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Z3 Max Schultz was a destroyer of the German Navy of the destroyer class 1934 .
The boat was named after Corvette Captain Max Schultz (1874-1917), who fell on January 23, 1917 as flotilla chief during a battle with English cruisers in the English Channel on board his guide boat V 69 . Z3 Max Schultz went down as a result of an erroneous air raid by German aircraft in February 1940 with the entire crew after hitting a sea mine .
history
collision
On August 27, 1939, in the dark east of Bornholm , the Max Schultz rammed the shielded torpedo boat Tiger , which quickly sank. The crew was picked up by the destroyer. The Max Schultz was badly damaged even at the bow and had to be towed by the destroyer Georg Thiele . The boat was towed to Swinoujscie at a speed of four knots . The repairs were carried out at the Stettiner Oderwerke .
Second World War
During the Second World War , the boat was mostly used in the North Sea for laying mines or in a trade war. It came on October 28, 1939 to a turbine explosion in which a seaman was killed. The destroyer had to stay in the shipyard for three months to have the damage repaired. The ship then helped lay another mine barrier off the English coast, on which several merchant ships sank.
Downfall
The destroyer was lost on February 22, 1940 at the Wikinger company on the Dogger Bank when it was supposed to lay mines off the east coast of England with the destroyers Leberecht Maass , Richard Beitzen , Erich Koellner , Theodor Riedel and Friedrich Eckoldt . On the way into the mission area the ships of several German bombers of the type were He 111 of II. Group of kampfgeschwader 26 , attacked several times by mistake in the dark, because the Air Force about the company was not informed and therefore accepted the flight crew, a British destroyer Association to have tracked down. Leberecht Maass was hit by at least one aerial bomb, got into a previously unknown British minefield, ran onto a mine and began to sink. When trying to come to the aid of the crew of the sister boat, the Max Schultz probably also ran into a mine and sank quickly after the explosion. The entire crew of 308 men were killed.
Commanders
- April 8, 1937 to October 24, 1938: Corvette Captain Martin Baltzer
- October 25, 1938 to February 22, 1940: Frigate Captain Claus Trampedach, the Trampedachlager is named after him
literature
- Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: " The German Warships - Biographies " Volume 6.
- Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke: German Destroyers of World War II - Warships of the Kriegsmarine . Seaforth Publishing, 2014, pp. 79 + 80.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Chronik des Maritime War 1939–1945, February 1940. Retrieved on January 24, 2017 .
Destroyer 1934: Z 1 Leberecht Maass | Z 2 Georg Thiele | Z 3 Max Schultz | Z 4 Richard Beitzen
Destroyer 1934A: Z 5 Paul Jacobi | Z 6 Theodor Riedel | Z 7 Hermann Schoemann | Z 8 Bruno Heinemann | Z 9 Wolfgang Zenker | Z 10 Hans Lody | Z 11 Bernd von Arnim | Z 12 Erich Giese | Z 13 Erich Koellner | Z 14 Friedrich Ihn | Z 15 Erich Steinbrinck | Z 16 Friedrich Eckoldt