by Gareth Collins

Active at the start of the war and during the Polish campaign was employed in Minesweeping in Danzig Bay. After that campaign it was used on security duties in the North Sea until April 1940. With the start of the campaign in the West the Flotilla was moved to Holland & later employed in the area of Calais-Boulogne. At the end of 1941 the Boats of the Flotilla were dismantled, transported by land on special trucks to Regensburg & moved over the Danube to the Black Sea. Here it was employed in the fighting on the Crimea & Kerch. On 30 August 1944 the Boats were all blown up by their crews at Varna and the crews returned to Germany.

Flottillenchef

Kapitänleutnant Hugo Heydel (00 May 1939-00 Apr 1940)
Kapitänleutnant Hagen Küster (i.V.) (00 Apr 1940-00 Apr 1940)
Kapitänleutnant Hugo Heydel (00 Apr 1940-00 Nov 1940)
Kapitänleutnant Kurt Birr (00 Nov 1940-27 Nov 1940)
Kapitänleutnant Peter Reischauer (00 Jan 1941-00 Aug 1941)
Kapitänleutnant Richard Rossow (00 Aug 1941-00 Oct 1941)
Oberleutnant zur See Kurt Halledt-Holzapfel (m.W.d.G.b.) (00 Oct 1941-00 Nov 1941)
Korvettenkapitän Arnulf Hölzerkopf (00 Nov 1941-00 Apr 1943)
Kapitänleutnant Helmut Klassmann (00 Apr 1943-00 Aug 1944)

Subordinate Units & Vessels

Begleitschiff 'von der Groeben'
R-33
R-34
R-35
R-36
R-37
R-38
R-39
R-40
R-163
R-164
R-165
R-166
R-196
R-197
R-203
R-204
R-205
R-206
R-207
R-208
R-209
R-216
R-248

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

- None known at this time -