by Gareth Collins

Formed on 01 March 1941 and was employed, almost exclusively, in the North Sea & English Channel (in 1942 it was employed for a short time at Norway). From early summer 1944 the Flotilla was assigned to Finnenbusen then after the Allied invasion of France it was employed in the English Channel & Den Hooften until the wars end.

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Korvettenkapitän Albrecht Obermaier (01 Mar 1941-00 Jul 1944)
Kapitänleutnant Jens Matzen (00 Jul 1944-08 May 1945)

Sources used

Research by Gareth Collins
Erich Gröner - Die Schiffe der deutschen Kriegsmarine und ihr Verbleib 1939-1945, J.F. Lehmanns Verlag, München (1976)
Hans H. Hildebrand - Die organisatorische Entwicklung der Marine nebst Stellenbesetzung 1848 bis 1945, Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück(2000)
Hans H. Hildebrand & Ernest Henriot – Deutschlands Admirale 1849-1945, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück (1989)
Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr & Hans-Otto Steinmetz – Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg (1980)
Walter Lohmann & Hans H. Hildebrand – Die Deutsche Kriegsmarine, Verlag Hans-Henning Podzun, Bad Nauheim (1956)

Reference material on this unit

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