Commander of the Drontheim Naval Defense

The Commandant of the Sea Defense Drontheim , or Seekommandant Drontheim for short , was a regional coastal commander in the German Navy during World War II .

history

After the German occupation of Norway in April 1940, the Navy established the office of the port commander Drontheim , whose headquarters were in the city of Trondheim . She was subordinate to the admiral of the Norwegian north coast . In June 1940 the Naval Commandant Drontheim was formed from the office.

The command area of the sea commander initially extended from Rørvig in the north to Kristiansund in the south. The neighboring sea command offices were Sandnessjøen in the north and Molde in the south.

Subordinate departments and associations

Submarine bunker Dora in Trondheim

The following units and offices were subordinate to the sea commander:

Port Captain Drontheim
Port captain Rörvik
Drontheim Harbor Protection Flotilla, renamed the 64th Outpost Flotilla in May 1944 and subordinated to the 4th Coastal Protection Association.

Fort Hysnes observation post

Naval artillery department 506 (Drontheim, Fort Brettingen), set up in May 1940 as the Naval Artillery Department Drontheim , from June 1940 Naval Artillery Department 306 , final designation from July 1940
Naval Artillery Division 507 (Husöen, Fort Hysnes) from August 1940

32nd Marine Flak Regiment (Drontheim) from October 1944

Naval Flak Division 701, from June 1940
Naval Flak Division 702, from June 1940
Marine Flak Division 715, from January 1945
1st Marine Fog Department, set up in Gotenhafen in 1942 , relocated to Drontheim in January 1944

Further naval offices in the command area of the sea commander Drontheim

In the area of the sea commander Drontheim, a number of naval offices were located that were not under his troop service, including:

Kriegsmarinewerft Drontheim (→ Section Kriegsmarinewerft Drontheim ) (at the Admiral of the Norwegian north coast)
Torpedo Arsenal Norway (at the commanding admiral Norway )
Main sea transport center Drontheim (at the head of sea transport Norway)
Drontheim Navy Hospital
Branch of the Navy Service in Oslo (at the commanding admiral Norway)

Drontheim Navy Shipyard

After the occupation of Bergen, the Navy established the Drontheim Navy Shipyard in August 1940 . She was on duty to the admiral of the Norwegian west coast , technically subordinate to the head yard staff Norway. In 1943 the shipyard was again converted into a Drontheim naval arsenal , with part of the tasks being transferred to the Germania shipyard in Kiel .

The following officers were employed as chief shipyard director and from September 1943 as arsenal commander:

Vice Admiral Eduard Eichel , August 1940 - April 1943
Sea captain Waldemar von Fischer (later sea commander South Jutland ), April 1943 - February 1944 (arsenal commander from September 1943)
Rear Admiral (Ing.) Wilhelm Johannsen , February - November 1944
Captain Heinrich Vöge, November - December 1944
Rear Admiral (Ing.) Wilhelm Johannsen, December 1944 - February 1945
Captain of the Sea (Ing.) Karl Ludwig Moritz, March 1943 until the office was closed

Naval commanders

The following officers had the post of sea commander Drontheim:

Sea captain August Thiele , April 1940
Sea captain Hans Rose , July 1940 - May 1943
Sea captain Fritz Antek Berger , June 1943 until the office was closed

Famous pepole

Gerhardt Böhmig , 1940 staff officer , later sea captain, senior government councilor and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit

literature

Walter Lohmann , Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume II, main chapter XII, chapter 4

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume II, main chapter XII, chapter 4, p. 6 f.
↑ Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in the Second World War 1939–1945: Edited on the basis of documents from the Federal Archives Military Archive . Biblio Verlag, 1980, ISBN 978-3-7648-1111-2 , p. 58 ( google.de [accessed on March 28, 2020]).
↑ ^a ^b Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume II, main chapter XII, chapter 4, p. 4 f.

Remarks

↑ Common German name at the time, Norwegian: Trondheim

[LH124-6-1] Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume II, main chapter XII, chapter 4, p. 6 f.

[3] Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in the Second World War 1939–1945: Edited on the basis of documents from the Federal Archives Military Archive . Biblio Verlag, 1980, ISBN 978-3-7648-1111-2 , p. 58 ( google.de [accessed on March 28, 2020]).

[LH124-4-4] Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume II, main chapter XII, chapter 4, p. 4 f.

[2] Common German name at the time, Norwegian: Trondheim