Commander of the Maritime Defense of South Jutland
The commander of the naval defense Jutland , short sea commandant South Jutland , was a regional coastal commander of the German Navy in World War II , which the commander Admiral Skagerrak was assumed. The office emerged in April 1944 from the previous section of the Danish west coast and parts of the section South Jutland . The Danish Islands Sea Command was formed from the rest of the South Jutland section . The staff was in Esbjerg .
Section of the Danish west coast
The Danish west coast was the forerunner of the Maritime Command of South Jutland. It was erected after the occupation of Denmark in April 1940 and stretched from the German border to the Limfjord . The following associations and departments were subordinate to the commander in the section:
- Esbjerg harbor protection flotilla
- Port Captain / Commander Esbjerg
- Naval equipment station Esbjerg
- Port Commandant Thyborøn (with the conversion to Maritime Command North Jutland )
- Marine Flaka Department 204 (Esbjerg, previously Westerland )
Commanders:
- Sea captain Gottfried Mollmann: from the establishment until June 1940, later in command of the naval defense of South Holland
- Corvette Captain Ulrich Jakobs: from July 1940 to April 1941
- Frigate Captain Oskar Steckelberg: from April 1940 to March 1944, former commander of, among others, SM UB 6 and SM UC 4
- Frigate Captain Kurt Besthorn: April 1944 (dissolution of the office)
Maritime Command South Jutland
In April 1944, the Danish west coast was converted to the Maritime Command South Jutland, with the area of responsibility being adjusted. It stretched on the North Sea coast from the German-Danish border (excluding the island of Röm ) to the southern tip of the Ringköbingfjord . On the Baltic Sea it stretched from the German-Danish border to Randers Fjord . The following associations and departments were subordinate to him:
- Port Guard Flotilla Esbjerg (from September 1944 16th Security Flotilla, subordinated to the 8th Security Division )
- Port Commander Aarhus (from the North Jutland section )
- Port Captain Grenaa
- Port Captain Fredericia
- Naval artillery department 518 (Fanø, established in September 1944)
- Naval Artillery Division 523 (Grenaa)
- Naval Artillery Division 524 (Aarhus)
- Marine Flak Department 204 (Esbjerg)
- Naval Flak Department 717 (Aarhus)
The naval artillery and anti-aircraft positions formed part of the Atlantic Wall along with units from the other armed forces on the Danish west coast . Some of the guns came from decommissioned warships such as the German battleship Gneisenau and the Danish coastal armored ship Peder Skram .
Naval Commanders:
- Frigate Captain Kurt Besthorn: April / May 1944, former commandant of the Danish west coast section
- Captain Franz Bauer: from May 1944 to the dissolution of the agency, former commander in the Emden section and maritime commander Loire
literature
- Walter Lohmann , Hans H. Hildebrand. The German Navy 1939–1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume II, main chapter XI, chapters 2 and 5
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand. The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume II, main chapter XI, chapter 5, p. 1 f.
- ^ Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand. The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume II, main chapter XI, chapter 2, p. 1 f.
- ↑ Fanø im Atlantikwall (Danish), accessed April 17, 2019