Seebatallione

The Seebataillone were Marines of the German Navy, they were infantry units in battalion strength. The Seebataillon served under the Prussian Royal Navy, the Navy of the North German Confederation, the Imperial German Navy and the Federal German Navy.

Prussian Royal Navy, North German Confederation and the German Empire

The first Seebataillon were formed on 13 May 1852. In May 1852 the Royal Prussian Marinierkorpsfrom was established in Stettin. It fulfilled the role of the Marines aboard the warships. The Seebataillon in 1870 had a strength of five companies with 22 officers and 680 non-commissioned officers and men. The battalion headquarters was located in Kiel.

After the founding of the German Empire in 1871 and the conversion to the Imperial Navy was Seebataillon to a sixth company. Am 1. In October 1886 the Seebataillon shared staff and one half of the battalion remained in Kiel, and the second half battalion relocated to Wilhelmshaven.

In March 1889 the two were in separate Half-bataillons consisted of four companies. In December 1897, a third of the 1st Seebataillon und 2. And 2 Kompanie des I.Seebataillons und der 3. I. Seebataillons the company and the 3rd und 4. And 4 Kompanie des II. The companies formed 2nd Seebataillon and the protection of the German lease area Jiaozhou after Tsingtao relocated. The 1889-built inspection of the Marine Corps under the Kiel station chief of the Baltic Marine Station. Das III.

The III. Stammseebataillon - the Association of Personal replacement for use in China, has been trained on Highes Cabinet Order dated 31 May 1905.

The members of the naval staff had the guard commander in the maintenance of order and discipline on board ship.

The officers of the Marine Corps since 1866 came only from the army, whereafter their service period (normally two years) again returned. Most officers were from the army, but some were also from various naval careers.

locations and garrisons

In 1914, there were Seebataillone following:

* I. Seebataillon in Kiel;
* II. Seebataillon in Wilhelmshaven;
* III. Stamm-Seebataillon in Cuxhaven ;
* III. Seebataillon in Tsingtao.

Then came the East Asian Marine-Detachment (OMD) in Beijing and Tientsin, and a company of soldiers of I and II as Seebataillons Marine-Detachment in international occupied Albania.

ervice

Since 1895 Seesoldaten were no longer on board warships. The Seebataillone were now used as an intervention force in the colonies. A company in 1894 was sent to Cameroon, and in 1904, during the uprising of the Herero and Nama, an association in battalion strength to support the protection force of German South-West Africa. 1905/1906 supported a Marine infantry detachment, the imperial protection force in German East Africa. During the intervention in China from 1900 to 1901, were the first and second Seebataillon under reinforced by a pioneer company and a field battery as a "Marine expeditionary corps" was sent to send East Asia.

World War One

In August 1914 formed part of the Seebataillone reservists and the naval infantry brigade under Major General von Wiechmann, the same month the Marine Division was expanded. Another Marine Division was formed in November 1914. Marine Corps Flanders, under Admiral Ludwig von Schroeder (called the "Lion of Flanders"), was formed in November 1914. In the beginning of February 1917, a third Marine Division was added. The strength of this corps was 60-70.000.

The Marine divisions were 1914 in Jiaozhou and Antwerp, 1915 in Ypres, 1916 on the Somme, 1917 in Flanders and the 1918 offensives. In November 1918 the Free volunteer corps "Black hunters" was formed, which was part army since the Imperial Navy Marine Corps had no assets.

The Federal German Navy

In April 1958 a Marine pioneer battalion was raised and was initially was under destroyer command. In October 1958 the newly founded group worn under. Am 1. In January 1965, the resolution of the battalion and the reshuffle in separate beach -Kompanien champion. The Amphibious Group of the Federal Marine was dissolved in 1993.

ee also

* Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck

References

*"Kolonialpolitik und die Marine" - Walter Nuhn, Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-7637-6241-8
*"Colonial and the Marine" - Walter Nuhn, Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-7637-6241-8

External links

* [http://www.marine-infanterie.de/ German Marine Infantry site] - German only
* [http://www.germancolonialuniforms.co.uk/ Seebatallione page at German Colonial Uniforms]
* [http://www.kaiserlichesmarinekorps.be/ kaiserlichesmarinekorps]