Albrecht Schnarke

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Albrecht Schnarke (born September 20, 1906 in Berlin ; † June 1, 1987 in Kiel ) was a German naval officer , most recently a sea captain , managing director and entrepreneur .

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Imperial Navy

Albrecht Schnarke entered the Imperial Navy on April 1, 1926 as an officer candidate . He completed his midshipman training on the light cruiser Emden , with which he went on a world tour from November 14, 1926 to March 14, 1928. He then served for two years as an officer on watch with the 1st minesweeping semi-flotilla and then for two more years as an orderly officer and adjutant with the I. Marine Artillery Department in Kiel .

Navy

  • Training as an artillery officer at the ship artillery school Kiel-Wik, 1935
  • Artillery engineer officer and division officer on the light cruiser Karlsruhe
  • Artillery engineer on the school cruiser Koenigsberg , 1937
  • Adviser at the artillery test command for ships, from November 1938 to May 1940
  • Staff officer in the Marine Artillery Regiment 22 and 24, from May 1940 to July 1940 involved in the capture of Dunkirk .
  • 2nd Admiral Staff Officer at the Naval Commander in West France ( Royan ), from July 1940 to December 1940, at the same time 1st Admiral Staff Officer, MdWdGb
  • Building instruction for the battleship Tirpitz , from January to February 1941
  • 1st anti-aircraft artillery officer on the battleship Tirpitz , from February 1941 to March 1943
  • Commander of the 1st Division of the Naval Air Defense and Coastal Artillery School from March to September 1943
  • Commander of the Marine Flak School I ( Ückeritz ), from October 1943 to May 1944
  • Commander of the artillery test command of the Kriegsmarine ( Zempin ), from May 1944 until the end of the war, at the same time commander of the Naval Fortress Regiment 4 ( Swinoujscie ), from January 15, 1945 to March 26, 1945
  • Infantry Regiment 111 , camp commandant Camp Heiligenhafen until July 25, 1945
  • Release from English captivity on July 25, 1945

post war period

Immediately after the Second World War , Schnarke initially worked as a farm worker on Gut Quarnbek near Kiel, the refuge of his family of six. In September 1945 he found a position as an assistant at the Dr. Ing.Joachim Rathjens, later he became managing director in a branch of the company, in which he worked for 3 ½ years. In the time after the currency reform, he worked for an insurance company and then tried to support the family with his own craft and model workshop. This activity brought him into contact with the company founder and owner Friedrich Karl Peltzer of Wiking Modellbau . In September 1949 he succeeded in joining this company, in which he later became a general agent. He set up a branch factory for this company in Kiel, and then became its operations manager and managing director.

Federal Navy

In February 1956 Albrecht Schnarke returned to the Navy. Due to his skills and wealth of experience in the field of weapon development, he brought himself into the then still young and developing German Navy . After various assignments, he last led the naval weapons command in Kiel as a commander until he was retired as a sea ​​captain in September 1964 .

Poseidon GmbH Kiel

After his retirement, he started working as a freelance employee in the Poseidon GmbH development office in Kiel in October 1964 and in 1968 took over the management as a partner. The company dealt with the armament and equipment of warships as well as the creation of building guidelines and operating instructions for naval crews. Here, too, Schnarke was able to contribute his excellent marine-specific expertise and developed the company into a respected and successful company.

Hobbies

In addition to his professional activity, Schnarke always took the time to compensate. B. shows his interest in economy, politics and history and the construction of model ships , especially warships. A remarkable model ship collection of over 2000 war and merchant ships in various scales from his estate was transferred to the Kiel Maritime Museum after his death and made available to the public in a special department.

Promotions

Awards

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  • The German Navy 1939-1945, W. Lohmann and H. Hildebrand, (personal details 291-334) Podzun-Verlag
  • Handbook of the Federal Armed Forces and the Defense Industry, July 1979 edition
  • Crew book crew 26
  • Ranking list of the German Navy, various years
  • private family archive B. Ruhfus-Hartmann, Koblenz

Web links

Portrait of Albrecht Schnarke

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Kieler Nachrichten of April 30, 1988, page 17.
personal data
SURNAME Snark, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, most recently sea captain, managing director and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1987
Place of death Kiel