Engineering office Glückauf
The engineering office Glückauf was a department of the Reich Ministry for Armaments and War Production , which, during the Second World War, as the design office of the main shipbuilding committee, created comprehensive designs and production plans for submarines of the German Navy . This affected both submarine types that were designed for submarine warfare , as well as micro-submarines that were used in the operations of the small combat units of the Kriegsmarine .
Tasks, projects and localization
The engineering office Glückauf was abbreviated as IBG. It was entrusted with the design and production planning of German submarines for the navy during the final phase of World War II, for example the submarine class XXI or the small type XXVII .
Towards the end of 1944, the design and production planning for the Walter type XXVI boat was completed. For this purpose, the IBG designers produced construction drawings in the partial sheet system, from which the sequence of production and assembly could be seen. This method was first used in German shipbuilding in the construction of the Type XXVI . Previously, the partial blade system was only used in inland steel construction.
The IBG was one of the central design offices of the Main Shipbuilding Committee (HAS) and had two branches in the Harz region . Between the summer of 1943 and March 1945, an average of 650 people were employed in the offices in Blankenburg and Halberstadt .
Individual evidence
- ^ Institute for Contemporary History : Offices, abbreviations, actions of the Nazi state : KG Saur, Munich 1997, page 300.
- ^ Eberhard Rössler : History of the German submarine construction. Volume 2: Development, construction and characteristics of the German submarines from 1943 until today. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1996, page 356.