Marine-Bataillone


Marine-Bataillon Erdmenger

Formed 18.4.40 in Narvik with 2 companies, from personnel of the sunken destroyers. Saw action defending Narvik. Disbanded 7.40.


Marine-Bataillon von Freytag

Formed 18.4.40 in Narvik with 2 companies, from personnel of the sunken destroyers. Saw action defending Narvik. Disbanded 7.40.


Marine-Bataillon Hossfeld

Formed 2.44 from Stabskompanie Kaukasus, for the defence of Sevastopol. Destroyed 5.44 and disbanded 7.44.


Marine-Bataillon Heller

Formed 8.44 with 7 companies (alarm unit, in France?). No details.


Marine-Bataillon Klemm

Formed 4.44 in Sevastopol from 19. Marine-Kraftfahr-Abteilung, for the defence of Sevastopol. Disbanded 5.44.


Marine-Bataillon Kothe

Formed 18.4.40 in Narvik with 300 men, from personnel of the sunken destroyers. Saw action defending Narvik under Gebirgs-Jäger-Regiment 139. Disbanded 7.40.


Marine-Bataillon Narvik

Formed 8.44 in Gironde-Süd from personnel of the 8. Destroyer-Flotilla "Narvik". Surrendered 4.45, when Festung Gironde surrendered.


Marine-Bataillon Sturmann

Formed when?. By order of 3.11.44 absorbed by the 338. Infanterie-Division, in the Upper Rhein area.


Marine-Bataillon Tirpitz

Formed 8.44 in Festung Gironde from personnel of the 2. Sperrbrecher-Flotilla. Disbanded 4.45.



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