Commanding Admiral Eastern Baltic Sea
Commanding Admiral Eastern Baltic Sea was the name of a military agency of the German Navy and its commander, which existed from June 1944 to May 1945. The commanding admiral was subordinate to the Commander in Chief of the Naval High Command Baltic Sea . The staff was in Libau until February 1945 and then moved to Hela with a short stopover in Gotenhafen .
history
The forerunner of the commanding admiral eastern Baltic Sea was the commanding admiral Ostland , whose office was dissolved in June 1944. His tasks were transferred to the commanding admiral eastern Baltic Sea.
The area of command initially corresponded to that of the commanding Admiral Ostland and extended from the main battle line in the north to the German- Lithuanian border. In November 1944, the responsibilities in the Baltic Sea area were reorganized. The sea command of East and West Prussia and the fortress commander Memel were added to the eastern Baltic Sea command area, which thus stretched from the main battle line to Leba in the west.
Subordinate associations and agencies
Subordinate to the commanding admiral eastern Baltic Sea:
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9. Fuse Division
- 14th Security Flotilla (until July 1944 Reval Coast Guard Flotilla )
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Commander of the Estonian Sea Defense , from September 1944 Commander of the Baltic Islands Sea Defense
- Naval Artillery Division 531
- Naval Operations Department Ostland
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Commander of the Naval Defense of Latvia
- 9. Marine Automotive Department
- Naval Fortress Engineer Battalion 321
- Commander of the sea defense East and West Prussia (from December 1944 and division of the sea areas in January 1945)
- Commander in the Memel section, at the same time fortress commander (until October 1944; Emil Ruhfus July 1941 to June 1943)
- Port captain Memel, at the same time blocking commander Memel
- Marine-Flak -Aabteilung 217 (the planned establishment of a Marine-Flak -teilung 218 was no longer realized)
- Directly subordinate departments
- Sea Transport Manager Eastern Baltic Sea
- Oberwerftstab Ostland (dissolved in October 1944)
- 4th Artillery Carrier Flotilla ( Dorpat , disbanded from January 1944, September 1944)
- Port Commander Riga
- Island commander Groß Tütters (Tytärsaari, Bolshoy Tyuters) (from April 1942)
- Naval Operations Department Ostland (dissolved in Hela in December 1944)
- 5. Naval flight reporting department
Commanding admirals
The following officers held the position of Commanding Admiral Eastern Baltic:
- Admiral Theodor Burchardi , June 1944 - April 18, 1945 (previously commanding Admiral Ostland, from April 1945 in British captivity)
- Vice Admiral August Thiele , April 28 - May 12, 1945
literature
- Walter Lohmann , Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume I, main chapter VIII, chapter 9
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume I, main chapter VIII, chapter 9, p. 1 f.
- ^ Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand. The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume I, main chapter VIII, chapter 7, p. 1 f.