1, 1938 in Kiel as a front flotilla under the name Flottille Emsmann . This name went back to the submarine commander Hans Joachim Emsmann. The Emsmann flotilla merged with the newly founded 1st U-Flotilla at the beginning of January 1940 in the course of the reorganization of the German submarine weapon . In June 1941 the 5th U-Flotilla was re-established as a training flotilla . In the course of its existence, this association was subordinate to a total of 340 submarines - mainly as training boats. The 5th U-Flotilla was probably nominally the strongest of the German U-Flotilla.

Ships of the 5th submarine flotilla

In addition, the 5th U-Flotilla was also subordinate to some surface ships that were used as target, escort and accommodation ships:

Flotilla Chiefs

The 5th U-Flotilla was subordinate to the FdU East . In the course of its existence it was commanded by two flotilla chiefs:

From September 21, 1942 to November 8, 1942, Corvette Captain Hans Pauckstadt commanded the 5th U-Flotilla on behalf of Möhles. From September 16, 1943 to October 17, 1943, Corvette Captain Jost Metzler was the flotilla commander in charge.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Emsmann, b. 1892, commanded the submarines SM UB 5 , SM UB 10 , SM UB 40 and SM UB 116 during the First World War . He sank 27 ships on 10 ventures and died on October 28, 1918 when his boat tried to enter the bay of Scapa Flow , the main base of the Grand Fleet , and was sunk by a mine
  2. ↑ Bodo Herzog : German U-Boats 1906-1966. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1996, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 , page 232
  3. ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war. Volume two: U-boat construction in German shipyards . Mittler and Son (1997), p. 307

literature

  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 .