Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko

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Marinesko's grave in Saint Petersburg
Alexander Marinesko

Alexander Marinesko ( Russian Александр Иванович Маринеско ; born January 2 . Jul / 15. January  1913 greg. In Odessa ; † 25. November 1963 in Leningrad ) was submarine -Kommandant in World War II .

Marinesko was born in Odessa , the son of a Romanian sailor and a Ukrainian . He received his military training with the Soviet Black Sea Fleet . He was later transferred to the Baltic Fleet .

Marinesko sank the Wilhelm Gustloff and the Steuben during the Second World War as commander of the submarine S-13 . Over 12,000 people were killed, most of them refugees. For the sinking of these German ships, he wanted to be recognized as the hero of the Soviet Union . But since he had otherwise attracted attention due to a lack of discipline, he was denied this.

Instead, he was dishonorably discharged from the Navy after the war . He later spent two years in the prison camp for theft . In 1963 he died in Leningrad. In 1990, however, 27 years after his death, Marinesko was rehabilitated and posthumously named Hero of the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev . In Kaliningrad , the former Königsberg, Marinesko is honored by naming a bank on the Pregelufer and a memorial on the castle pond that was erected a few years ago. A Boeing 737-300 of the 2009 bankrupt Kaliningrad airline KD Avia was named Alexander Marinesko (registration EI-DJR ).

Marinesko plays an important role in Günter Grass ' novella Im Krebsgang . He is buried in the Bogoslovskoye Cemetery in Saint Petersburg .

The 2005 episode-based Russian feature film The First After God won an award.

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