Kriegsmarine Occupations and Unit Organization

[geahanse]

I am looking for information on all the Kriegsmarine occupational specialties including ones that don't involve being on a ship and units/organization for those who weren't on a ship or out to sea. For example, if someone had an administrative, supply, communication, medical, etc position, what type of unit and job would that be? I'm looking for a list perhaps, or something that explains all the jobs in the Kriegsmarine and how they're organized. Thanks

[geahanse]

Can anyone help me with this please? Or at least guide me to where I can find information on this?

[hucks216]

I think that is a very complex question to answer and I'm not even sure such a list is readily available.
As for what units would they serve in, it all depends - someone involved in communications for instance might be involved in a shore based artillery unit or a sea going destroyer or at a Headquarters. The same could be said pretty much for all the various trades. And because of the unit they could have more than one job - a mechanic on a U-Boat for instance might work in an engine room when he is on-duty but when he is off-duty he might be required to man one of the guns in times of action.

[Alanmccoubrey]

Have you tried to link the occupational specialities with the "specialist" badges that were authorised for the uniforms ?

[hucks216]

As with the previous thread, your best option might well be to go to this site http://www.wwiidaybyday.com , go to the Uniform-Kriegsmarine section and go through each section within - especially the 2nd, 3rd & 4th links - to compile a listing of trades and admin officials (Beamte).

[geahanse]

Hucks, thank you so much. You've been a lot of help. The wwiidaybyday.org helped a lot for the different occupational specialties. The only problem I had, was understanding some of them, even after I use a Web translator. Like the trade badges that are blue with red stitching, most of those don't translate but that's ok. I wish I knew german! As for the units, i found what I was looking for. If you're interested it is found at lexicon-der-wehrmacht.de
click kriegsmarine, then you'll see units and formations with everything I was talking about, I had to use a translator here but it all translated pretty well