Surendorf Torpedo Research Institute

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The Torpedoversuchsanstalt Surendorf (TVA), officially: Torpedoversuchsanstalt Eckernförde-Ost , was a branch of the Torpedoversuchsanstalt Eckernförde of the Kriegsmarine in Surendorf (community Schwedeneck ) during World War II . Since 1957, the site has been part of Defense Technical Service 71 .

Blasted bridge segment as a drying and resting place for cormorants

Surendorf Torpedo Research Institute

In the Torpedoversuchsanstalt Surendorf work was carried out on the development of torpedoes . The facility consisted of a drying workshop, several other workshops, a power station, a tank farm, several residential and farm buildings and a testing site. Several thousand people, including slave labor , were employed in the complex . Two barracks with a capacity of 500 and 438 people were built in Surendorf as living quarters.

Dismantling

Remains of the blown bridge of the Surendorf torpedo research facility

After the Second World War, the British military government decided to blow up the buildings of the Surendorf torpedo test facility as part of the dismantling work . When this news broke in June 1948, it sparked a storm of indignation over the plan to create 10,000 (non-military) jobs on the site. Companies such as Siemens (3000 workplaces) and the pectin factory (1500 workplaces) had submitted binding inquiries about the use of the building. The Schleswig-Holstein state parliament interrupted its session after all parliamentary groups had expressed their protest about this destruction and decided to continue the session on the premises of the torpedo testing institute. However, the security guards denied the state parliament access. The state parliament sent a telegram of protest to the British Parliament and Foreign Secretary Bevin . On December 5, 1948, an extraordinary session of the Landtag took place in the Hotel Seegarten in Eckernförde to protest against this dismantling again.

The protests were unsuccessful. The demolition took place on December 7, 1948. At the same time, 20,000 people demonstrated in Kiel and many thousands in Schleswig and Flensburg in silent marches against the destruction.

Debris from the bridge and the buildings are still preserved today.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Kaule: Ostseeküste 1933–1945. The historical travel guide. Links, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-521-8 , p. 16, online .
  2. ↑ Oliver Krauß: Armaments and armament testing in German naval history with special consideration of the Torpedoversuchsanstalt (TVA) , dissertation, Kiel 2006, page 395
  3. ^ Erich Maletzke, Klaus Volquartz: The Schleswig-Holstein Landtag. Ten terms in the house on the fjord. President of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament - Press Office and Public Relations Department, Kiel 1983, pp. 50–53.

Coordinates: 54 ° 28 ′ 47.7 "  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 6.1"  E