Carl-Siegfried von Georg
Carl-Siegfried Georg since 1918 Ritter von Georg (born August 27, 1886 in Oberndorf , † September 26, 1957 in Cologne ) was a German naval officer and submarine commander in the First World War .
Life
Carl-Siegfried was the third of six children of the couple Wilhelm Balthasar Georg and his wife Rosa, nee. Born by the landlord of Altenthan and Weiherhaus. His father was a factory owner and royal Bavarian commercial councilor . After attending grammar school in Schweinfurt and secondary school in Nuremberg , Georg joined the Imperial Navy as a midshipman on April 1, 1905 .
He first completed his basic training on the school ship Charlotte and then came to the naval school, where he was appointed ensign at sea on April 7, 1906 . After he had successfully completed school, he left for East Asia on October 1, 1907. There Georg subsequently served on the great cruisers Fürst Bismarck and Scharnhorst . As a lieutenant at sea (since September 28, 1908) he started his journey home to Germany in November 1909 and after his arrival was initially made available to the I. Marine Inspection. Of 11 April 1910 to 24 March 1911 knew Georg service as a deck officer on the light cruiser Kolberg , was born on January 27, 1911 Lieutenant and then treated as a company officer to the 1st Torpedo Division. On March 17, 1913, he was transferred back to the Kolberg , where he remained until July 27, 1914. Then Georg was deployed as a watch officer and adjutant on the small cruiser Regensburg .
First World War
When the First World War broke out, Georg continued to serve there, taking part in the battle on the Dogger Bank and protecting the ship from a submarine torpedo hit by quickly intervening in his role as combat maneuver officer. In January 1916 Georg completed a three-month submarine training course and then took over as commander of the U 4 , which was used as a training boat , in order to train submarine personnel himself.
On April 19, 1916 he was promoted to lieutenant captain and on July 6, 1916, when he was commissioned, he was given command of U 57 . By boat, he managed one consisting of 22 vessels fishing trawler - Flotilla on the Dogger Bank to sink within a few hours. In the following years he operated mainly in the Irish Sea and on the south coast of Ireland .
After returning from an enemy voyage with considerable machine damage, Georg was given command of U 101 in December 1917 . From his home base in Helgoland he was able to sink enemy ship space totaling over 110,000 GRT by the end of the war, making him one of the militarily most successful submarine commanders of the First World War. For his services he was on June 23, 1918 by the Bavarian King Ludwig III. Awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility and from this point on he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Georg .
Interwar years
After the end of the war, from November 22, 1918, Georg was initially placed at the disposal of the inspection of the submarine system and the naval station of the Baltic Sea and, from July 24, the Kiel command office. He retired from active service due to his participation in the Kapp Putsch on August 28, 1920. Georg then briefly worked as a battalion commander in the Loewenfeld naval brigade , before he resigned there and trained as a businessman.
From 1925 Georg was the owner of the company v. Georg & Co , Hamburg, and joined the Selbstfahrer Union as managing partner in 1928 . In 1933 he became a member of the board of directors of Adlerwerke and, from 1937, of Metallgesellschaft , both in Frankfurt am Main .
On May 1, 1933, Georg joined the NSDAP with membership number 3.279.693 and in January 1938 he also became a member of the SS (membership number 291.154), in which he last held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer .
Second World War
On 27 August 1939 the so-called Tannenbergtag , George received the character as a Lieutenant Commander awarded and was available on the September 11, 1939 Navy asked. Initially he was appointed head of the armaments group in the Main Office of Warship Construction of the High Command of the Navy and promoted to Korvettenkapitän zV on June 1, 1940 and to Frgattenkapitän zV on July 1, 1942. As such, Georg was head of the department from April 1, 1943 and from October 1, 1943 at the same time chief of the special staff Marine Italy of the Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production .
His mobilization provision was lifted on April 28, 1945, and with the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht on May 8, 1945, Georg was taken prisoner by the Allies , from which he was released on December 19, 1947.
Post-war years
Georg worked in the post-war period until his death as a partner and managing director of the Continental Trading Company for Metals and Chemical Products mbH in Cologne.
Awards
- Order of the Crown IV class
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
- Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords
- Pour le Mérite on April 24, 1918
- Bavarian Order of Military Merit IV class with swords
- German cross in silver on February 15, 1945
Web links
literature
- Rudolf von Kramer and Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: VIRTUTI PRO PATRIA - The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order, War Deeds and Book of Honor 1914–1918 , self-published by the Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order, Munich 1966.
- Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War Volume 1: A – G , Biblio Verlag Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2505-7 , pp. 477–478.
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy , Ed .: Marinekabinett , Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1918, p. 42
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Georg, Carl-Siegfried von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Georg, Carl-Siegfried Ritter von; Georg, Carl-Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German naval officer, submarine commander in World War I. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberndorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1957 |
| Place of death | Cologne |