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The 7th Security Division was a major unit of the German Navy during World War II .

history

The division was set up in March 1943 for security tasks in the area of Sicily / Italian west coast. The headquarters were in the following Italian locations: Trapani , from May 1944 in Livorno and from September 1944 in Genoa- Nervi. The subordination took place under the German Naval Command Italy , later under the Naval High Command South .

Tactically, the 10th torpedo boat flotilla was subordinate to the division from January 1945 .

Commanders

• Captain Heinrich Bramesfeld (March 1943 to April 1943), former commander of the 1st and 2nd Security Divisions
• Frigate captain Karl Bergelt (May 1943 to May 1943), later commander of the 3rd Security Division
• Frigate Captain Dr. Karl Diederichs (June 1943 to January 1944)
• Captain Hans Rehm (February 1944 until the end of the war)

structure

• 6th clearing boat flotilla
• 11th clearing boat flotilla
• 22. Submarine Hunting Flotilla
• 3rd escort flotilla, disbanded in mid-1944
  • Mining ship group West Italy, merged from February 1944 and from June 1944 to form the 13th security flotilla
    • Juminda , from September 1943 until the sinking in October 1943
    • Kehrwieder , from October 1943
    • Oldenburg , from November 1943
    • Lower Saxony , from December 1943 to the sinking in February 1944
    • La Nymphe , from May 1944 to the sinking in April 1945 with the 13th security flotilla
• 4th escort flotilla, disbanded at the end of 1943
• 1. Transport flotilla
• 2nd landing flotilla, from January 1944, but already disbanded in February 1944
• 4th landing flotilla, from January 1944
• 70th minesweeping flotilla, from October 1944 to 13th security flotilla

Well-known members of the division

• Kapitänleutnant Erich Wasmund : from June 1944 to September 1944 first admiral staff officer

Individual evidence

1. ^ War diary of the Naval War Command 1939–1945 . Ed .: Werner Rahn, Gerhard Schreiber, Hans-Josef Meierhöfer. Part A, Volume 54. Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin, Bonn, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0654-8 , p. 465.