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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Expand list Flag officers of the Kriegsmarine were the leadership of the German Navy (known then as the "Kriegsmarine") from 1935 to 1945. Most flag officers had also served as officers of the Reichsmarine, as well as the Imperial German Navy during World War I. German naval flag officers were divided into five Admiralty ranks while a senior captain rank, known as Kommodore also existed. The Kriegsmarine flag officers were responsible for holding the senior most naval positions within the organization of the Kriegsmarine.
Grand admirals
| Rank | Name | Born | Naval service | Major positions | Post war fate | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Großadmiral |
Файл:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1976-127-06A, Karl Dönitz - crop.jpg Karl Dönitz |
16 Sep 1891 (Grünau) |
1910 - 1945 (35 years) |
* Supreme Commander of the German Armed Forces (1945)[N 1] * Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy (1943-1945) * Commander of Submarines (1939-1943) * Leader of Submarines (1936-1939) |
Sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Nuremberg trials. Released in October 1956. |
24 Dec 1980 (Aumühle) Aged 89 |
| Файл:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1980-128-63, Erich Raeder.jpg Erich Raeder |
24 Apr 1876 (Wandsbek) |
1894 - 1943 (49 years) |
* Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy (1935-1943)[N 2] | Sentenced to life imprisonment at the Nuremberg trials. Released 1955 and died five years later |
6 Nov 1960 (Kiel) Aged 84 |
General admirals
| Rank | Name | Born | Naval service | Major positions | Post war fate | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Generaladmiral |
Файл:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-09531, Konteradmiral zur See Albrecht.jpg Conrad Albrecht |
7 Oct 1880 (Bremen) |
1899 - 1939 (40 years) |
* Commander, Navy Group East (1938-1939) * Baltic Sea Regional Commander (1935-1938) |
Retired shortly after the beginning of World War II Was not investigated by the allied occupation forces after the war. |
18 Aug 1969 (Hamburg) Aged 88 |
| Файл:GenAdmiralBoehm.jpg Hermann Boehm |
18 Jan 1884 (Rybnik) |
1903 - 1945 (42 years) |
* Inspector of Naval education (1944-1945) * Commander, Norwegian Naval Area (1940-1943) * Fleet commander of the German Navy (1938-1939) * Commander, Naval Region North Sea (1937-1938) * Commander German naval forces, Spanish Civil War (1936-1937) * Commander of Surface Craft (1935-1937)[N 3] |
Testified in defense of Erich Raeder at the Nuremberg trials | 11 Apr 1972 (Kiel) Aged 88 | |
| Файл:Rolf Carls.jpg Rolf Carls |
29 May 1885 (Rostock) |
1903 - 1943 (40 years) |
* Commander, Navy Group North (1940-1943) * Commander Navy Group East (1939-1940) * Commander, Naval Region Baltic Sea (1938-1939) * Fleet commander of the German Navy (1936-1938) * Commander German naval forces, Spanish Civil War (1936-1937) * Commander of Liners (1935-1936)[N 4] |
Contender for the position of Navy Commander-in-Chief. After the post went to Karl Dönitz, retired from the Navy in May 1943. Killed in an allied air raid in 1945 |
24 Apr 1945 (Bad Oldesloe) Aged 59 | |
| Hans-Georg von Friedeburg | 15 Jul 1895 (Strasbourg) |
1914 - 1945 (31 years) |
* Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy (1945) * Commander of Submarines (1943-1945) * Deputy commander of submarines (1941-1943) |
Surrendered German forces to the western allies in May 1945. Afterwards committed suicide. |
23 May 1945 (Flensburg) Aged 49 | |
| Файл:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-L17874, Kummetz (crop).jpg Oskar Kummetz |
21 Jul 1891 (Illowo) |
1910 - 1945 (35 years) |
* Baltic Sea Regional Commander (1944-1945) * Commander of Surface Forces (1944) * Commander of Cruisers (1942-1943) * Inspector of Torpedoes (1939-1942) * Staff officer, Navy Fleet & Baltic Sea commands (1937-1939) * Leader of Torpedo-boats (1935-1937) |
Held as a prisoner of war until November 30, 1946 | 17 Dec 1980 (Neustadt) Aged 89 | |
| Файл:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2008-0812-500, Wilhelm Marschall.jpg Wilhelm Marschall |
30 Sep 1886 (Augsburg) |
1906 - 1945 (39 years) |
* Commander, Navy Group West (1943) * Commanding Admiral of France (1942) * Commander, Navy Group South (1941-1942) * Inspector of Naval education (1940-1941) * Fleet commander of the German Navy (1939-1940) * Commander of Battleships (1938-1939) * Commander German naval forces, Spanish Civil War (1937-1938) |
Placed on the inactive officer list in 1943 Recalled twice for special duty (1944-1945) Held as a prisoner of war (1945-1947) |
20 Mar 1976 (Mölln) Aged 89 | |
Alfred Saalwächter |
10 Jan 1883 (Neusalz) |
1901 - 1942 (41 years) |
* Commander, Navy Group West (1939-1942) * Commander, Naval Region North Sea (1938-1939) |
Captured by the Red Army in June 1945 Executed by firing squad after a show trial Exonerated in the late 1990s by a Russian court |
6 Dec 1945 (Moscow) Aged 62 | |
| Файл:Otto Schniewind.jpg Otto Schniewind |
14 Dec 1887 (Saarlouis) |
1907 - 1944 (37 years) |
* Commander, Navy Group North (1943-1944) * Fleet commander of the German Navy (1941-1944) * Chief of Staff, Navy War Office (1938-1941) |
Placed on inactive list in July 1944 Acquitted of war crimes at the High Command Trial Served on Naval Historical Team (1949-1952) |
26 Mar 1964 (Linz am Rhein) Aged 76 | |
Otto Schultze |
11 May 1884 (Oldenburg) |
1900 - 1937 1939 - 1942 (40 years) |
* Commanding Admiral of France (1941-1942) * Commander Naval Region North Sea (1939) * Commander, Naval Station North Sea (1935-1937) |
Retired from the Kriegsmarine in 1937 Recalled for three months in 1939 and then again in 1941 Final retirement on 31 August 1942 |
22 Jan 1966 (Hamburg) Aged 81 | |
| Файл:Walter Warzecha on the deck of a training ship (cropped).jpg Walter Warzecha |
23 May 1891 (Schwiebus) |
1909 - 1945 (36 years) |
* Commander-in-Chief of the Germany Navy (1945) * Chief of the Navy War Office (1944-1945) * Chief of the Navy General Headquarters (1939-1944) |
Served as Commander-in-Chief of the Navy for one month (May - June 1945) Released as a prisoner-of-war in 1947 |
3 Aug 1956 (Hamburg) Aged 65 | |
| Файл:Germany Soviet delegation, Karl Witzell (cropped).jpg Karl Witzell |
18 Oct 1884 (Hiersfeld) |
1902 - 1942 (40 years) |
* Chief of Naval Armaments (1939-1942) | Retired from active service in 1942 Soviet prisoner-of-war for ten years, released in 1955 |
31 May 1976 (Berlin) Aged 91 |
Admirals
| Rank | Name | Born | Naval service | Major positions | Post war fate | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Admiral |
Файл:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1979-013-43, Wilhelm Canaris.jpg Wilhelm Canaris |
1 Jan 1887 (Aplerbeck) |
1905 - 1944 (39 years) |
* Chief of Military Intelligence (1935-1944) | Implicated in the 20 July Plot and imprisoned by the Gestapo executed by the SS in 1945 |
9 Apr 1945 (Flossenbürg) Aged 58 |
| Файл:Otto-ciliax.jpg Otto Ciliax |
30 Oct 1891 (Neudietendorf) |
1910 - 1945 (35 years) |
* Commander, Naval Forces Norway (1943-1945) * Commander of Battleships (1941-1943) * Chief of Staff, Navy Group West (1939-1941) * Commanding Officer, Scharnhorst (1939) |
Father of Flottillenadmiral Otto Hermann Ciliax | 12 Dec 1964 (Travemünde) Aged 73 | |
| Файл:Bundesarchiv Bild 101II-MW-0434-05A, Günter Lütjens.jpg Günther Lütjens |
25 May 1889 (Wiesbaden) |
1907 - 1941 (34 years) |
* Fleet commander of the German Navy (1940-1941)[N 5] * Battleship force commander, Operation Weserübung (1940) * Commander of Surface Craft (1939-1940) * Leader of Torpedo Boats (1937-1939) |
Killed in action during on board the battleship Bismarck in 1941. | 27 May 1941 (Atlantic Ocean) Aged 52 |
Vice admirals
| Rank | Name | Born | Naval service | Major positions | Post war fate | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vizeadmiral |
Файл:Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière.jpg Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière |
18 Mar 1886 (Posen) |
1903 - 1932 1939 - 1941 (31 years) |
* Naval Commander of the Netherlands (1940-1941) | Transferred to command Navy Group South Killed en route in a plane crash |
24 Feb 1941 (Le Bourget) Aged 54 |
| Файл:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-L17874, Heye (crop).jpg Hellmuth Heye |
9 Aug 1895 (Beckingen) |
1914 - 1945 (31 years) |
* Chief of Naval Special Operations (1944-1945) | Released after one year of captivity as a prisoner-of-war Elected to the Bundestag of West Germany (1953-1961) |
10 Nov 1970 (Mittelheim) Aged 75 | |
Wilhelm Meendsen-Bohlken |
25 Jun 1897 (Brake) |
1915 - 1945 (30 years) |
* Fleet commander of the German Navy (1944-1945) * Commander, Italian Naval Region (1943-1944) |
Arrested at the war's end as a member of the Navy High Command Later released without charge |
20 Aug 1985 (Cologne) Aged 88 | |
| Файл:SiemensVADMKriegsM.jpg Leopold Siemens |
17 May 1889 (Berlin) |
1910 - 1945 (35 years) |
* Staff Officer, Naval Region Baltic Sea (1944-1945) * Commander, Norwegian coastal region (1943-1944) * Deputy fleet commander, German Navy (1940-1941) |
Placed on inactive duty January 1945 with no further assignments before the end of World War II |
7 Dec 1979 (Cologne) Aged 90 |
Rear admirals
| Rank | Name | Born | Naval service | Major positions | Post war fate | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Konteradmiral |
Файл:Bundesarchiv Bild 134-C1959, Erich Bey.jpg Erich Bey |
23 Mar 1898 (Hamburg) |
1916 - 1943 (27 years) |
* Commander of Cruisers (1943) * Commander of Destroyers (1940-1943) |
Led a battleship-destroyer task force to attack a British convoy on Christmas Day 1943. Killed in the subsequent engagement with the Royal Navy |
26 Dec 1943 (North Cape, Norway) Aged 45 |
| Файл:BohmerADMKM.jpg Kurt Böhmer |
31 Dec 1892 (Magdeburg) |
1914 - 1944 (30 years) |
* Commander, 9th Naval Security Division (1942-1944) * Leader of Minesweepers "North" (1941-1942) * Leader of Special Craft "West" (1940-1941) |
Killed by Latvian partisans while hunting | 1 Oct 1944 (Ventspils) Aged 51 | |
| Robert Eyssen | 2 Apr 1892 (Frankfurt) |
1912 - 1945 (33 years) |
* Chief of Vienna Military District III (1944-1945) | 31 Mar 1960 (Baden-Baden) Aged 67 | ||
| Werner Fürbringer | 2 Oct 1888 (Braunschweig) |
1907 - 1920 1927 - 1943 (29 years) |
* Tactical officer, Office of Submarines (1939-1945) | Obtained flag rank towards the end of World War II. | 8 Feb 1982 (Braunschweig) Aged 93 | |
| Файл:RearAdmiralGodt.jpg Eberhard Godt |
15 Aug 1900 (Lübeck) |
1918 - 1945 (27 years) |
* Chief of Operations of Submarines (1939-1945) | Advisor to the Naval Historical Team regarding U-boat operations during World War II |
13 Sep 1995 (Lübeck) Aged 95 | |
Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer |
24 Mar 1900 (Frankfurt) |
1917 - 1945 (28 years) |
* Naval adjutant to Adolf Hitler (1943-1945)[N 6] | Held as a prisoner of war from 1945 to 1947 | 4 Mar 1981 (Munich) Aged 80 | |
| Gerhard Wagner | 23 Nov 1898 (Schwerin) |
1916 - 1945 (29 years) |
* Operations officer, Naval war command (1942-1945) | Accompanied Admiral von Friedeburg for the surrender of German forces to Bernard Montgomery. Later served as a rear admiral in the West German Navy |
26 Jun 1987 (Altenkirchen) Aged 88 |
See also
References
Bibliography
- Lohmann W. & Hildebrand H., Die Deutsche Kriegsmarine, Verlag Hans-Henning Podzun, Bad Nauheim (1956)
- Goerlitz, Walter. History of the German General Staff, 1657–1945. Boulder and London: Westview Press (1985)
Notes
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