reference topic Kriegsmarine Admirals ID thread and photo Database

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19 minutes ago, GreyC said:

Hi,

I got this photo recently. It is a private photo an d has a release stamp on the back of the 19. Vorpostenflottile or its successor the 5th Sicherungsflottille (release stamp only gives fiedpost-number). Both units were active in Denmark from 1940 on.

Can anybody identify the Admiral with Ritterkreuz talking to members of the flottille?

Thank you very much!

GreyC

It's Hubert Schmundt.

[GreyC]

Great,

thank you! So photo was taken probably between March 1943 to the end of February 1944.

GreyC

 

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German and Italian officers in Bordeaux, France, 1942.
1: Contrammiraglio Romolo Polacchini, Commander of BETASOM (18 September 1941-29 December 1942)
2: Generalmajor Fritz Schönfelder, Army Pioneer Leader of the 1st Army (31 March 1941-14 March 1943)
3: Konteradmiral z.V. Heinz-Eduard Menche, Chief of the Kriegsmarine Service Office Bordeaux (27 January 1941-30 April 1943)

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Konteradmiral Rolf Carls (#3), Commander of Battleships (29 September 1934-30 September 1936), receiving the Italian admiral Ildebrando Goiran (#2) on board the Panzerschiff „Deutschland“ in Barcelona, Spain, 1936.
Standing in the background (#1) is Kapitän zur See Paul Fanger, Commandant of the Panzerschiff „Deutschland“ (30 September 1935-02 September 1937).

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Konteradmiral Rolf Carls (3rd from the left), Commander of Battleships (29 September 1934-30 September 1936), receiving a French naval officer (1st from the left) on board the Panzerschiff „Deutschland“ in Barcelona, Spain, 1936.
Standing between them in the background is Kapitän zur See Paul Fanger, Commandant of the Panzerschiff „Deutschland“ (30 September 1935-02 September 1937).

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Portrait of Vizeadmiral z.V. Eugen Lindau, Naval Commander North France (26 May 1940-19 February 1941), dated 01 January 1941.

Edited October 2 by Kriegsmarine Admiral

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23 minutes ago, Kriegsmarine Admiral said:

Portrait of Vizeadmiral z.V. Eugen Lindau, Naval Commander North France (26 May 1940-19 February 1941), dated 01 January 1941.

 

Great photo Karlo.

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Konteradmiral Erich Bey, Leader of Destroyers (10 May 1940-26 December 1943), inspecting the crew of the Destroyer „ZG 3 Hermes“, May 1943.
Standing behind Bey is Fregattenkapitän Curt Rechel, Commandant of the Destroyer „ZG 3 Hermes“ (25 March 1943-07 May 1943). For the sinking of the British submarine „HMS Splendid“ (21 April 1943) he was personally awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Military Valor by King Victor Emmanuel III on 27 April 1943, and on 8 May 1943 he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

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Generaladmiral Hermann Boehm (middle), Commanding Admiral Norway (10 April 1940-31 January 1943), inspecting the Naval Artillery Battery „Vara“ (Marine Artillerie Batterie 6./502 Vara) at Møvik, 8 kilometers southwest of the center of Kristiansand, 1942.

Edited October 16 by Kriegsmarine Admiral

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Inspection of the Naval Artillery Battery „Vara“ (Marine Artillerie Batterie 6./502 Vara) at Møvik, 8 kilometers southwest of the center of Kristiansand, 1942.
1: Generaladmiral Hermann Boehm, Commanding Admiral Norway (10 April 1940-31 January 1943)
2: Admiral Otto von Schrader, Admiral of the Norwegian West Coast (09 April 1940-01 February 1943)

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Konteradmiral Walther Oehler (middle), Commander of the II. Naval-Flak-Brigade (01 May 1942-13 December 1943), during an exercise in Wilhelmshaven, 25 March 1943.

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Inspection of the crew of the Destroyer „ZG 3 Hermes“, Greece, 1942.
1: Fregattenkapitän Rolf Johannesson, Commandant of the Destroyer „ZG 3 Hermes“ (08 February 1942-02 April 1943)
2: Vizeadmiral Erich Förste, Admiral Aegean (27 September 1941-31 January 1943)
3: Contrammiraglio Gaetano Catalano Gonzaga, Commander of the Northern Aegean High Naval Command, at the same time Chief Liaison between the Regia Marina and the Kriegsmarine in the Aegean Sea (2 December 1942-26 July 1943)

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The Commanding Admiral on the Channel Coast, November 1942.
Admiral [Wilhelm] Marschall [Commanding Admiral France (12 August 1942-30 November 1942) and at the same time Commander-in-Chief of the Naval-Group-Command West (21 September 1942-19 April 1943)] repeatedly checks the individual sections of the Coastal Battery of the Naval Artillery and convinces himself that any invasion attempt by the British, however large-scale, will come to an end here.

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Konteradmiral Hermann Boehm (left), Commander of Reconnaissance Forces (25 September 1934-27 September 1937), and Kapitän zur See Hubert Schmundt (right), Commandant of the Light Cruiser „Nürnberg“ (01 November 1935-13 October 1936), on board the „Nürnberg“, 1936.

Edited November 5 by Kriegsmarine Admiral

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Konteradmiral Hermann Boehm, Commander of Reconnaissance Forces (25 September 1934-27 September 1937), inspecting the crew of the Light Cruiser „Nürnberg“, 1936.

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Admiral Hermann von Fischel (middle), Naval Commander Channel Coast (20 February 1941-31 January 1943), with his adjutant (right) and a Korvettenkapitän from his Staff (left) in front of Chateau Mont-Saint-Aignan near Rouen, France, July 1942.
At this time, Chateau Mont-Saint-Aignan served as the headquarters of the Naval Commander Channel Coast and his Staff.

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Admiral Wilhelm Marschall (left), Commanding Admiral France (12 August 1942-30 November 1942) and at the same time Commander-in-Chief of the Naval-Group-Command West (21 September 1942-19 April 1943), visiting the headquarters of Admiral Hermann von Fischel (in the middle, with the white visor cap), Naval Commander Channel Coast (20 February 1941-31 January 1943), at Chateau Mont-Saint-Aignan near Rouen, France, July 1942.

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Kriegsmarine admirals inspecting the crew of the Battleship „Tirpitz“, 1942. At this time the „Tirpitz“ was moored in the Fættenfjord near Trondheim.
1: Generaladmiral Rolf Carls, Commander-in-Chief of the Naval-Group-Command North (21 September 1940-01 March 1943)
2: Admiral Otto Schniewind, Fleet Chief (12 June 1941-30 July 1944)
3: Vizeadmiral z.V. Eduard Eichel, Senior-Shipyard-Director of the Kriegsmarine-Shipyard Trondheim (06 August 1940-30 April 1943)

[Graf]

In this photo King Boris III is dressed in a navy uniform I am not sure whether he held any honorable rank in the German navy

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10 hours ago, Graf said:

In this photo King Boris III is dressed in a navy uniform I am not sure whether he held any honorable rank in the German navy

All I could find is that he was "à la suite der Kaiserlichen Marine gestellt" on 10 September 1916.

More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/À_la_suite

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6 hours ago, Kriegsmarine Admiral said:

All I could find is that he was "à la suite der Kaiserlichen Marine gestellt" on 10 September 1916.

More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/À_la_suite

Thank you

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Vizeadmiral Raul Mewis (right), Commander of the Fortifications of the Western Baltic Sea (01 October 1937-31 May 1940) and at the same time the Coastal-Commander Denmark (08 April 1940-31 May 1940), talking with Generalmajor Otto Roettig (left), Commander of the 198th Infantry Division (10 January 1940-10 April 1942).
The photo was most likely taken on 9 April 1940 in Copenhagen, shortly after the German invasion of Denmark.

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Admiralarzt Dr. med. Karl Eyerich enjoying a sunny day at the beach in Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands, date unknown.
He was the Chief-Medic of the Naval-Hospital Eindhoven (26 May 1941-28 February 1944) and at the same time the Chief-Medic of the Naval-Hospital Bergen op Zoom (26 May 1941-28 February 1944).

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Staff members of the Fleet Command pose for a group photo in front of the Command Ship „Hela“, most likely in Gotenhafen, January/February 1943.
1: Admiralarzt Dr. med. Gerhard Müller, Medic with Fleet Command (13 June 1941-31 March 1943)
2: Admiral Otto Schniewind, Fleet Chief (12 June 1941-30 July 1944)
3: Konteradmiral August Thiele, Chief of Staff of the Fleet Command (30 June 1941-15 February 1943)
4: Fregattenkapitän Hans-Jürgen Reinicke, 1st Admiral Staff Officer of the Fleet Command (18 October 1942-17 February 1943)

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Admiralarzt Dr. med. Werner d'Hargues, Chief Medical Officer with the Staff of the Commanding Admiral France (13 February 1941-31 August 1942), during a visit to a Naval Medical Unit in Bordeaux, France, January 1942.