9. Fuse Division

The 9th Security Division was a major unit of the German Navy during World War II .

history

The division was set up on June 17, 1944 for security tasks in the area of the central to eastern Baltic Sea (from the Pomeranian to the Estonian coasts). To the west of it was the area of operations of the 10th Security Division . The headquarters were initially in Windau , from February 1945 in Libau and from March 1945 in Gotenhafen in West Prussia . The Oxhöft control center was under the division.

Until June 1944, the division was under the command of the commanding admiral Ostland and then the commanding admiral eastern Baltic Sea . In terms of service, the subordination was under the BSO until November 1944 and then under the command of the security forces .

In August 1944 the division took part in a rescue mission in Narwabucht for the 6th torpedo boat flotilla, which was partially sunk in a German mine lock. The Wilhelm Gustloff was at anchor in the maritime area of responsibility of the 9th and 10th Security Divisions at the beginning of 1945 , but then left the port of Gotenhafen at the end of January 1945 without the divisions' security ships . At the end of March 1945, the division carried out an evacuation company from Oxhöft to the Hela peninsula called company Walpurgisnacht .

The division's lead ship was the former passenger steamer Rugard .

At the end of the war, parts of the division were transferred to the GMSA mine clearing divisions . The former division commander took over the 1st mine clearing division .

Commanders

Rear Admiral Kurt Böhmer (June 1944 to September 1944)
Frigate Captain Adalbert von Blanc (October 1944 to May 1945), also became the leader of the 1st mine clearing division

structure

1st minesweeping flotilla

3rd minesweeping flotilla from 5th Security Division

25. Minesweeping Flotilla

31. Minesweeping Flotilla

1st clearing boat flotilla until sinking at the end of June 1944 as escort ship M 538 (ex Zieten ), then as escort ship M 566 (ex Störtebeker , ex M 66 )

17th clearing boat flotilla

7th Artillery Carrier Flotilla , from August 1944

3. Security flotilla

6th security flotilla including KFK 500 (from February 1945 from the 2nd security division )

Reval Coast Guard Flotilla, from July 1944 14th Security Flotilla, including the Ammerland ship

3. Outpost Flotilla

9. Outpost Flotilla

1st submarine hunting flotilla

3. Submarine Hunting Flotilla

Well-known members of the division

Frigate Captain Karl Palmgren : at the end of the war with the division, at the beginning of May 1945 deputy commander and chief of the 3rd security flotilla

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Jürgen Rohwer, Gerhard Hümmelchen: Chronicle of the naval war 1939-1945 . G. Stalling, 1968, p. 520 ( google.de [accessed on July 20, 2020]).

[:0-1] A ^b ^c Jürgen Rohwer, Gerhard Hümmelchen: Chronicle of the naval war 1939-1945 . G. Stalling, 1968, p. 520 ( google.de [accessed on July 20, 2020]).