Swinoujscie Fortress Division (Wehrmacht)
The Swinemünde Fortress Division (also the Swinemünde Naval Fortress ) was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht during World War II .
Division history
Swinoujscie Fortress Division
The division was set up at the beginning of January 1945 on the orders of the Pomeranian sea commander to defend the port city of Swinoujscie, including the fortress . The establishment was carried out by the naval units stationed in the town's naval port , such as B. the naval anti-aircraft gun training III. to VIII. The division was subordinate to the 3rd Panzer Army and surrendered to the Red Army in April 1945 .
Swinoujscie defense area
In addition to the fortress division, a defense area was set up in March 1945. There are confusions between these two units, especially with regard to the commanders. The defense area of Swinoujscie was responsible for the defense of the islands of Usedom and Wollin, delimited from the mainland by the estuary of the Oder in the Baltic Sea. and assigned to the 3rd Panzer Army. The command post was Miedzyzdroje . The Commander of the Swinoujscie Defense Area was Lieutenant General John Ansat .
In May 1945 the withdrawal from the defense area took place.
structure
- Fortress Alarm Regiment 1 (made up of air force personnel from the Wollin -Dievenow air base and the air intelligence school)
- Fortress Alarm Regiment 2 (made up of staff from the Miedzyzdroje Marine Flak School and the destroyer and torpedo boat master department, Osternothafen)
- Fortress Alarm Regiment 3 (made up of staff from different naval flak schools)
- Fortress Alarm Regiment 4 (from staff of the Marine Flak School IV.)
- Fortress Alarm Regiment 5 (from the staff of the Marine Flak School V.)
- Coastal Artillery Teaching Department
Commanders
- Colonel , later Major General Arthur Kopp (1895–1979): from the formation to March 1945
- Sea captain Johannes Rieve : March 1945
- Major General Horst von Necker : April 1945 until dissolution
literature
- Samuel W. Mitcham (2007). German Order of Battle. Volume Two: 291st - 999th Infantry Divisions, Named Infantry Divisions, and Special Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books. Pp. 232 + 233, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .
- Heinz Schön : Pomerania on the run 1945: rescue across the Baltic Sea from the Pomeranian ports. Zeitgut-Verlag, 2013, pp. 248 to 251
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kurt Burk: Handbook for the history of the fortresses of the historic German East . Biblio, 1995, ISBN 978-3-7648-2454-9 , pp. 54 ( google.de [accessed on January 4, 2019]).
- ↑ Erich Murawski: The conquest of Pomerania by the Red Army . H. Boldt, 1969, p. 295 ( google.de [accessed on January 4, 2019]).
- ↑ Richard Lakowski: Seelow 1945: The decisive battle on the Oder . ES Mittler & Sohn, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8132-1003-3 ( google.de [accessed on January 4, 2019]).
- ↑ Wolfgang Müller, Reinhard Kramer: Sunk and Lost: People and Ship Fates, Baltic Sea 1945 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994, p. 83 ( google.de [accessed on January 4, 2019]).
