River clearing flotilla Netherlands
The River Flotilla Netherlands was a security unit of the German navy during the occupation of the Netherlands , whose base was in Dordrecht .
history
After the occupation of the Netherlands by the Wehrmacht , the Kriegsmarine formed the Dutch river clearing flotilla in December 1940 in order to be present on Dutch waters. The flotilla was subordinate to the leader of the Motorboat Associations Netherlands and was set up and commanded by Kapitänleutnant Stepwieser in Dordrecht . Their task was to clear the Dutch inland waters of mines and, where necessary, to build new mine barriers . In the further course of the war other tasks were added, such as escorting merchant ships and repelling Allied bombers . On February 8, 1945, the unit was disbanded by order of the naval command and the remaining boats were handed over to the Rhine Flotilla . The remnants of the crews were transferred to land units and were trapped in the fortress of Holland by the Allies in the further course of the war .
Commanders
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
|---|---|---|
| December 1940 - April 1941 | Lieutenant captain | Emmerich stepwieser |
| April 1941 - November 1941 | Corvette Captain | Theodor Dralle |
| November 1941 - September 1944 | Corvette Captain | Emmerich stepwieser |
| September 1944 - February 1945 | Corvette Captain | August Hermann Becker |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Seekriegsleitung: War Diary of the Naval Warfare 1939-1945 . Ed .: Werner Rahn, Gerhard Schreiber, Hans-Josef Meierhöfer. tape 66 . Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin, Bonn, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0666-1 , p. 70 .
- ↑ Erich Gröner : The ships of the German navy and their whereabouts 1939-1945 . JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1976.
- ↑ Hans H. Hildebrand: The organizational development of the navy including staffing from 1848 to 1945 . Ed .: Biblio-Verlag. tape 3 . Osnabrück 2000.