Coast Commander Eastern Baltic Sea

Coast Commander Eastern Baltic Sea (from September 1943 Coast Commander Middle Baltic Sea ) was the name of a military service of the German Navy and its commander in the Second World War that was set up in August 1938 .

history

He was subordinate to the chief of the naval station of the Baltic Sea and until January 1940 also performed the task of the fortress commander Pillau . The staff was in Pillau , later in Gotenhafen .

At the beginning of the war, the area of ​​command was the East Prussian coast . In 1939 it was extended to include the West Prussian coast and the coast of Danzig , and from then on it extended from the Lithuanian to the West Prussian- Pomeranian border. After the dissolution of the Pomeranian Coast Commander in Chief in September 1943, the stretch of coast as far as the Dievenow was added, and the department was renamed Coast Commander Middle Baltic Sea .

In November / December 1944 there was another reorganization, in the course of which the office was transferred to that of the commandant of the sea defense of East and West Prussia .

Subordinate associations and agencies

Naval port of Gotenhafen 1942

Agencies and units subordinate to the Coast Commander

• Naval flight reporting department Eastern Baltic Sea (Gotenhafen)
• Fortress / section Gotenhafen
  • Danzig Bay Harbor Protection Flotilla, August - November 1939
  • Sperrkommandant Gotenhafen - Sperrflottille, from October 1942 Coast Guard Flotilla Prussia Coast
  • City / Wehrmacht Commander Gotenhafen ( Emil Ruhfus April 1944 to February 1945)
  • Port captain Gotenhafen
  • several temporarily existing naval artillery and naval anti-aircraft departments
  • Naval Flak Regiment 9 (Gotenhafen), from September 1942
  • 1. Marine fog department (Gotenhafen), temporarily
• Fortress / section Pillau
  • Port Captain Pillau
  • several temporarily existing naval artillery and naval anti-aircraft departments
  • Naval Air Intelligence Unit Pillau
• Fortress / Memel section
  • Port protection flotilla Memel, temporarily
  • Port captain Memel, from 1942 also blocking commander
  • Blocking commander Memel, until 1942
  • several temporarily existing naval artillery and naval anti-aircraft departments

Commander

• Rear Admiral Friedrich-Wilhelm Fleischer , August 1939 - January 1940
• Sea captain Robin Schall-Emden , January - March 1940
• Sea captain Bernhard Liebetanz , March - May 1940
• Rear Admiral Robin Schall-Emden, May - June 1940
• Rear Admiral Ernst Krafft , June 1940 - August 1942
• Vice Admiral Friedrich Goetting , September 1942 - February 1943
• Rear Admiral Joachim Plath , March 1943 - December 1944

literature

• Walter Lohmann , Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume I, main chapter VIII, chapter 5

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume I, main chapter VIII, chapter 5, p. 1 f.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} The Office of the fortress commanders was established in October 1943 in Commander in the section renamed