Carl August Claussen

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Carl August Claussen (born March 10, 1881 in Altengamme ; † September 11, 1968 in Hamburg ) was a German naval officer , most recently rear admiral in World War II .

Life

Claussen joined the Imperial Navy on April 7, 1900 and completed his ship training on the cruiser frigate SMS Moltke . From April 1, 1901 to September 30, 1902, he was at the naval school and was appointed ensign at sea on April 19, 1901 . Claussen then served on the liner SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II until March 31, 1904 and was meanwhile promoted to lieutenant on September 27, 1903 . For almost a year he was deployed on the training ship SMS Stosch . With his promotion to first lieutenant at sea on March 21, 1905, Claussen took over the ship's boys division as a division officer. On October 1, 1905, he changed to the ship of the line SMS Schwaben as a watch officer for a year and was then a company officer in the I. Torpedo Division until September 30, 1908. At the same time he acted there as a watch officer on the torpedo boats S 100 and S 125 . From October 1, 1908 to September 14, 1910 he was adjutant, then company officer and first officer of the regular boat of the VI. Torpedo boat reserve division within the I. Torpedo Division. The captainleutnant (since January 27, 1910) was temporarily in command of the torpedo boats S 130 , S 84 and the torpedo division boat D 7 . From October 1, 1913 to May 31, 1914, Claussen attended the Kiel Naval Academy and completed the first course there. Subsequently he was made available to the chief of the deep sea fleet until the outbreak of the First World War .

After the start of the war, he was initially in command of the torpedo boat S 130 and then until June 13, 1916 of the V 184 , V 99 and B 112 . He was then appointed chief of the 6th torpedo boat semi-flotilla and, after his promotion to corvette captain on March 17, 1918, chief of the III. Torpedo boat flotilla. He held this command beyond the end of the war until December 17, 1918. Claussen was then head of the Association of Repair Boats and from March 20 to May 30, 1919 department commander of the I. Torpedo Division. At the same time Claussen was assigned to the personnel office of the naval station of the Baltic Sea from May 1 to 30, 1919 . He was then transferred to the Reichsmarineamt and the Admiralty as a liaison officer. This was followed from March 22nd to June 5th, 1920, the command to service the Admiralty. On June 16, 1920, Claussen was appointed head of the North Sea torpedo boat flotilla. Just two months later, he switched to the Navy's education department as Chief of Staff. Here he remained until his transfer on October 14, 1922 as head of the central department of the Wilhelmshaven naval shipyard . There he was promoted to frigate captain on January 1, 1924 . As such, Claussen took over on October 13, 1924 as head of the Reichsmarinedienststelle Stettin . After being promoted to captain at sea on October 1, 1926, shortly afterwards on October 15, 1926, he became head of the nautical department of the naval command .

Claussen was retired from the Navy on September 30, 1930 while being promoted to rear admiral.

On February 1, 1931, he began as a civilian employee in the military district command II (Stettin) as head of the military economy. When he was reactivated as a state protection officer on October 1, 1933, he was employed as head of the military economy in Wehrkreiskommando X (Hamburg), and there he was inspector of the Wehrwirtschaftsinspektion X from April 1, 1935 until he was resigned on September 30, 1937.

Claussen was made available to the Navy on January 1, 1939, and from June 17, 1941 to January 1, 1942, he was employed as a shipyard representative for the Romanian naval mission. Afterwards he was the shipyard representative or head of the shipyard staff at the Admiral Schwarzes Meer until February 1, 1943 , before he came as a prize officer at the Hamburg Prize Court . On May 10, 1943, Claussen was placed at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine and finally retired on June 30, 1943.

Awards

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (ed.): Germany's generals and admirals. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Part 1: Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849–1945. Volume 1: A – G (Ackermann to Gygas). Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1988, ISBN 3-7648-2480-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Ranking list of the German Reichsmarine , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn Verlag , Berlin 1929, p. 40
personal data
SURNAME Claussen, Carl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer and rear admiral in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Altengamme
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1968
Place of death Hamburg