Naval Aviation Squadron 2
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Marine Aviation Squadron 2 |
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  "Old" coat of arms 1960–1993 - "new" coat of arms 1994–2005 |
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| active | April 1, 1958 to August 9, 2005 |
| Country |
 Germany
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| Armed forces |
 armed forces
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| Armed forces |
marine
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| Type | squadron |
| Strength | 209 (2005) |
| former seat |
 Tarp ,
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| motto | The air over sea belongs to the MFG |
| Anniversaries | April 1, 1958 |
| Awards | Aviation Safety Award (1984) |
| Aircraft | |
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Fighter aircraft / helicopter |
Hawker Sea Hawk F-104 Starfighter Panavia Tornado |
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Reconnaissance aircraft / helicopter |
Fairey Gannet |
The Marinefliegergeschwader 2 (MFG 2) was an aircraft squadron of the Federal Navy and the German Navy that was in service from 1958 to 2005.
assignment
The MFG 2's mission was naval warfare from the air. Apart from the anti- submarine role, which was still performed in the first few years , his task was essentially the fighter-bomber and the reconnaissance role. In addition to photo sensors, the squadron's planes had various weapons. In the beginning, this included on-board cannons and unguided bombs, later sea target and anti-radar missiles were added.
history
2nd Naval Aviation Group 1958–1959
The order No. 41 for the formation of the German naval aviators of June 26, 1956 provided for the formation of two airborne units in addition to the newly created naval aviation command (MFKdo) in Kiel:
- of the 1st Marine Aviation Group (1st MFGr), responsible for the Baltic Sea area,
- of the 2nd Naval Aviation Group (2nd MFGr), responsible for the North Sea area.
The latter unit was set up on April 1, 1958 at the Kiel-Holtenau air base, as the medium-term planned location, the Nordholz air base , was not yet ready for use. At first it consisted only of the group staff and the eyrie group.
In Kropp / Jagel , the 1st reconnaissance squadron of the 2nd MFGr was put into service on September 1, 1958, which - actually intended for aerial reconnaissance - was initially intended to serve training. The need for aircraft provided for some Hawker Sea Hawk , Fairey Gannet , Fouga Magister and some Piaggio P.149 . However, since neither the infrastructure nor the team strength of 900 men (initially it was less than 200) could be achieved, the group initially only existed on paper. On September 30, 1958, however, the squadron was able to report its "full" operational capability. It initially consisted of:
- 6 Sea Hawk Mk. 100/101.
- 2 Fairey Gannet AS.Mk.4 / T.Mk.5,
- 3 Fouga Masters.
The entire group was united in Jagel by February 1959. It then consisted of six squadrons, three non-flying squadrons (Horst squadron, telecommunications and locating squadron, and technical squadron) and three flying squadrons (a multi-purpose squadron and the 1st and 2nd reconnaissance squadron). The establishment of the group was supported by personnel from the British Royal Navy .
As early as 1959, the Jagel site, also the site of the 1st Marine Aviation Squadron, had become too small, and so the entire 2nd MFGr relocated to the Schleswig-See base. A short time later, at least the newly formed 1st Reconnaissance Squadron returned to Jagel.
2. Marinefliegergeschwader / Marinefliegergeschwader 2 of the Federal Navy 1960–1993
At the beginning of 1960 there was a restructuring of the structure of the naval aviation based on that of the air force, and so the 2nd MFGr officially became the 2nd Naval Aviation Squadron on August 1, 1960 . In the spring of 1960, the squadron returned from the Schleswig-See barracks to Jagel.
After less than a year, the space in Jagel was no longer sufficient because the 2nd multi-purpose squadron now consisted of 18 Sea Hawk and 7 liaison aircraft. Therefore, in October 1961, the reconnaissance squadron was given to the new 1st MFG and 18 Fairey Gannets were taken over in exchange for this . They formed the new U-Jagdstaffel, which moved to Sylt in February 1962 with a technical component .
At the time the association was set up, the Nordholz air base was intended as a base. However, this first had to be expanded and could not take up the first parts of the squadron until the summer of 1962. At the beginning of 1963 the expansion was completed, and by April 28, the entire 2nd Marine Aviation Squadron had been relocated to Nordholz.
The 2nd MFG was divided in 1964. The new Marinefliegergeschwader 3 set up on June 1st became an U-Jagdgeschwader and took over the U-Jagdstaffel previously stationed on Sylt, which was relocated to Nordholz in October. The Marinefliegergeschwader 2 , so the new name, became a pure fighter-bomber squadron after the gannets were handed over to the MFG 3 , which initially remained stationed in Nordholz.
Starting in 1960, which also replaced in the Air Force introduced F / RF / TF-104G "Starfighter" The Sea Hawk of naval aviation. The runway in Nordholz was too short for this aircraft, and there was not enough accommodation either. Therefore, large parts of the technical group had to be relocated to Drangstedt . Before the MFG 2 was relocated to Eggebek Air Base, the Nordholz Naval Aviation organized an open day on June 14, 1964.
The move back to Schleswig-Holstein began in September 1964 and after a while the Eggebek Air Base was taken over by the Air Force, whose reconnaissance wing 52 was stationed there until October 1964. The associated barracks (from 1985 Friedrich Wilhelm Lübke barracks ) was located in Tarp . The official handover of the site took place on March 12, 1965. The first own F-104G arrived on the 17th of the month and a few days later the MFG 2 also received the reconnaissance variant of the "Starfighter", the RF-104G. The last Sea Hawks left the base the following summer, and the squadron operated two airborne squadrons of the F-104 for the next two decades. The Magister and the P.149 were used until 1973.
When an RF-104G of MFG 2 crashed in March 1970, the son of the then Bundestag President and former Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel , Joachim von Hassel, was killed.
The "Starfighter" was in service with MFG 2 for over two decades, and in 1981/82, when MFG 1 was converted to the "Tornado", its 2nd season was also operated as 3rd season for one year. In the last years of service of the "F-104" the MFG 2 operated the aerobatic team "Vikings". It consisted of two "star fighters" with a special paint scheme. An F-104, the 22 + 01, is now in the Technik-Museum Speyer as 26 + 63 with this special paint .
The MFG 2 was one of the last users of the F-104. Both squadrons gave up their "Starfighter" by the summer of 1986 and upgraded to the new Panavia Tornado weapon system on September 11, 1986 , for which the runway in Eggebek had to be renewed beforehand. For this purpose, the F-104 of the MFG 2, which were becoming fewer, moved to the Jagel Air Base (today Schleswig) at short notice .
Naval Aviation Squadron of the German Navy 1994–2005
1993 brought a reduction in troops after the end of the Cold War and a renewed restructuring of the naval aviation. MFG 1 was dissolved at the end of the year and part of the squadron including 10 "tornadoes" was transferred to MFG 2 in Eggebek. The previous 2nd season of MFG 1 finally became the 3rd season of MFG 2, the squadron's oldest flying squadron from this point in time. As a result, a new coat of arms was introduced on January 1, 1994, which combined the elements of the two previous coats of arms.
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As part of the crisis reaction forces , parts of the MFG 2 moved annually from 1995 to Roosevelt Roads , until 2004 a base of the US Navy. After relocating a part of the squadron to Ovar to review the mission in 2000, MFG 2 was the first association assigned to NATO to receive the status "Fully Mission Capable".
The decision to completely decommission the naval fighter-bombers and thus the dissolution of MFG 2 was made in 2003. Other units of the naval aviation and the air force received some of the weapon systems. In June 2005 the last two machines, the 45 + 14 and 45 + 02, left the Eggebek location in the direction of Nörvenich. The MFG 2 was officially decommissioned on August 9, 2005 and on January 1, 2006 the history of the Bundeswehr location Eggebek also ended.
structure
The last small reclassification took place in 1997. Since that time and until the beginning of the disbandment phase, the squadron was structured as follows. In addition, an anti-aircraft component equipped with Roland was added until September 2001 .
- Squadron staff
- Flying group
- 1. Flying relay (operational relay)
- 2. Flying relay (operational relay)
- 3rd flying squadron (training and test squadron with a flight simulator and the tactics and experiments group)
- Flight operations squadron
- Aerodrome maintenance squadron
- Geophysical BSt.
- Technical group
- Repair relay
- Electronics relay
- Maintenance and weapons relay
- Supply and transport relay
- Naval aviation location medical center (handed over to the medical service of the Bundeswehr in 2002)
Commodore
| No. | Rank | Surname | vocation |
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| 1. | Frigate captain | Werner Klümper | from 04/01/1958 |
| 2. | Frigate captain | Berthold Jung | from January 16, 1959 |
| 3. | Frigate captain | Ernst H. Thomsen | from October 1st, 1959 |
| 4th | Sea captain | Helmut Lorenz | from 04/01/1960 |
| 5. | Sea captain | Rolf Lemp | from December 20, 1965 |
| 6th | Sea captain | Helmuth Otto | from 09/30/1969 |
| 7th | Sea captain | Kurt Ziebis | from 04/01/1974 |
| 8th. | Sea captain | Willi Scheyka | from 03/23/1977 |
| 9. | Sea captain | Jürgen Stief | from 06/24/1981 |
| 10. | Sea captain | Wolfgang Engelmann | from April 2nd, 1985 |
| 11. | Sea captain | Volker Liche | from 09/28/1987 |
| 12. | Sea captain | Lutz Pfeiffer | from April 1st, 1990 |
| 13. | Sea captain | Manfred Hartmann | from 11/30/1994 |
| 14th | Sea captain | Michael Mollenhauer | from 17.09.1997 |
| 15th | Sea captain | Gerhard Pichl | from 12/22/2001 |
literature
- German Marine Institute: Naval Aviators . ES Mittler & Sohn, Herford, Bonn 1988, ISBN 3-8132-0295-X .
- Gerhard Koop / Siegfried Breyer: The ships, vehicles and planes of the German Navy from 1956 until today . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-7637-5950-6 .
