Coast Commander Western Baltic Sea

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Coast Commander Western Baltic Sea was the name of a military service of the German Navy and its commander. He was subordinate to the chief of the naval station of the Baltic Sea and at the same time performed the task of the commander in the Kiel section . The staff was in Kiel .

The area of ​​command initially extended from the German-Danish border to the border between Mecklenburg and Pomerania . In 1943 it was extended to include the coast of western Pomerania as far as the Dievenow when the Pomeranian Coast Commander in Chief was dissolved.

history

The forerunner of the Coast Commander- in- Chief for the Western Baltic Sea was the command post of Kiel , established in October 1927 , which was renamed in 1936 as Commander of the Fortifications of Kiel and in 1937 as Commander of the Fortifications of the Western Baltic Sea . At the beginning of the war in 1939, the agency received its final name. In 1944 the office was closed and the tasks were transferred to the commanding admiral western Baltic Sea and to several subordinate naval command offices .

The staff of the commandant of the naval defense of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg was formed from the previous office .

Subordinate associations and agencies

  • Naval Fortress Pioneer Staff Western Baltic Sea (Kiel)
  • Blocking commander Kiel (blocking flotilla), from July 1941 blocking commander western Baltic Sea (blocking flotilla) ; at the same time port captain Kiel. From October 1942 coastal protection flotilla western Baltic Sea , in October 1943 again renamed 1st security flotilla and subordinated to the commander of the security of the Baltic Sea .
  • Commandant of the City of Kiel / Wehrmacht Commander Kiel (March / April 1945: Captain Hans Ibbeken )
  • Marine artillery with the following temporarily existing units
    • 1st Marine Artillery Department (Kiel)
    • 1. Replacement naval artillery department (Kiel, later Lütjenholm ),
    • Naval Artillery Division 121 ( Laboe )
  • Marine Flakgruppenkommando Kiel, from January 1940 1st Marine Flak Regiment, from May 1942 1st Marine Flakbrigade (brigade commander was the coast commander) with the following forces
  • 5th Marine Motor Vehicle Department (Kiel)
  • Naval Flight Information Department Western Baltic
  • Marine Motor Department Kiel, later 1st Marine Motor Department
  • Marine Motor Training Department (Heidkaten)
  • 2nd Naval Fog Department (Kiel, from March 1942)
  • Marine fire protection department (Kiel, from autumn 1942)
  • Naval DF Department Pomerania (Ahlbeck, from January 1944), later Naval DF Department II ( Lüchow )
  • Air raid school at the coastal commander in the western Baltic Sea (Kiel)
  • Wehrmacht Commander von Mürwik (also commander of the Mürwik Naval War School )
  • Wehrmacht commander of Eckernförde
  • Wehrmacht eldest location in Neustadt in Holstein
  • Commandant of the Warnemünde base , until December 1939 also commandant of the Mecklenburg coastline
    • Port Captain Warnemünde (until 1940)
    • Warnemünde harbor protection flotilla (until 1940)
Services that were subordinated to the Coast Commander Western Baltic Sea after the dissolution of the Pomeranian Coast Commander in September 1943
  • Navy troop camp Waren (Müritz)
  • 3. Replacement naval artillery department ( German Krone , until the end of 1943)
  • 3. Naval flight reporting department ( Swinoujscie )
  • 3rd Marine Motor Vehicle Department (Swinoujscie)
  • Commander in the Swinoujscie section (also Commander Naval Flak Division 233)
    • Naval Flak Division 233
    • Port Captain Swinoujscie
  • Commander in the Stralsund section (at the same time Wehrmacht commander Stralsund and commander 1st ship regiment)
  • Commander in the Rügen - Hiddensee section (at the same time senior military officer and island commander Rügen-Hiddensee)

Commander of the naval defense of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg

The maritime commander of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg was responsible for the original area of ​​the coastal commander in the western Baltic Sea, excluding the areas in Pomerania that were added in 1943. His staff initially stayed in Kiel before moving to Kappeln an der Schlei in April 1945 . In his area of ​​responsibility, he was essentially subordinate to the same agencies and associations as the Coast Commander before:

  • Naval Fortress Engineer Staff 6 (Kiel)
  • Port captain Kiel, at the same time blocking commander for the western Baltic Sea
  • Wehrmacht commander Kiel
    • Fortress Guard Department Kiel
  • 1. Marine Flakbrigade (brigade commander was the naval commander until April 1944) with the following forces
    • Marine Flaka Department 211 (Eckernförde)
    • Marine Flaka Department 221 (Dehnhöft)
    • Marine Flaka Department 241 (Kiel-Elmschenhagen)
    • Marine Flaka Department 243 (Rendsburg)
    • Marine Flaka Department 251 (Kiel-Schönwohld)
    • Marine Flaka Department 261 (Probsteierhagen)
    • Marine Flaka Department 271 (Kiel-Jägersberg)
    • Marine Flaka Department 281 (Kiel)
    • 5th Marine Motor Vehicle Department (Kiel)
  • 1. Naval flight reporting department
  • 1. Marine Motor Department (Kiel)
  • 1. Marine driver training department ( Tetlingen , Bernau , Flensburg)
  • 2nd Naval Fog Department (Kiel, from March 1942)
  • Naval Fortress Engineer Battalion 330 (Kiel)
  • 1st Marine Fire Protection Department (Kiel)
  • Navy troop camp Waren (Müritz)
  • Port captain Warnemünde
  • Port Commander Rostock (from April 1945)

Commanders were from November 1944 to April 1945 Rear Admiral Werner Stichling , in April 1945 the sea captain Hans Ibbeken and in May 1945 the sea captain Günther Wachsmuth.

Commander

The following officers held the position of Coast Commander for the Western Baltic Sea:

literature

  • Walter Lohmann , Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume I, main chapter VIII, chapter 3

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 3, p. 1 f.
  2. ↑ a b Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume I, main chapter VIII, chapter 8, p. 1 f.