Mineralölkommando

[Snautzer]

Found a chart with this unit on it. What did it do in Italy?

https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/thread...4#post-1999924

[edwest2]

Petroleum Command. I could only find this additional reference: See war diary of Mineralölkommando Estland/Gruppe Arbeit.

[Stig Jarlevik]

You can extract oil from certain rocks such as alun shale/slates

No idea what it looks like in Italy, but my guess is that the more desperate Germany became
for oil the harder they tried....

Cheers
Stig

[Snautzer]

Yes strange it is for this front. But fuel was a great problem. Never encountered this kommando before
How about the commanders name?

[edwest2]

Another reference in German.


Das Kaukasus-Öl – Ziel der Deutschen Wehrmacht im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Bruno W. Koppensteiner & Hermann Häusler


Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, ISSN 1017-8880, Band 140, Wien 2021


A portion of a document appears in the text with the following stamp: Stempel des motorisierten Technischen Bataillons Mineralöl
11 in einem Bericht vom 16. Oktober 1944 sowie Stempel des
motorisierten Technischen Bataillons Mineralöl 33 und des
Kommandeurs der Technischen Truppe Mineralöl (beide von
Berichten vom August 1943). Unterschrift von Major Hans L AAD als
Kommandeur der Technischen Truppen Mineralöl vom April 1944.

[musec04]

Snautzer,

Take a look at this link. Should be helpful on the nature of the unit. Take a look at P.78 for the nature of the outfit.

https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/BerichteG..._0007-0104.pdf

Regards,

Clint

[Nick Beale]

A search for the word at the Bundesarchiv site gives 28 hits in the “military” category but only two of those are digitised.

[Snautzer]

Thanks Clint.

[Buckeye30]

As I read it.
"Mineral oil Command in Italy (Hptm. v. Hammer). Location of refineries, 2 in Trieste, one each in (Fiume), Marghera bei Mestre, La Spezia. The Livorna refinery dismantled by Dr. Kuppinger. Sept. 1943-May 1944."
Looks like the last attack (by Fifteenth AF) was July 13 1944 (Trieste) though there were still oil targets in Germany, Austria, Rumania, Poland, Hungary, Czech., Albania and Yugoslavia.


Nick

[sveahk]

Interesting stuff here: "Estimated Petroleum Refinery Output in Axis Europe during 1943"
https://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%...20Item%207.pdf


Halfway down you'll find "Italian Refineries"...

Hans K