Questions to a Kriegsmarine Soldier

[ralfanton62]

Can somebody provide some further details to the following?

Have a man who was a soldier in the Kriegsmarine, under his official Position we find that he was Rekrut in 1941. Any later commention to his official position after then were just only numbers as follows:

16.S.St.A. 2g

Ksfl.Pomm.Küst. 7.7
Ers.Komp. 5811
L.Stütz.Linz 4425/ k3b
Aufb.Kdo.Saloniki 4792 / k3b

Can anyone please tell me what those numbered abbreviations tell me about my soldier?

Many thanks


Ralf Anton Schäfer

[Floris]

Hello,


16.S.St.A. 2g:

16. Schiffsstammabteilung
Formed in Gotenhafen in June 1940 from the 6. Schiffstammabteilung. In August 1940 it was moved to Bergen op Zoom & Rosendaal Holland. In March 1945 it was redesignated Marineschützenregiment. The Abteilung was subordinate to the 2. Admiral der Nordsee.

[ralfanton62]

Thanks Floris,

but I need to look behind those numbered abbreviations behind those mentioned units,


2g
7.7
5811
4425/ k3b
4792 / k3b

My first post is probably not realy clear,

[Ian Jewison]

No idea what the numbers refer to....Marinestammrollennummer?

To the abbreviations:

Ksfl.Pomm.Küst. 7.7 - Küstenbefehlshabers pommersche Küste
Ers.Komp. 5811 - Ersatz Kompanie
L.Stütz.Linz 4425/ k3b - ?
Aufb.Kdo.Saloniki 4792 / k3b - Ausbildungs Kommando Saloniki

Can you show what these are written on?

/Ian

[Gerdan]

L.Stütz. Linz - could the abbreviation be related with "Landesschützen ..." (Btl. / Rgt. ? ) Linz

(Donau) ?


Gerdan

[ralfanton62]

Below you can find the Document, this was sended by the WASt just short ago.

Backside of the paper you will find further below.

[Gerdan]

I read " L - Stützp(unkt ?) Linz "

This could mean :

Luftwaffenstützpunkt am Freinberg bei Linz


Gerdan

[Gerdan]

Linz air field:

Linz (Hörsching, Fliegerhorst Vogler) /Oberösterreich/ Map
N481400 E0141115 (WGS84), 978', LOWL, LOXL
Location of airfield: The airfield is located ca. 10 km southwest of Linz.
Usage until 1945: Air base.
Usage during the Cold War: Airport and air base.
Runways: Data for the year 1990: 09/27: 2810 m x 60 m Concrete, 09/27: 660 m x 45 m Grass
Links:

Google Maps http://maps.google.com/maps?q=48+14+...)&ie=UTF8&z=14

Aerial picture http://www.austrianaviationart.org/airports/lowl.jpg

Aerial picture http://www.austrianaviationart.org/airports/lowl1.jpg

Bibliography:
Ries, Karl; Dierich, Wolfgang: "Fliegerhorste und Einsatzhäfen der Luftwaffe" Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1993 - Allied map


Gerdan

[ralfanton62]

And now something really pretty confusing:

The chart says, red entrys are on board of a ship,

black entrys are in land

The Airfield would not fit on a boat...

It seems something different than the Luftwaffenstützpunkt.

It would probably prefer more to Landungsstützpunkt...

so it was named by the official WASt Letter.

Thanks

[Gerdan]

I found an other text from an other soldier in the www dealing with "Landungsstützpunkt Linz" and Greece.

So there should have been a Landungsstützpunkt in Greece with the code name "Linz" ( as the town in Austria).

Here part of the text, dealing with an information on the grandfather of a lady. May be your guy and this soldier have bee partly in the same unit:


"Laut Wast war mein Großvater zwischen dem
18.12.1943-19.04.1944 II Abteilung Ersatzkompanie
20.04.1944-04.05.1944 Landungsstützpunkt Linz
05.05.1944-12.10.1944 Aufbaukommando Saloniki
Man sagte mir, dass dieses Aufbaukommando zur Erprobung neuer Fährprame diente.
Wofür ja auch die II Abteilung Ersatzkompanie spricht, die ja aus der 2. Ausbildungs-Abteilung für Kriegsschiffneubauten entstanden ist."

So we are far away from the Linz airfield!

Gerdan

[ralfanton62]

Gerdan,

Its the same person, we are working together and would try to translate the abbreviations.

Thanks

Ralf