Albrecht Obermaier

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Albrecht Obermaier (born July 9, 1912 in Freising ; † August 1, 2004 in Feldafing ) was a German naval officer. At the end of his service, he served in the rank of Vice Admiral as Commander of the NATO Command Naval Forces Baltic Approaches (Commander, Naval Forces Baltic Approaches ).

Life

Obermaier began training with the merchant navy in 1931 and twice circumnavigated Cape Horn on sailing ships . In 1933 he switched to the Reichsmarine and became a naval officer there . During the Second World War he served in the Schnellbootwaffe as a commander and as a flotilla chief . As such, he led from March 1941 to July 1944 in the rank of corvette captain of the 6th speed boat flotilla of the Navy, which was used in the North Sea and the English Channel .

After the war he worked as a sales representative and later as an advisor to the Egyptian Navy.

In 1956, Obermeier joined the German Navy. After initial employment in the Federal Ministry of Defense , he became head of the commissioning command in 1959 and, from 1960, the first commander of destroyer 5 , which he had taken over from the US Navy and which he led until the end of 1961.

In January 1964, he was appointed Flotilla Admiral in command of the North Sea Naval Section Command . From October 1964 to September 1965 as Rear Admiral Commander Central Naval Command , then until March 1966 first Chief of the Naval Office . He was then Deputy Commander of the Fleet until December 1966 and from April 1967 to September 1968 Chief of Staff in the Command Staff of the Armed Forces .

From October 1968, Obermaier, promoted to Vice Admiral, was in command of the Allied Naval Forces in Karup in Denmark until his retirement in 1971 .

literature

  • Jürgen Oesten, obituary. In: MOV-MOH-DMI-Nachrichten 10-2004, p. 94 * f.

Individual evidence

  1. Entry in the German Naval Archives
  2. Wolfgang Harnack: The destroyer flotilla of the German Navy from 1958 to today . Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0816-1 , p. 88.
predecessor Office successor
- Head of the Naval Office
1965–1966
Günter Kuhnke