Commander of the Naval Defense of South Holland

The commandant of the Maritime Defense South Holland , or Seekommandant Südholland for short , was a regional coastal commander of the German Navy in World War II based in Vlissingen . He was subordinate to the naval commander in the Netherlands , from 1943 commanding admiral in the Netherlands .

history

After the German occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War in June 1940, the Navy deployed the sea commander South Holland, who was responsible for the Dutch coast from a little south of Scheveningen to the Belgian border. In the north the area of ​​the sea ​​command of North Holland joined, in the south the area of ​​the port commander Antwerp .

In November 1944 parts of the command area were lost. Therefore, the northern part of the area was assigned to the newly created Seekommandantur Mittelholland , including Hoek van Holland , and the agency was dissolved.

Subordinate departments and associations

German battery at Hoek van Holland

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

• Harbor Commander Hook of Holland
• Port commander Vlissingen
• Harbor Protection Flotilla South Holland, placed under the authority of the leader of the Dutch Motorboat Associations in December 1941, disbanded in early 1943 and units assigned to the port commanders
• Marine artillery department 202 (Vlissingen, later Domburg / Walcheren )
• Naval artillery department 203 ( Cadzand )
• Naval artillery department 205 (Hook of Holland)
• Marine Flaka Department 703 (until October 1941, Vlissingen)
• Marine Flaka Department 810 (from July 1941, Vlissingen)
• Marine Flaka Department 813 (from February 1942, Hoek van Holland)

Naval commanders

The following officers held the post of sea commander South Holland:

• Sea captain Gottfried Mollmann, June 1940 - March 1943, former sea ​​commander of the Danish west coast
• Sea captain Werner Peters , March 1943 - December 1943
• Sea captain Frank Aschmann, January - November 1944, later sole commandant of the North Frisian naval defense

literature

• Walter Lohmann , Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume II, main chapter XIII, chapter 2

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 XIII, chapter 2, p. 12 f.