Hugo Deiring

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Hugo Deiring (born July 25, 1920 in Grönenbach , Allgäu ; † August 5, 1999 in Munich ) was a German journalist and long - time editor -in- chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . During the Second World War , Deiring served in the Navy , most recently as a first lieutenant at sea . At the end of the war, as a 24-year-old submarine commander, he had his submarine U 3503 sunk off Gothenburg and was interned in Sweden with his crew .

Life

Deiring joined the Navy on October 1, 1938 at the age of 18 as a sea ​​officer candidate and initially completed his basic infantry training, which he completed with the appointment as a midshipman on July 1, 1939. He received practical on-board training from July 1939 to July 1940 on the training ships Schlesien and Schleswig-Hostein and ended this with his appointment as senior ensign at sea on August 1, 1940. From August to October 1940, he served in the 3rd Schnellbootflotille, but began in November 1940 with a submarine training , at the end of which he was appointed lieutenant at sea on April 1, 1941 . From April to September 1941 he was an officer on watch on U 151 . From September 1941 to November 28, 1941 he received the building instruction for U 255 in the warship construction training department U-Nordsee in Bremen , where he was 1st watch officer from November 29, 1941 to October 1942. From November 15, 1942 to February 27, 1944 Deiring was in command of U 56 and was appointed lieutenant at sea on April 1, 1943. From March 1944 to the beginning of September 1944 he attended various courses and underwent building instruction in the 7th warship building training department in Gdansk for the "electric submarine" U 3503 , of which he became commander on September 9, 1944.

With this submarine he left Kiel on May 3, 1945 for his first and only venture without sinking ships. After an air raid by a British Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber on May 6, 1945, U 3503 reached Swedish territorial waters off Gothenburg . Deiring let the submarine on 8 May 1945 itself sink and came with his crew in an internment camp in Backamo at Uddevalla . From there he and his men were extradited to the British occupation authorities in Germany on December 3, 1945 and were taken to a prison camp in Holstein, from which he was released in February 1946.

Without having completed his studies, he worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung his entire professional life from 1947 , initially as an editor, from 1954 as head of the service and from 1960 as deputy editor-in-chief under Hermann Proebst . From 1970 to the end of 1984 he was part of the first five, then six-member editor-in-chief, in which he was responsible for day-to-day operations as “managing editor-in-chief”.

reception

In 1970, Der Spiegel characterized him as a “diligent technocrat who records the editors' output on lists in his desk” and who, unlike most of the leading journalists of the paper, devoted himself entirely to editorial work without lucrative sideline employment, which is why he “as a law enforcement officer Publishers and strict administrators of the fee lists in the editorial office were feared ”. After his death, the Süddeutsche paid tribute to being “significantly involved” in developing the paper “into a national newspaper and introducing the district editions for the Munich region”.

Publications

  • (Ed.): There are enough oaks in Germany. Side lights and caricatures from the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1970.
  • 40 years of contemporary history, 40 years of SZ. An exhibition by the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Catalog. Design of the exhibition: Hugo Deiring. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1985.
  • (Red.): Current lexicon. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1990.
  • (with Klaus Schumann): 50 years of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, 50 years of contemporary history. An exhibition by the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Catalog. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1995.

literature

  • Süddeutsche Zeitung: Half full . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1970, pp. 52–54 ( online - there PDF version with Deiring's portrait on p. 52).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Vol. 1: The German submarine commanders. Mittler, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-8132-0490-1 , p. 50.
  2. ^ Kjell Håkansson: U-3503s sista resa. In: Kjell Håkansson: Ubåt om styrbord, kapten! - När Handelsfartyg var jagat villebråd. Breakwater Publishing, Göteborg 2010. pp. 119–123, here p. 121.
  3. ↑ a b Süddeutsche Zeitung: Half full . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1970, pp. 52-54 ( online ).
  4. ↑ a b mourning for Hugo Deiring. In: BDZV.de , August 13, 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Deiring, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Groenenbach
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1999
Place of death Munich