Z 20 Karl Galster
 Drawing by Karl Galster , as of 1945
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
.svg){kind=small}
.svg){kind=small}
Z 20 Karl Galster (1939–1956) was a destroyer of the destroyer type 1936 of the German Navy .
The Karl Galster survived the Second World War as the only boat in its class still in existence after the Weser Exercise Company in 1940 . The destroyer ended up in the Soviet Union as spoils of war and was only scrapped after 1960.
history
Z 20 Karl Galster was laid on September 14, 1937 at DeSchiMAG -Werft AG "Weser" in Bremen. The launch took place on June 15, 1938, the destroyer could be put into service on March 21, 1939. The boat was named after Kapitänleutnant Karl Galster , son of Vice Admiral Karl Galster (1851-1931), who died in the First World War on March 25 1916 had sunk with his torpedo boat S 22 after a mine hit in the North Sea.
Association membership
After commissioning, the Karl Galster was assigned to the 4th Destroyer Division. On December 1, 1939, the Karl Galster was transferred to the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla.
Second World War
With the 5th Z division under FKpt. Hans Hartmann was involved with the Karl Galster with the boats Diether von Roeder , Hermann Künne and Hans Lüdemann in the laying of the Westwall mine barriers in the North Sea.
From 28 to 30 September, led Karl Galster along with the destroyers Wilhelm Heidkamp , Bernd von Arnim , Erich Giese , Diether von Roeder , Hermann Künne and Hans Lüdemann trade war in the Skagerrak , with 58 merchant ships searched and nine with a prize crew to Kiel sent were.
From October 17 to 18, 1939, the Karl Galster took part in a mining company of the leader of the torpedo boats (FdT), KAdm. Lütjens , against the mouth of the Humber . The destroyers Wilhelm Heidkamp , Hermann Künne , Diether von Roeder , Friedrich Eckoldt and Hans Lüdemann were there . On November 12th and 13th, the Karl Galster carried out a mining operation against the Thames estuary with the destroyers Hans Lüdemann , Wilhelm Heidkamp and Hermann Künne .
Z 20 evacuated refugees across the Baltic Sea towards the end of the war.
Commanders
- March 20, 1939: Corvette Captain. Theodor Freiherr von Mauchenheim (called v. Bechtolsheim)
- August 4, 1942: FKpt. Fro Harmsen
- January 5 - May 10, 1945: FKpt. Kuno Schmid
post war period
After the surrender , the boat was awarded to the Soviet Union as spoils of war. In the first week of February 1946 it went, together with the destroyer Z 14 Friedrich Ihn , to the handover to Libau , where it was put into service as Protschny ( Прочный ). The boat was not taken out of service until around 1956.
Remarks
- ↑ The Kriegsmarine referred to all vehicles up to and including destroyer size as boats, regardless of the fact that they were mostly ships. See: boat / ship
literature
- Wolfgang Harnack: Destroyers under the German flag: 1934 to 1945. 3rd, revised edition, Koehler, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-7822-0698-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Harnack: Destroyers under the German flag: 1934 to 1945. 3rd, revised edition, Koehler, Hamburg 1997, p. 67.
- ↑ Wolfgang Harnack: Destroyers under the German flag: 1934 to 1945. 3rd, revised edition, Koehler, Hamburg 1997, p. 54.
- Website: Chronicle of Naval Warfare
- ↑ a b Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Seekrieg 1939, August , viewed on August 8, 2008
- ↑ Jürgen Rohwer, Gerhard Hümmelchen: Seekrieg 1939, November , accessed on August 8, 2008
Destroyer 1936: Z 17 Diether von Roeder | Z 18 Hans Lüdemann | Z 19 Hermann Künne | Z 20 Karl Galster | Z 21 Wilhelm Heidkamp | Z 22 Anton Schmitt
Destroyer 1936 A: Z 23 | Z 24 | Z 25 | Z 26 | Z 27 | Z 28 | Z 29 | Z 30
Destroyer 1936 A (Mob): Z 31 | Z 32 | Z 33 | Z 34 | Z 37 | Z 38 | Z 39