Commander of the Oslofjord Naval Defense
The sea commander Oslo , from April 1941 as the commander of the sea defense Oslofjord , 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 initially deployed a German port commander in Oslo . In May 1940 this agency was named Sea Commander Oslo and its headquarters were relocated from Oslo to Horten .
The sea commander Oslo was subordinate to the admiral of the Norwegian south coast . His area of command extended from the Swedish- Norwegian border at Fredrikstad to Langesund , west of Larvik , where he was adjacent to the Kristiansand-Süd sea command .
The subordination changed in August 1940 with the dissolution of the office of the Admiral of the Norwegian south coast directly under the commanding Admiral Norway , from February 1943 Commander in Chief Naval Command Norway .
After the end of the war, the office remained in existence until August 31, 1945 to support the repatriation of German troops from Norway. At least until February 1946, the court of the commandant of the Oslofjord naval defense remained installed.
Subordinate departments and associations
The following units and offices were subordinate to the sea commander:
- Port Captain Oslo
- Harbor master hoarding
- Port Captain Fredrikstad
- Port Captain Larvik
- Port Captain Brevik (from October 1940)
- Oslo Harbor Protection Association, from June 1940 Oslo Harbor Protection Flotilla , from August 1940 Oslofjord Harbor Protection Flotilla
- Naval artillery department 501 (hoarding)
- Naval Trunk Department Norway (Oslo), from 1943 Naval Replacement Department Oslo
- Naval Intelligence Department Oslo (from June 1944)
- Horten Marine Artillery Equipment Office (from January 1941, from 1943 Naval Artillery Arsenal )
- Navy artillery arsenal Oslo (later reduced to artillery weapons command)
- Naval Equipment Station Oslo
In the area of command of the sea commander Oslofjord was the sea transport point Oslofjord, which was subordinate to the sea transport chief Norway.
Naval commanders
The following officers held the posts of the Oslo Sea Commander and the Oslofjord Sea Defense Commander:
- Sea captain Friedrich Rieve , April - August 1940
- Captain of the Sea / Rear Admiral Heinrich Ruhfus , August 1940 - September 1942
- Sea captain Fritz Berger, September 1942 - May 1943
- Sea captain Wilhelm Schönberg, May 1943 - April 1945
- Rear Admiral Hans Hartmann , April 1945 until the department was closed on August 31, 1945
Famous pepole
- Hans Filbinger : from January 1945 as naval staff judge at the office and responsible for judgments by the field courts , prosecutor for Walter Gröger
- Adolf Harms : from the end of 1944 as naval chief judge at the office and responsible for judgments by the field courts, judge in the proceedings against Walter Gröger
literature
- Walter Lohmann , Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume II, main chapter XII, chapters 1 and 2
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 1, p. 9 f.
- ^ A b c Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume II, main chapter XII, chapter 2, p. 3
- ↑ a b Entry on Rear Admiral Hans Hartmann at Special Camp 11 , accessed on March 1, 2020 (English)
- ^ Wolfram Wette: Filbinger, a German career . Zu Klampen, 2006, ISBN 978-3-934920-74-3 , pp. 46 ( google.de [accessed on March 28, 2020]).
- ↑ “He undermined male discipline” - DER SPIEGEL 16/1972 Retrieved March 2, 2020 .