Combat group Thiele

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The Kampfgruppe Thiele was a combat unit of the German Navy during World War II . It was named after its commanding officer , Vice Admiral August Thiele . He heads the Thiele combat group from March 23, 1944 until it was dissolved on April 27, 1945. It was formed from the II. Combat group.

Mission history

Vice-Admiral Thiele led the combat group in support of the German armed forces in Courland during Operation Doppelkopf from board the Prinz Eugen on August 19, 1944 . The heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen entered the Gulf of Riga and shelled Tuckum, held by the Soviets, from a distance of 25,000 meters with 265 shells from its main artillery ( 20.3 cm SK C / 34 ). In parallel, the destroyers Z 25 , Z 28 , Z 35 , Z 36 and the torpedo boats T 23 and T 28 attacked further land destinations.

The Soviet advance in the Baltic Sea continued. The last German convoy left Reval ( Company Aster ) on September 23 . On September 29, the Soviet troops landed on the island of Moon , on October 2 on the island of Dagö and on October 5 on the island of Ösel , where the German troops on the Sworbe peninsula were cut off.

The city of Memel in East Prussia was enclosed on the land side by the Red Army in the course of the formation of the Kurland Basin and threatened to be captured. To the cut off there German XXVIII. To support Army Corps (Gruppe Gollnick ), Kampfgruppe Thiele attacked land targets with their naval artillery from October 10, 1944. Here Prinz Eugen , Lützow , four destroyers and four torpedo boats fired a large number of grenades. The Prinz Eugen alone attacked 28 different land targets in the period from October 10th to 12th and from October 14th to 15th and fired 1196 shells with a caliber of 20.3 cm.

Used ships

and 4 torpedo boats (including T 23 and T 28 )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Koop, Gerhard; Schmolke, Klaus-Peter (1992). The heavy cruisers of the Admiral Hipper class. Bonn, Germany: Bernard & Graefe Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7637-5896-8 . P. 154
  2. ↑ Hildebrand, Hans H .; Röhr, Albert; Steinmetz, Hans-Otto (1990). The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present. (10 volumes) [The German Warships. Biographies - a Mirror of Naval History from 1815 to the Present. (10 Volumes)] (in German). 7. Ratingen, Germany: Mundus Verlag. ISBN 3-7822-0211-2 , p. 43
  3. ^ Koop, Gerhard; Schmolke, Klaus-Peter (1992). The heavy cruisers of the Admiral Hipper class. Bonn, Germany: Bernard & Graefe Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7637-5896-8 . P. 154.
  4. ↑ Hildebrand, Hans H .; Röhr, Albert; Steinmetz, Hans-Otto (1990). The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present. (10 volumes) [The German Warships. Biographies - a Mirror of Naval History from 1815 to the Present. (10 Volumes)] (in German). 7. Ratingen, Germany: Mundus Verlag. ISBN 3-7822-0211-2 . P. 44.