Eberhard Ahrens
Eberhard Ahrens (born January 13, 1892 in Wetter (Ruhr) , † June 29, 1945 in Malente ) was a German medical officer in three navies.
Life
Ahrens joined Kaiser Franz Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 2 as a one-year volunteer on April 1, 1911 . Assigned to the reserve after six months , he studied at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Akademie for military medical education (KWA). In 1912 he became a member of the KWA Corps Saxonia . After the beginning of the First World War he was drafted into the Imperial Navy . After a short time at the naval hospital in Wilhelmshaven , he came to the Western Front in Flanders . From November 1918 to September 1919 he was again at the KWA. Since it had to be closed after the First World War and the KWA Corps went to Hamburg, Ahrens did his doctorate at the University of Hamburg . In 1923 he was one of the "Saxons" that Franconia took over.
In the Reichsmarine he was ship's doctor for the ship of the line Hessen and the armored ship Admiral Scheer . In 1931 he became a naval chief officer . The Navy promoted him to the squadron doctor (1936) and the fleet doctor (1937). When the attack on Poland began , he became chief physician at the Kiel-Wik naval hospital . On May 31, 1940 he came to the Admiral France as Chief Medical Officer (LSO) . He returned to Kiel in February 1941 and also took over the management of the Kiel-Hassee naval hospital . On September 1, 1941, he was promoted to admiralty doctor. From August 1942 he was LSO at the Marine Group Command South . In November 1943 he returned to Schleswig-Holstein as chief physician of the Malente naval hospital. After a year he was put up for disposal (presumably due to illness) at the Naval High Command East . At 53, he committed suicide .
See also
- Ranks of the medical officers of the German navies
- Structure of the Navy
- Navy hospitals of the Kriegsmarine
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 63/173; 60/520
- ^ Dissertation: About a case of lymphangioma of the conjunctiva tarsi . Hamburg 1920.
- ↑ deutsches-marinearchiv.de
- ↑ List of the German admirals who died and were taken prisoner in connection with the Second World War ( Memento of April 7, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) from: Archive of Geocities.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ahrens, Eberhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medical officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weather (Ruhr) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1945 |
| Place of death | Malente |