Commander of the Stavanger Sea Defense

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

history

After the German occupation of Norway in April 1940, the navy set up the office of the sea ​​commandant Stavanger in May 1940 , whose headquarters were in the city of the same name. She was subordinate to the Admiral of the Norwegian west coast .

The command of the sea commander initially extended from Jössingfjord to Haugesund . The neighboring sea command offices were Bergen in the north and Kristiansand-Süd in the south. In the course of the war, the borders were adjusted several times in order to improve the uniform command of the coastal artillery.

Subordinate departments and associations

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

  • Port captain / -commander Haugesund, later to sea commander Bergen and 1945 back to the office
  • Port captain Kopervik ( Karmøy ), later to sea commander Bergen and 1945 back to the office
  • Port Captain / Commander Stavanger
  • Port captain Egersund
  • Stavanger harbor protection flotilla , later Stavanger harbor protection group
  • Naval Artillery Department 503 ( Randaberg / Kvitingsöy), set up in June 1940 as the Naval Artillery Department Stavanger , final designation from July 1940
  • Stavanger naval artillery equipment office, from 1943 naval artillery arsenal , later artillery weapons command
  • Naval Equipment Station Stavanger
  • Navy Flaka Department 714 (from November 1944)

In the area of ​​command of the sea commander Stavanger was the sea transport point Stavanger, which was subordinate to the sea transport chief Norway.

Naval commanders

The following officers held the post of sea commander Kristiansand-Süd:

  • Sea captain Otto Fricke , May - July 1940
  • Sea captain Günther von der Forst , July 1940 - May 1941
  • Sea captain Carlos Mejer-Pantin (former first staff officer of the service), June 1941 - August 1943
  • Sea captain Werner Goette (former sea commander Crete and fortress commander Pillau), August 1943 - March 1945
  • Sea captain Bernhard Viehweger, March 1945 - dissolution of the office

literature

  • Walter Lohmann , Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume II, main chapter XII, chapter 3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 3, p. 8 f.
  2. ↑ 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. 234 ( google.de [accessed on March 22, 2020]).