Coast Commander Pomerania
Coast Commander Pomerania was the name of a military service of the German Navy and its commander. He was responsible for the coastal defense in the Pomerania area during the first half of World War II . He was subordinate to the chief of the naval station of the Baltic Sea . The staff was in Swinoujscie .
history
The forerunner of the Pomeranian Coast Commander was the Commander of Swinoujscie , established in 1921 , which was renamed Commander of the Fortifications of the Pomeranian Coast in 1934. From then on until the name was changed, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Schröder was in command. At the beginning of the war in 1939 it received its final designation, and the commander also became the commander in the Swinoujscie section. In September 1943, the agency was dissolved and the command area was divided between the neighboring coast commanders. For this purpose, the subordinate associations and departments were mainly assigned to the Coast Commander Western Baltic Sea .
Commander
The following officers held the position of Coast Commander Pomerania:
- Captain of the Sea / Rear Admiral Thilo von Seebach , October 1937 - March 1939
- Sea captain August Thiele , March 1939 - October 1939
- Rear Admiral Otto Schenk , January - March 1940
- Rear Admiral Ernst Krafft , March - June 1940 (deputy)
- Rear Admiral Hasso von Bredow , June 1940 - March 1943
- Rear Admiral Erich Mahrholz , April - May 1941 (deputy)
- Rear Admiral Joachim Lietzmann , March - September 1943
Subordinate associations
The command area of the Pomeranian Coast Commander in chief stretched from Darß to the Polish border and was divided into four sections, of which the Commander led the Swinoujscie section in personal union. In addition, several other associations and agencies were directly subordinate to him.
Associations and agencies directly subordinate to them
The coastal commander led the Swinoujscie section and the following forces directly:
- Swinoujscie naval fortress construction staff
- Coastal Defense Flotilla Pomeranian Coast, from October 1942 also Sperrkommandant Swinoujscie (Sperrkommandant also flotilla chief)
- Port Captain Swinoujscie (drawn up in August 1939)
- III. Naval Artillery Department (Swinoujscie)
- 3rd replacement naval artillery department (Swinoujscie, established in August 1939, from October 1941 Deutsch Krone )
- Naval Artillery Department 123 (Swinoujscie, established in October 1939, disbanded in August 1941)
- Navy Flaka Department 233 (Swinoujscie, established in August 1939, dissolved in June 1940)
- 3. Pomeranian Coast Naval Air Service (Swinoujscie)
- 3rd Marine Motor Vehicle Department (Swinoujscie)
- Naval troop camp Waren (Müritz) from July 1941
Stralsund section
The commander in the section was at the same time Wehrmacht commander Stralsund and commander of the 1st regular ship regiment. No other troops were under his control. The first in command was sea captain Robin Schall-Emden until the end of 1939 .
Rügen-Hiddensee section
The commander in the section was also the island commander Rügen , based in Sassnitz . From October 1941 to mid-1943, Rear Admiral Georg Kleine was section commander .
- Navy Flaka Department 213 ( Rügen ) (August - December 1939 only)
Section Kolberg
The Kolberg section was dissolved in July 1941 and the commander was given the designation Naval Liaison Officer (MVO) East Pomerania. From the formation in August 1939 to April 1941, the future Rear Admiral Franz Claassen was the section commander .
- Navy Flaka Department 243 (Kolberg) (only August - September 1939)
literature
- Walter Lohmann , Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume I, main chapter VIII, chapter 4