Light Cruiser Königsberg

Kriegsmarine KMS light cruiser Königsberg

Aircraft facilities and on-board accommodation:

Capacity: The ship can take 2 aircraft on board.

Accommodation: 1. Airplane on the catapult. The 2nd board aircraft can be dismantled and carried below deck.

Centrifugal device: 1x compressed air operated DWK (type FL 22) catapult of 14 m length, 360 ° swiveling (starting area is 70 ° to 100 ° and 255 ° to 285 °),amidships, between the chimneys on a 3.50 m high special structure, installation in Summer 1935.

Takeover facility: 1x lattice crane, port side next to the rear chimney.

 

Operations in Spain (1936 to 1937),
post war training ship used for torpedo schooling,
wartime mine operations in the North Sea (10.39 - 11.39),
'Weserübung' invasion of Denmark and Norway (09. - 10.04.40)

Operations in Spain (1936 to 1937), training ship of the torpedo school, as far as can be proven, mine operations in the North Sea (10.39 - 11.39), company 'WESERÜBUNG' (09. - 10.04.40):
Code:	Aircraft type:	WNr:	Period:	Remarks:
60B81	He 60	-	November 25, 1936 -January 17, 1937	Spain use
60Y95	He 60	-	09/12/1937	Damaged in crash landing at sea.
60I95	He 60	-	1938/39	Training ship of the torpedo school
60F95	He 60	-	1938/39	ex. Identifier: D-IPEN
6W?N	He 60	-	09/01/1939- 11/20/1939	Used as an aircraft on board during mining operations in the North Sea.
6WUN	He 60	-	03/16/1940-03/20/1940	On-board aircraft when moving from Kiel to Wilhelmshaven.
T3CH	Ar. 196 A2	1960043	03/21 /1940 - 04/10/1940	Total loss, ship capsized as a result of a bomb hit in Bergen..

 

Luftwaffe crews aboard Königsberg

Position:	Rank/Name:	On board:	From board:	Remarks:
1. Air officer / observer	Obltn. (M) large	09/01/1939	10/31/1939	Start to Kiel-Holtenau.
Pilot	Ltn. (M) Ludwig Randerrath	09/01/1939	10/31/1939	Start to Kiel-Holtenau.
1. Air officer / observer	Obltn. (M) Siegfried Mlihling	11.01.1939 03.16.1940	11/20/1939 04/10/1940	Start to Kiel-Holtenau. Until April 21st with the landing troops, then to Wilhelmshaven.
Pilot	Uffz. Marek	11/01/1939	11/20/1939	Start to Kiel-Holtenau.
Pilot	Uffz. Josef Kempfle	March 16, 1940	04/10/1940	Until 04/16 with the landing forces, wounded in the battle at Flotoy sea airport.
Embarked technical maintenance personnel
I. Board attendant	Hpt.Gefr. from Bardeleben	March 16, 1940	04/10/1940	Until April 21st with the landing troops, then to Wilhelmshaven.
II. Board attendant	Frozen Flick	March 16, 1940	04/10/1940	Until April 21st with the landing troops, then to Wilhelmshaven.
Master-at-Arms	Wardetzki	March 16, 1940	04/10/1940	Until April 21st with the landing troops, then to Wilhelmshaven.
Funkwart	Frozen Flaht	March 16, 1940	04/10/1940	Until April 21st with the landing troops, then to Wilhelmshaven.
04/10/1940 - Ship capsized as a result of a bomb hit in Bergen.