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[Marcus H]

Kapit?nleutnant (MN) Kurt K?nig has an entry in "Die Deutsche Kriegsmarine 1939-1945" by Lohmann & Hildebrand as follows:

Born on the 2nd of November 1906 in Klostermannsfeld in Saxony and entered the Reichsmarine in 1925. He was asssigned as the Flottillenfunkmeister on the destroyer Hans Lody from Feb 39 - Nov 40 and in the same appointment on the destroyer Karl Galster from Nov 40 - Jan 41. He attended a course at the Naval Signals School at Murwik from Jan - Feb 41 as was then assigned as an assistant instructor and officers' instructor there for underwater detection and direction finding until Jan 44. Signals officer aboard the light Cruiser Leipzig from Jan 44 - Oct 44 and in November on the staff of the F.d.Z. (Destroyer Leader) as the 4. Asto (4th Admiral's Staff Officer). From December 44 - Feb 45 he was again at the Naval Signals School as an instructor and his final appointment was as a radio expert in Wehrmacht Nachrichten-Regiment West until the war's end

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[Guest Rick Research]

The (MN) corps was raised from career petty officers. K?nig was promoted to Kapit?nleutnant (MN) 1 November 1944. Not a member of the MOHeV after the war-- there appears to have been a lingering social snobbery that these "technical" branches were not "real" officers.