Commanding Admiral Western Baltic Sea

Commanding Admiral Western Baltic Sea was the name of a military agency of the German Navy and its commander that existed from November 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 Ahlbeck on Usedom .

The area of command extended from the German-Danish border to the west of the mouth of the Leba River in Pomerania . He was also assigned to the Danish island of Bornholm .

history

The forerunner of the Commanding Admiral Western Baltic Sea was the Coast Commander Western Baltic Sea , whose office was disbanded in November 1944. The tasks were transferred to the commanding admiral western Baltic Sea and to several subordinate naval command offices .

Subordinate associations and agencies

At the same time as the establishment of the agency, sea command offices were set up to limit the range of command, which functioned as an intermediate level between the commanding admiral and the subordinate units. In addition, individual other departments were directly subordinate to the commanding admiral:

Naval direction finding department II ( Lüchow ), later naval main direction finding station II ( Flensburg )

Commander of the naval defense of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg

Commander of the Pomeranian Sea Defense

Commander of the Mecklenburg Sea Defense (only planning in April 1945, not implemented)

Island commander Bornholm (previously under the command of the Danish Islands Naval Defense ) with light naval artillery division 535 (established in January 1945)

Commanders and Commanding Admirals

The following officers held the position of Commanding Admiral Western Baltic Sea:

Vice Admiral Werner Lange , November 1944 - April 1945
Rear Admiral Günther Schubert , April - May 1945

literature

Walter Lohmann , Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume I, main chapter VIII, chapter 8

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume I, main chapter VIII, chapter 8, 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 3, p. 1 f.

[LH88-1-1] A ^b ^c Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume I, main chapter VIII, chapter 8, p. 1 f.

[LH83-1-2] Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand. The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume I, main chapter VIII, chapter 3, p. 1 f.