Central Naval Service
The Central Naval Service was a higher command authority of the Federal Navy , which was directly subordinate to the Inspector of the Navy . It was set up in Bonn on August 1, 1957 and dissolved again on March 31, 1959.
General
The intention of the naval leadership was to set up a department for various general tasks of the navy, which should bear the designation naval office . On August 1, 1957, Frigate Captain Zädow was appointed head of a new office called VP Naval Office (VP = advance staff). In May 1958, the agency was renamed the Central Naval Service and the previous sub-department head D Ships of the naval command staff , Captain Eichler, was entrusted with the management. With this organizational proposal, the Navy could not prevail within the Federal Ministry of Defense and dissolved the Central Navy Service on March 31, 1959. The tasks of the former sub-division D were transferred to the new sub-division V, Ships and Weapons, of the naval command staff, while the remaining tasks were transferred to the command of the naval base .
tasks
The new agency should initially take on the tasks of STAN , nautical and service regulations of the Navy. In January 1958, she was also entrusted with the tasks that had previously been performed in sub-division D of the Naval Staff. These were to include responsibility for ships , machinery, artillery and over - water guns, torpedo - missile - and anti-submarine weapons , mines and mine countermeasures .