WWII German sailing/training ship?

[Lambendsor (aka IGS)]

I wonder if anyone can figure out the time and circumstance of these snapshots. They come from a Flensburg, Germany, family - the father (born 1895) was a ships carpenter, the son (born 1923) was in the Seenotdienst (sea rescue service) and the Flak Artillerie of the Luftwaffe during WWII. The uniform of the man in the detail appears military, so I thought it might be on board one of the Kriegsmarine sail training ships in the late 1930s or early 1940s...but that's an uninformed guess.

[Regorian]

The last pic. is your Luftwaffe man. NCO, and short jacket was called a fliegerbluse.

[Lambendsor (aka IGS)]

Aha - thank you. And do you (or anyone else) have an idea what would place them on a sailing ship? Training exercises? And would they have carried on such things after the war began?

[stevej60]

It's a fairly large ship but not uncommon in the Kriegsmarine and they saw action during WW2