MAA 508 & 509 positions Denmark

[Maurice Laarman]

Gents, I hope I may ask your help with a document lot I just purchased. It's from a painter, who served with several MAA unit in Denmark as NCO, notably ;

8./MAA508 in Spodsbjerg with four 127mm guns
5./MAA509 in Faarup Klit (Kettrup Bjerge) with four 150mm guns = is this Lokken?
11./MAA509 in Faarup Klit (Taarup Hede) = is this Lokken?

The Fuhrungsbuch is quite interesting, because it shows the judgement of his superiors about him. In this case, he was an average soldier, but a good comrade.
However, I can't find a lot of information on the net about the current state of these batteries. Could you help me out? Looking forward to see some photos of his stations.

Thanks in advance,

Maurice

[TH]

8./M.A.A. 508 was located near Hundested.
Haven't visited it myself, but probably not much to see there.
No large bunkers anyway.

5./M.A.A. 509 was Sperrbatterie Lökken Süd, south of Løkken.
Lots of bunkers still there, but the site is a summer house area now.

11./M.A.A. 509 manned a 12 cm battery, present at the same location until the 15 cm guns of 5./M.A.A. 509 were operational.
Later it manned two 7.5 cm Schweigegeschütze in support of 5./M.A.A. 509.
The gun emplacements should still exist.

[kstdk]

Hello

Some pictures from 8./MAA 508 Spodsbjerg. They are taken shortly after the liberation in may or june 1945.

Some are from newspaper clipping and others are from Danish National Archive - you can see the different quality of the photos.

First a couple of the site today and then, and as TH says - there is nothing left today.

Regards
Kurt
kstdk

[kstdk]

Hello

Next som overall pictures of the site and positions.

Regards
Kurt
kstdk

[kstdk]

Hello

Last of some of the guns there.

37 mm. Flak and the large 12,7 cm S.K. C/34.

The site was manned in the autumn of 1944.

Regards
Kurt
kstdk

[kstdk]

Hello

I will be back with some pictures from 5./MAA509 at Fårup Klit.

Maybe some others also can contribute with something?

Regards
Kurt
kstdk

[Maurice Laarman]

Thanks Kurt and TH, really nice to see! I will post some more scans of the documents the coming days. Really nice to see photos!

Maurice

[Maurice Laarman]

As promised some photos, the human touch behind the concrete. The lot I bought consists of Soldbuch, some photos, Führungsbuch and post war documents. They are named to Jozef Stelzig, who was born in 1920 in Maria-Ratschnitz and served from 1940 till 1945 in mainly Marine Artillerie units. Most of the time he spent in Denmark with MAA 508 and 509. he survived the war.

[jopaerya]

Thanks for sharing Maurice

[Jens Andersen]

Hello Maurice,

Thank you for sharing.

However, I am afraid that your identification of the battery is not completely correct.

In 1942, 8./M.A.A. 508 was not the battery Spodsbjerg, which was not emplaced until the autumn of 1944.

The battery with that number in 1942 was situated at Gedser on the southern tip of the island of Falster. It was a 12 cm battery armed with 4 pcs. Danish guns.

In october 1942, it was moved to Faarupklit (Lökken-Süd) on the west coast of Jutland and became 12./M.A.A. 509. In connection with a reorganisation in 1944 it got a new number: 5./509.

Best regards
Jens

[Jens Andersen]

Pictures of the guns at Faarupklit in July 1943 can be seen in the link below:
https://www.walter-frentz-collection.de ... mark-1943/

Third row, picture 1 and 2.

Jens

[kstdk]

Hello

Ok, as i also stated in my post about Spodsbjerg it was not manned until autumn 1944.

Here then - 5./MAA509 in Faarup Klit with four 150mm guns.

The two colored photos from the link provided by Jens - copyright Walther Frenz.

Other pictures from https://arkiv.dk/ and https://samlinger.natmus.dk/

Regards
Kurt
kstdk

[kstdk]

Hello

5./MAA509 in Faarup Klit with four 150mm guns continued:

Regards
Kurt
kstdk

[Maurice Laarman]

Thanks for the correction jens!
That indeeds matches with the page from the Führungsbuch, which mentions Gedser as place where it was filled in and signed.

Kind regards,

Maurice

[kstdk]

Hello

Not much from Gedser, som pictures from about now (from internet - search "Gedser") and a map from the resistance from 1941 made out of memory and sent to Stockholm Archive in Sweden (Intelligence Service).

Regards
Kurt
kstdk