On 25 August 2025 at 10 a.m., the frigate "Sachsen-Anhalt" will set sail for the mandated foreign deployment UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) off the Lebanese coast. The crew, under the command of frigate captain Daniel Läzer, will carry out maritime surveillance and training of Lebanese naval forces off the Lebanese coast until the end of January next year.
Frigate Hamburg has a new commander On Thursday, 20 February 2025, the commander of the 2nd Frigate Squadron, Frigate Captain Jan Hackstein, handed over command of the frigate "Hamburg" from Frigate Captain Andreas Schmidt to the new commander, Frigate Captain Alexander Timpf. Frigate Captain Schmidt will take up his new post at the Deputy Supreme Allied Command in a few...
Operational Flotilla 2 receives new commander. On Friday, 29 November 2024 at 10 a.m., the Commander of Operational Forces and Head of Operations at Naval Command, Rear Admiral Stephan Haisch, once again made a change of command in his area. Flotilla Admiral Axel Schulz has handed over command of Operational Flotilla 2 to Captain Sven Beck...
Today, the commander of Operational Flotilla 2, Flotilla Admiral Axel Schulz, handed over command of the Trossgeschwader from Frigate Captain Thorsten Geldmacher to the squadron's new commander, Captain Andreas Schmekel. The handover ceremony took place on the task force supply ship "Berlin" at the Heppenser Groden naval base in Wilhelmshaven. For five years, the outgoing commander,...
Frigate "Hessen" as German maritime contribution The German Navy is participating in the NATO activity "Brilliant Vanguard" with the air defence frigate "Hessen" (F 221). It is a response to repeated violations by Russian-made Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in the airspace of NATO countries in the Baltic Sea. The planning of "Brilliant Vanguard" was initiated by the...
Marineforum had already reported that the German Armed Forces Procurement Office has purchased another used ocean-going tug for the German Navy. The tug will operate under the name "Borkum" and will officially enter service for the German Navy on 1 October 2024. In the last few days, the tugboat, which had previously operated under the...
In a multipolar, rapidly changing world, the threats to our navy are also constantly changing. War-ready structures for the ships of Flotilla 2 are therefore essential. In a world characterised by constant change and increasing complexity, maritime armed forces are faced with the challenge of continuously adapting their structures in order to...
Marineforum conducted an interview with Flotilla Admiral Axel Schulz, Commander of Flotilla 2, also CTG 500.01 and thus Commander of the German Navy's Indo-Pacific task force. The Navy's IPD24, Pacific Waves 24, has completed its first third. With the start of RIMPAC, the project is entering another, operationally more demanding phase. How...
The frigate "Hamburg" left Wilhelmshaven this morning to join Operation EUNAVFOR Aspides in the Red Sea. Rear Admiral Stephan Haisch, Commander of the Task Forces and Head of the Operations Department, bid farewell to the frigate "Hamburg" today. The ship is travelling to the Mediterranean to the Greek island of Crete. There, the ship and crew will prepare themselves with a...
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