by Gareth Collins

Formed in October 1939 and from the summer of 1940 to spring 1941 was employed in the North Sea for Channel Pass escort duty and offensive & defensive mine operations. In 1941 it was transferred to the Baltic Sea for security operations but by winter the same year it was transferred back to the Western area for mine operations. In the summer of 1942 it was temporarily transferred to northern waters for the protection of heavy naval forces. From the summer of 1943 the Flottille was attached to the Naval School for a year for training purposes, detached briefly in the Autumn of the same year to the disarmament of the Danish Navy. From the summer of 1944 to the wars end it was assigned to the Baltic Sea for escort & security duties, firstly in Finnenbusen, then Eastern & central Baltic.

Chef

Kapitänleutnant Wolfgang Erhardt (m.W.d.G.b.) (00 Oct 1939-00 Nov 1939)
Korvettenkapitän Walter Riede (00 Nov 1939-00 Apr 1941)
Korvettenkapitän Heinrich Erdmann (00 Apr 1941-00 May 1943)
Korvettenkapitän Karl Kassbaum (00 May 1943-00 Aug 1944)
Korvettenkapitän Friedrich-Karl Paul (00 Aug 1944-08 May 1945)

Flottillen-Ingenieur
Korvettenkapitän (Ing.) Hans-Klaus Fingerle (00 Oct 1939-00 Mar 1941)
Kapitänleutnant (Ing.) Paul-Heinz Schubert (00 Mar 1941-00 May 1942)
Korvettenkapitän (Ing.) Friedrich Möller (00 May 1942-00 Jun 1943)
Korvettenkapitän (Ing.) Rolf Boehe (00 Jun 1943-00 Mar 1944)
Korvettenkapitän (Ing.) Hermann Schönekäs (00 Mar 1944-00 Aug 1944)
Kapitänleutnant (Ing.) Dipl.Ing. Heinz Poetsch (00 Aug 1944-08 May 1945)

Ships

T-5
T-6
T-7
T-8
T-11
T-12
T-2
T-3
T-4
T-9
T-10
T-1

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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