Technical Naval School (Kiel)

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Coat of arms of the TMS

The Technical Naval School was a military school of the German Navy in Kiel from 1911 to 2002 . At the time of the German Navy , an offshoot was created in Bremerhaven .

history

With the armament and mechanization of the Imperial Navy , the training capacities of the engineering and deck officers' school in Wilhelmshaven were exhausted. The Reichsmarineamt decided to build a second school in Kiel-Wik . The shell with school, residential and farm buildings and machine house was completed in 1912. A tower was intended as a platform for observations and measurements by the helmsman students. The other buildings were used to train 170 deck officers and 130 engineering students.

“The architecture is kept in the local style of the brick building in Schleswig-Holstein. ... The openwork roof constructions are also particularly beautiful. All in all, a facility has been created that adorns our city. "

- Kieler Zeitung, September 20, 1913

First lesson

Engineering and deck officers school

Scheduled classes began on October 6, 1913. When the First World War began, the students were distributed to warships. A reserve hospital came into the school. Since there was a lack of technical staff everywhere, school operations were resumed on April 1, 1915. The school now also trained the engineering candidates of the North Sea naval station .

After the November Revolution , the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council had to decide on the resumption of school operations. Given the uncertain future of the Navy, it was important to maintain the school and enable the remaining course participants to complete their technical training.

Imperial Navy

In 1919 the school was renamed Marineschule Kiel , and the school kept this name until 1945. Commanders were now naval engineers and later engineer officers. All engineering candidates, from 1921 all engineering officer candidates, were instructed in mathematical, scientific and marine engineering subjects. The increasing importance of the Kiel Naval School is shown, among other things, in the fact that in 1931 the post of commander was filled with a rear admiral (engineer). Since the Peace Treaty of Versailles considerably limited the scope of the Imperial Navy, the school was occupied by only 250 to 300 men in 1933; but the training was very intensive and thorough, as in the entire Reichswehr .

Navy

The steadily increasing number of pupils since the introduction of compulsory military service forced the Kiel Naval School to expand. In 1934 the school building (building A) and the residential building (building B) were expanded. In 1937/38 two new apartment blocks (Blocks C and D) were added to accommodate three student companies and another farm building (old farm building). A sports field was built north of this farm building. In anticipation of the need for air defense , the tower was increased in 1939.

Barracks were built to accommodate the 2000 course participants . The construction of a second machine hall has started. As was the number of soldiers increased to over 3000, served two HAPAG boats offer - the Milwaukee and New York - in Tirpitzhafen as barges . In 1941, the Kiel Naval School was assigned the neighboring building of the Naval College. At the same time, the barracks between Feldstrasse and Wiker Strasse (Scheerlager) were handed over. During Admiral Kaufmann's tenure, the number of students exceeded 4,000. Machine Hall II went into operation on April 1, 1943. It contained a complete destroyer propulsion system and speedboat engines, but was not completely finished by the end of the war.

At the beginning of 1943 there were three departments:

  1. Oberfeldwebel and NCO specialty courses in 6 companies
  2. Special courses for submarine training in 3 companies
  3. Training of engineering officers and engineering officer candidates in 3 companies

The air raids on Kiel only destroyed the farm building with the officers' quarters .

reconstruction

Machine hall I (Kiel)

When the Bundeswehr was founded and the Bundesmarine was growing up, the need for ship technicians was obvious. On May 23, 1956 , the Federal Minister of Defense Theodor Blank ordered the technical naval school to be set up in Kiel on June 1, 1956. The frigate captain August Wilhelm Heye was in charge of her . The machine halls I and II had only minor external damage; the training facilities - motors, pumps, laboratories, machines and devices - were only partially preserved. Equipment still available in machine hall I was used for training in the post-war period by the engineering school in Kiel and the technical aid organization . The residential buildings "C" and "D" as well as the western part of the farm building were bomb-damaged; only the roof was repaired in the meantime. The north wing of the teaching building (Block A) was also destroyed. The rest of the building was rented to civilian users because of the limited living space in Kiel. Other parts of the barracks were used by schools . A night club was set up in the auditorium . Machine Hall II was stripped of all still usable inventory. The building was in very poor condition.

Sea border protection in particular helped out of these embarrassments . He had given up technical training in Cuxhaven and had all equipment transported to Kiel. The Federal Border Police had cleared the TMS buildings there. Many officers and sergeants from the BGS also came to the TMS as teachers. On November 1, 1956, the first mate's course began. The renovation of machine hall I was completed in January 1958. In July 12 lecture halls could be occupied. In December 1958, staff and troop administration moved into the wing of the building on Arkonastraße. In May 1960 the north wing and the farm building were completed. From the summer of 1961 it was possible to feed the troops from their own kitchen.

TMS I and II

TMS II (Bremerhaven)

Civil tenants had been given notice and replacement living space had been procured; But since some buildings were still being used for other purposes and there was not enough space to accommodate the course participants, the basic technical training for teams was relocated to Bremerhaven . The buildings of the Wesermünde Naval School from 1935 still stood there. This branch of the Technical Naval School, Bremerhaven became the Technical Naval School II on April 1, 1959 . She was responsible for the courses for guests and mates , basic technological courses for officer cadets and special courses. Kiel ran bosun and officer training.

MTS teaching group A

When the Naval Technology School was established in Parow in Western Pomerania in 1996 , TMS Kiel became its teaching group A. It comprised four inspections :

  1. Course participants, lecture hall leaders and lecture hall group leaders of the officers' courses
  2. Boatswain courses
  3. Maate and (from summer 1997) team courses for three months each
  4. civilian vocational training and further education for prospective officers

The 1st and 2nd inspection carried out system training for frigates of the Bremen class and the Brandenburg class , for speedboats of the Albatros class and the Gepard class , for mine sweepers of the Frankenthal class and for hunting boats of the Hameln class .

The course program comprised 30 different types of courses from one week to twelve months. That have been formed using rows 42 (drive technology), 43 (electrical engineering) and 44 (marine engineering). NCOs and sergeants of the Luftwaffe also came to the courses . From April 1, 2000, the Naval Aviation Training Inspection in Westerland was subordinate to the Naval Technology School Teaching Group A in Kiel.

In 2002 the TMS was dissolved.

Commanders

No. Rank Surname Commencement Retirement
1 Sea captain Karl Wedding October 1913 August 1914
2 Frigate captain Paul Wolfram April 1915 June 1915
3 Sea captain Walter Michaelis July 1915 August 1916
4th Sea captain Wilhelm Bruckmeyer August 1916 July 1917
5 Sea captain Harry Graf Posadowsky-Wehner August 1917 April 1918
6th Sea captain Otto Hillebrand April 1918 November 1918
7th Rear Admiral (Ing.) Werner Bettenhäuser October 1931 November 1939
8th Rear Admiral (Ing.) Karl Thäter November 1939 August 1942
9 Rear Admiral (Ing.) Karl Kaufmann September 1942 March 1945
10 Sea captain (Ing.) Walter Graser April 1945 May 1945
11 Sea captain Walter Kretzschmar October 1956 February 1959
12 Frigate captain August Wilhelm Heye March 1959 June 1959
13 Sea captain Hans Rudolf Gern July 1959 March 1965
14th Sea captain Wilhelm Gördes April 1965 September 1967
15th Sea captain Karl Fuest October 1967 April 1972
16 Sea captain Karl-Heinrich Kühler April 1972 August 1973
17th Sea captain Hugo Renzmann August 1973 September 1980
18th Sea captain Joachim Rybakowski October 1980 September 1983
19th Sea captain Jürgen Färber October 1983 March 1987
20th Sea captain Jürgen Rautmann April 1987 March 1989
21st Sea captain Norbert Schütte April 1989 March 1992
22nd Sea captain Dieter Laabs October 1992 March 1994
23 Sea captain Gerd Clausen April 1994 September 1997
24 Sea captain Horst-Dieter Kolletschke October 1997 September 1999
25th Sea captain Ernst August Petsch October 1999 March 2001
26th Sea captain Volkhart Meyer April 2001 December 2002

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maritime Quarter (Kiel)

Coordinates: 54 ° 21 ′ 36 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 6 ″  E