reference topic Kriegsmarine Admirals ID thread and photo Database

[LarryT]

Kapitan zur See Hans-Paul Leithauser, later promoted to Konteradmiral.

I think this may also be KzSee Hermann von Bredow, later promoted to Konteradmiral.

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2 hours ago, LarryT said:

I think this may also be KzSee Hermann von Bredow, later promoted to Konteradmiral.

Nice photos Larry! 

The second photo shows KzS Friedrich-Wilhelm Fleischer, later Admiral.

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17 minutes ago, Kriegsmarine Admiral said:

Nice photos Larry! 

The second photo shows KzS Friedrich-Wilhelm Fleischer, later Admiral.

Thanks for the correction.

 

Cheers,

Larry

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Konteradmiral Paul Fanger, during his time as Commandant of Fortifications of Ostfriesland (30 September 1937-12 January 1940).
During the Spanish Civil War he was the Commandant of the Armoured-Ship "Deutschland" (30 September 1935-02 September 1937).
From 17 January 1940 until 03 March 1943 he was the Chief of the Artillery Weapons Office in the Naval-Weapons-Head-Office of the OKM. He was promoted to Admiral on 01 December 1942.
He retired on 31 May 1943 but was later reactivated as Inspector of Coastal and Ship Artillery with the Naval-High-Command Norway (15 August 1944-01 April 1945).
Shortly after he returned from Norway, he was killed on 15 April 1945 during the invasion of US troops in his home town of Schöningen. He was posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords on 30 April 1945.

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Vizeadmiral August Thiele during an inspection of the Heavy Cruiser "Prinz Eugen", late 1944 or early 1945.

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Kapitän zur See (later Konteradmiral) Friedrich Braune and Admiral Conrad Albrecht, pre-war photo.

 

During WW2 Braune served as Officer-Judge in the Reichs War Court, Senior Shipyard Director of the Kriegsmarine-Shipyard in Bergen (Norway), and finally Judge at the Prize-Court in Berlin. He retired on 30 April 1945.

 

Albrecht was promoted to the rank of Generaladmiral on 1 April 1939. He was the second officer to be promoted to that rank after Erich Raeder in 1936. Albrecht's career included the posts of Chief of the Naval-Station of the Baltic Sea, Commanding Admiral of the Naval-Station of the Baltic Sea and Naval-Group-Commander East. At the beginning of WW2, he directed the operations of the Kriegsmarine during the Polish campaign. He retired on 31 December 1939.

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Admiral Otto Ciliax (middle) and Vizeadmiral Heinz Nordmann (left) in Norway, 1943/1944.
Ciliax was the Commander-in-Chief of the Naval-High-Command Norway (04 March 1943-25 April 1945).
Nordmann was the Commanding Admiral of the Norwegian Polar Coast (01 February 1943-19 January 1945).

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Generaladmiral Oskar Kummetz during an inspection of the "Prinz Eugen". Also visible with the same leather coat is Vizeadmiral August Thiele.

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Großadmiral Erich Raeder (left) visiting the Naval School in Mürwik, 1942.
In the middle is Vizeadmiral Walter Georg Lohmann, Commander of the Naval-School Mürwik (13 October 1939-30 September 1942).

[hucks216]

Nice set of photos, especially the one showing Conrad Albrecht.

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32 minutes ago, hucks216 said:

Nice set of photos, especially the one showing Conrad Albrecht.

Thank you. Plenty more to come.

 

Gathering of Kriegsmarine officers in Tilzow on the island of Rügen, 1944.
Officer pointed by the red arrow is Konteradmiral (W) Richard Jewinski. The "(W)" stands for "Waffenoffizier" (Weapons officer). Only 3 officers held that rank in the Kriegsmarine, the other two being Hans Hamelau and Friedrich Matthes.
When these photos were taken, Jewinski was Arsenal-Commandant of the Barrier-Weapons-Arsenal Swinemünde (01 October 1943-05 May 1945).

Edited October 30, 2022 by Kriegsmarine Admiral

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Kriegsmarine parade in Danzig, 10 October 1939.
Standing on the podium saluting is Konteradmiral (later Admiral) Hubert Schmundt, at the time Commander of Naval Forces in the Danziger Bucht (19 September 1939-12 October 1939).
Seen in the bottom right corner are, from left to right:
- Char. Vizeadmiral Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Plenipotentiary of the Navy for Danzig and the Coastal-Region of the former Polish Corridor (10 September 1939-14 March 1940).
- Char. Generalleutnant Heinrich Strack, Commander of Danzig (01 September 1939-12 October 1943).
- SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Huth, President of the Government of the administrative district of Danzig and Deputy Reich Governor in Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia (1939-1945).
Both Arnauld de la Perière and Strack were recipients of the Pour le Mérite, one of the highest orders of merit in the Kingdom of Prussia. Arnauld de la Perière was a famous U-boat commander during WW1 and with 195 ships and 455,869 gross register tons (GRT) sunk, he is the most successful submarine ace ever.

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Kriegsmarine, SA and NSDAP officials observe a sporting event of the Reichsbund for physical exercises in Lübeck, year unknown.
In the middle is Emil Bannemann, NSDAP politician and senator in Lübeck.
On the right is Admiral Otto Hormel, from 30 November 1937 until 05 May 1943 the Senior Shipyard Director of the Kriegsmarine Shipyard in Kiel.

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This is a very interesting press photo that came with a detailed description: "The German Prize Court (Prisenhof) in Hamburg meets. With the greatest sympathy from Germany and abroad, on 14 December 1939 the first public session of the Prize Court opened in the large jury court room of the Hamburg criminal justice building. The negotiation deals with the boarding of several foreign ships. In the middle on the presidential chair: The President of the Prisenhof Hamburg, Higher Regional Court President (Oberlandesgerichtspräsident) Senator Dr. [Curt] Rothenberger, who is also a German member of the Permanent International Court of Arbitration in Haag. To the left of him as assessor (the assistant to a judge or magistrate), Prize Judge (Prisenrichter) Konteradmiral [Siegfried] Claassen. To the right of the President as an assessor, the District Judge (Oberlandesgerichtsrat) Dr. Segelken and also as an assessor, the Prize Judge Legationsrat Dr. Lohmann."
Konteradmiral Siegfried Claassen was a Judge at the Prize Court in Hamburg from 03 September 1939 until 15 December 1942. He retired on 31 January 1943.

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Konteradmiral Erich Alfred Breuning (in the middle), Commander of Security West (01 June 1943-25 September 1944) inspects the sailors of the Kriegsmarine, 1943/44. 
Headquartered in Paris from February 1941, Commander of Security West (Befehlshaber der Sicherung West (B.S.W.) commanded all off shore areas of Holland, Belgium and France. However in October 1941 the area was extended north of the Schelde Estuary to the area under the command of the Commander of Security North (B.S.N.). The Office of the Befehlshaber der Sicherung West was dissolved on 30 September 1944.

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Kriegsmarine officers on deck of the "Scharnhorst", 1942.
In the middle with the brown leather coat is Konteradmiral Bruno Machens, Standing Representative of the Admiral-Quartermaster, Naval Warfare Command, OKM (08 June 1942-19 April 1943).

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AG Weser shipyard in Bremen, 7 March 1942. 
Visible on the far left in the background is Kapitän zur See (Ing.) Ernst Dorn, Kommandeur der Kriegsschiffbaulehrabteilung für Unterseeboote Nord (6. Kriegsschiffbaulehrabteilung). 
On the left, shaking hands with an officer is Konteradmiral z.V. Heinrich Kehrhahn, Chief of the Kriegsmarine-Service-Office Bremen (24 May 1940-31 January 1944).

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Admiralarzt Dr. med. Eberhard Ahrens with his wife Klara in Malente "Bergenhöh", December 1944.
Ahrens served as the Chief-Medic of the Naval-Hospital in Malente (01 November 1943-02 November 1944). He retired on 31 December 1944. The rank of Admiralarzt was equivalent to the rank of Konteradmiral.
He committed suicide on 29 June 1945.

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Konteradmiral Eberhard Wolfram in the middle. He was the Commander of Security of the North Sea (06 April 1940-03 April 1943). On 25 May 1941 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and on 01 April 1942 he was promoted to Vizeadmiral.
On the right is his son Kapitänleutnant Ralf-Reimar Wolfram.

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Commanding Admiral of the Atlantic-Coast (01 March 1943-09 May 1945), Vizeadmiral Ernst Schirlitz (left), on board a Harbor protection boat (Hafenschutzboot) somewhere on the Atlantic coast, 6 July 1944.

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Konteradmiral (Ing.) Alfred Schirmer left (saluting) and Kapitän zur See (Ing.) Max Peters next to him during an inspection at the Marinekaserne in Glückstadt.
Peters would later be promoted to the rank of Konteradmiral (Ing.) and Schirmer to Vizeadmiral (Ing.).

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Generaladmiral Wilhelm Marschall on board the Auxiliary Cruiser "Stier".

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Generaladmiral Alfred Saalwächter, Commander-in-Chief of the Naval-Group-Command West (23 August 1939-20 September 1942), in Le Havre, France.

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The Naval-Commander in the Netherlands (19 June 1940-30 June 1942), Konteradmiral Helmuth Kienast, decorates the Korvettenkapitän on the left with the War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords. 
Helmuth Kienast had a brother, Harald, who was also a Konteradmiral in the Kriegsmarine.

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The Commander of Military-District-Command Vienna (10 January 1940-31 May 1944), Konteradmiral Oswald Paul (left) during a visit of a Minesweeper crew (seen in the background of the photo) to Vienna, year unknown.