School Squadron (German Navy)
The school squadron of the German Navy was a training association of several school boats that existed from 1956 to 1963. It is to be distinguished from the Ostsee school squadron that existed from 1956 to 1958 .
history
The school squadron was set up in Wilhelmshaven with a deployment order dated November 20, 1956 under the designation 1st Escort Squadron and placed directly under the command of the naval forces . It was in February 1957, five repurchased from France former minesweepers of the type 1935 equipped to school boats / chasers of the Wasp class were rebuilt. They were named bee , brake , brummer , bumblebee and wasp , which gave the squadron the nickname insect squadron .
On November 14, 1957, the squadron moved to Cuxhaven and was placed under the command of the destroyers on April 1, 1958 . On October 1, 1959, the squadron was placed under the command of naval training . At the same time, the school boats Eider and Trave were placed under him as tenders. On July 1, 1960, the squadron relocated to the Kiel naval base while renaming it to the school squadron and was placed under the command of the training ships on April 1, 1961 . With the simultaneous decommissioning of all escort boats, the squadron was disbanded on September 30, 1963. The boats Eider and Trave then changed tasks and subordination several times.
tasks
The squadron, even if it was originally referred to as an escort squadron, had the task of being a training squadron from the start. His travels were mainly used to train reserve and temporary officer candidates . In addition, the squadron took part in NATO maneuvers, mainly because the German Navy, which was under construction, initially had hardly any other units that were suitable for further missions and military operations.
During the Berlin crisis that began in November 1958 , the squadron with the first reserve officer candidates of the German Navy, who had started their service on April 1, 1958, instead of the planned training trip, ran to Gibraltar fully ammunition and returned to Cuxhaven shortly before Christmas 1958. In January 1959 a training trip followed for the same crew with ports in Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy, some of which were the first visits by German warships to the respective country after the Second World War .
Commanders
| No. | Rank | Surname | Beginning of the command | End of command | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6th | Frigate captain | Horst von Schroeter | April 1, 1963 | September 30, 1963 | |
| 5 | FKpt | Carlheinz Head of Department | October 1, 1961 | March 31, 1963 | |
| 4th | Corvette Captain / Fpt | Egon Freiherr von Schlippenbach | May 1, 1960 | September 30, 1961 | July 1, 1960: Renamed the School Squadron |
| 3 | FKpt / KzS | Adolf Piening | April 1, 1959 | April 30, 1960 | |
| 2 | FKpt | Hans Dehnert | October 16, 1957 | March 31, 1959 | |
| 1 | FKpt | Otto Kretschmer | January 3, 1957 | October 15, 1957 |
See also
literature
- Siegfried Breyer, Gerhard Koop: The ships, vehicles and planes of the German Navy 1956 until today . Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-7637-5950-6 .
- Wolfgang Harnack: The destroyer flotilla of the German Navy from 1958 until today . Köhler, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0816-1 .
Web links
- Holdings BM 32. Federal Archives / Military Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Michael Salewski . Navy and history - a personal confrontation . Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-88579-472-1
- ↑ Jörg Hillmann, Reinhard Scheiblich: The red castle by the sea. The Mürwik Naval School since its foundation . Convent Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-934613-26-3