Naval Telecommunications Staff 70
The Marine Fernmeldestab 70 (MFmStab 70) was an association of the German Navy , the task of which was the telecommunications and electronic reconnaissance . It was set up on September 1, 1960 under the designation Marinefernmeldeababschnitt 7 in Flensburg - Mürwik and led by a commander in the rank of captain at sea . In 2002, the naval telecommunications staff 70 became the telecommunications area 91 , which in turn became part of the 911 Electronic Warfare Battalion.
history
German naval telecommunications reconnaissance before the deployment of the German Navy
Even before the establishment of the Federal Navy in 1956, there were German institutions under Allied leadership that carried out telecommunications intelligence against activities of the Soviet Union and its allies in the Baltic Sea area. The speedboats of the British Baltic Fishery Protection Service, also known as Schnellbootgruppe Klose , were equipped with DF antennas and were used for telecommunications reconnaissance from 1951 onwards. They mainly cleared up coastal positions in the Baltic States, including the radio frequencies used.
On January 1, 1954, a land-based registration center was also set up, which was operated by former members of the B-Dienst , the communications intelligence organization of the Navy . From June 1955 it was housed in the former naval communications school and later naval telecommunications school at the Flensburg-Mürwik naval base and disguised as US Naval Service Detachment No.3 . Its leader was the former sea captain Budde, who later became the commander of Naval Telecommunications Staff 70.
Establishment of telecommunications and electronic reconnaissance in the German Navy
The radio reconnaissance company was set up on June 4, 1956, and was subordinated to the 1st Marine Telecommunication Department / Marine Telecommunication Section Baltic Sea on July 1, 1956 . Further facilities followed and were partially subordinated to the Baltic Sea marine tracking section . On September 1, 1960, these existing reconnaissance facilities were combined to form Marine Telecommunications Section 7 . On July 1, 1970, this association was reclassified and renamed Naval Telecommunications Staff 70 .
organization
The naval telecommunications staff 70 was subordinate to the naval section command in the Baltic Sea and for operations to the commander of the naval forces of the Baltic Sea , from 1961 to the fleet command . In 1967 the troop subordination to the Baltic Sea Division and in 1974 to the Naval Command Service (from April 1, 1995 Flotilla of Naval Command Services ).
The association consisted of a staff and several units, initially called telecommunication groups , then telecommunication companies and finally telecommunication sectors.
Rod
The staff at Twedter Feld in Flensburg-Mürwik on the Tremmeruper area there (today: Tremmerup forest settlement ) was responsible for basic telecommunications and electronic reconnaissance tasks for the Navy. Over time, the tasks of the headquarters grew. On September 30, 1982, when Marine Telecommunications Group 72 was dissolved, its tasks were transferred to the staff and the staff for mobile recording on board the fleet service boats and measuring aircraft was integrated into the staff. To evaluate the underwater reconnaissance, the Hydroacoustic Analysis Center Marine (HAM) was set up as part of the staff on August 1, 1986 .
Marine Telecommunications Sector 71
The naval telecommunications sector 71 was set up on September 1, 1960 in Flensburg-Mürwik. His job was telecommunications intelligence. Initially, four naval telecommunications stations were subordinate to him:
- MFmSt 711 in Neustadt-Pelzerhaken ( COMINT )
- MFmSt 712 in Soest ( Peiler Mitte ) with field office List / Sylt and detached Peiltrupp in Wittmund
- MFmSt 713 in Falshöft near Gelting ( Peiler Nord )
- MFmSt 714 in Langenargen on Lake Constance ( Peiler Süd )
After several reclassifications and relocations, it existed from around 1970
- MFmSt 711 in Neustadt-Pelzerhaken (COMINT)
- MFmSt 713 in Lunden ( direction finding center north )
- MFmSt 714 in Langenargen on Lake Constance ( Peilzentrale Süd )
In the 1990s these positions were gradually closed and replaced by the large-scale direction finding system Kastagnette in Bramstedtlund near Leck , to which the naval telecommunications sector 71 relocated on December 1, 1994.
Marine Telecommunications Sector 72
The marine telecommunications sector 72 was set up on January 1, 1962 in Glücksburg - Meierwik and relocated to Flensburg on March 1, 1978. The personnel of Naval Telecommunications Sector 72 were deployed on board of fleet service boats and measuring aircraft for reconnaissance in and above sea. Sector 72 was disbanded on September 30, 1982 and the staff was incorporated into Naval Telecommunications Staff 70.
Marine Telecommunications Sector 73
The naval telecommunications sector 73 was set up on April 29, 1970 in Neustadt in Holstein. He operated mainly communications intelligence close to the German border and had a stationary finding device, which in an as telecommunications tower M designated reconnaissance storm was housed in Pelzerhaken in Neustadt. In addition, she was subordinate to a branch in Marienuchter on Fehmarn ( Marine Fernmeldezug 736 ), which operated both telecommunications and electronic reconnaissance.
The reconnaissance against the People's Navy of the GDR was discontinued in August and September 1990 and the naval telecommunications sector 73 was dissolved on September 30, 1992.
Fleet service boats
The Navy operated measuring boats and aircraft as mobile reconnaissance facilities. The aircraft of the type Breguet Atlantic BR 1150 M always belonged to Naval Aviation Squadron 3 . The reconnaissance ships Alster , Oste and Oker , later referred to as fleet service boats , belonged to the fleet service squadron until the end of 1992 and, after its dissolution on January 1, 1993, were subordinated to naval telecommunications staff 70.
Succession
On March 31, 2002 the naval telecommunications staff 70 was handed over by the navy to the armed forces base and renamed telecommunications area 91 , which was stationed at the naval base in Flensburg-Mürwik. Telecommunications area 91, however, was dissolved again on March 21, 2013. Large parts of the area went to Stadum as a new battalion of 911 electronic warfare (EloKaBtl 911) (cf. EloKa telecommunications troops ). The property of the telecommunications area 91 on the eastern edge of the base near Twedter Mark was therefore given up.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lecture by Dr. Sigurd Hess, KAdm a. D .: The Baltic Sea Operations of the HH Klose, 1949 - 1955 ( Memento from February 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e f g History of telecommunications and electronic reconnaissance in the Navy
- ↑ a b Federal Archives / Military Archives Stock BM 34 ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Armed forces base, Moin Moin and goodbye , accessed on: April 1, 2015
- ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : The great withdrawal of troops: Bundeswehr: Kehraus an der Förde? , dated: October 27, 2011; Retrieved on: April 1, 2015 and telecommunications area 91: Flensburg telecommunications send an optimistic mood. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . November 10, 2011, accessed April 3, 2015 . as well as telecommunications benefit from the Bundeswehr reform. In: Nordfriesland Tageblatt . November 10, 2011, accessed April 3, 2015 .