Commander of the North Jutland Naval Defense

Bangsbo Fort bunker near Frederikshavn with a 15 cm gun from the Danish ironclad Niels Juel

The Commander of the North Jutland Naval Defense , or Maritime Commander North Jutland , was a regional coastal commander in the German Navy during World War II , who was subordinate to the commanding Admiral Skagerrak . The office emerged in April 1944 from the previous section of North Jutland . Her area of ​​responsibility extended on the North Sea from Ringköbingfjord to Skagen and from there in Skagerrak south to Randers Fjord . The staff was in Frederikshavn .

North Jutland section

Danish fishing boats used by the Navy for a port protection flotilla, around 1940

Model of a 38 cm gun of the Second Battery in Hanstholm

The North Jutland section was the forerunner of the North Jutland Maritime Command. It was erected after the occupation of Denmark in April 1940. The following associations and departments were subordinate to the commander in the section:

• Port protection flotilla Skagen
• Harbor Protection Flotilla Frederikshavn
• Aalborg Harbor Protection Flotilla - Neck

The port protection flotillas were disbanded in October 1943 and some of the boats were handed over to the 17th outpost flotilla (Finnish bosom).

• Port Captain Hirtshals
• Port Captain Skagen
• Port Captain Frederikshavn
  • Frederikshavn Naval Equipment Station
• Port captain Aarhus (with the conversion to sea ​​command South Jutland )
• Marine Artillery Department 118 ( Hanstholm Fortress )
• Naval artillery department 509 (Frederikshavn and Løkken )
• Marine Flak Division 814 ( Hansted )
• Naval Artillery Headquarters Thisted

The naval artillery positions and the naval anti-aircraft gun assigned to them were part of the Atlantic Wall , with the Hansted / Hanstholm fortress with its long-range guns playing a special role in controlling the western access to the Skagerrak.

Commanders:

• Corvette Captain Edouard Becker: from the formation until July 1943
• Sea captain Karl Hinsch: from July 1943 until the office was closed, former commander of the South Jutland and Danish Islands section

Maritime Command North Jutland

German 10.5 cm anti-aircraft gun in Hanstholm

In April 1944, the North Jutland section was converted to the North Jutland Maritime Command. The following associations and departments were subordinate to him:

• Port Captain Lemvig
• Port Commandant Thyborøn (from the Danish west coast section )
• Harbor Commander Hirtshals
• Port Captain Skagen
• Port Captain Frederikshavn
  • Frederikshavn Naval Equipment Station
• Marine Artillery Regiment 40 (Frederikshavn) (from November 1944 with simultaneous subordination of :)
  • Naval Artillery Division 118 (Hansted)
  • Naval artillery department 509 (Løkken)
  • Marine Artillery Division 521 (neck)
• Naval Flak Division 716 ( Bangsbo Fort , Frederikshavn)
• Marine Flak Division 814 (Hansted)
• Naval Artillery Headquarters Thisted

Naval Commanders:

• Sea captain Karl Hinsch: from the formation until October 1944, former commander of the South Jutland and Danish Islands section and the North Jutland section
• Sea captain Heinrich Kaiser: from October 1944 until the end of the war, former commander of the destroyer Z 30

literature

• Walter Lohmann , Hans H. Hildebrand. The German Navy 1939–1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume II, main chapter XI, chapter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand. The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume II, main chapter XI, chapter 6, p. 1 f.
2. ^ Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand. The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume II, main chapter XI, chapter 3, p. 1 f.
3. ↑ The Atlantic Wall in Denmark, accessed on April 12, 2019