Eduard Grote

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Eduard F. Grote (* before 1929, † after 1950) was a German tank designer from the 1920s to 1940s and head of an engineering office.

Life

TG " Tank Grote "

In 1929/30, when he was an employee of Rheinmetall , Grote and his team were invited to the Soviet Union , where he was supposed to help set up mechanical engineering in the USSR . From March 1930 Grote worked in the Leningrad Bolshevik plant in the development of a heavily armored medium tank (TG " Tank Grote "). After some unsuccessful drafts, Grote had to leave the Soviet Union again in 1933 and returned to Essen , where he worked for Krupp .

Scale replica of the P-1000 "Rat"

He worked in Germany in the newly created Ministry of Armaments (RMfBuM) as director of the area “Matters of the Navy” and was appointed by Fritz Todt on May 8, 1941 during the Second World War as the representative for performance testing at OKM / MWaWi. His job was to review the worker requirements in the shipyards and to increase production through various measures.

Together with the engineer Hacker, he received an order from Adolf Hitler to design a 1,000-tonne large tank. Grote's designs include, for example, the heavy tank Landkreuzer P-1000 "Ratte", the P-1500 "Monster" and similar designs known as "tank cruisers" or "fortress tanks" (see also armored troops of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS # projects) to overweight tanks ).

Grotesque trail is lost in Johannesburg , South Africa, from where he applied for a patent in the Federal Republic of Germany on April 28, 1950. Details of his life are not known.

literature

  • Heavy tank projects. Concepts and drafts of the Wehrmacht Ed. Michael Fröhlich, Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 2016. ISBN 978-3-613-03925-4

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ in the spellings Edward Cave and Edward Grot e (t) discoverable
  2. ↑ Robert Forczyk : Panzerjäger vs KV -1. Eastern Front 1941-43. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-1-782-00302-1 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  3. ↑ Alexander Lüdeke : tanks of the USSR. 1917-1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2015. ISBN 978-3-613-31047-6 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  4. ↑ a b Bill Yenne: Hitler's Monster Tanks. historynet.com, August 2018.
  5. ↑ Andreas Meyhoff: Blohm & Voss in the "Third Reich". A major Hamburg shipyard between business and politics. [= Volume 38 of Hamburg's contributions to social and contemporary history ], Christians, Hamburg 2001, p. 330. ISBN 978-3-767-21388-3 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  6. ^ Bernhard R. Kroener ; Rolf-Dieter Müller ; Hans Umbreit: Organization and mobilization of the German sphere of influence. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1988, p. 480, fn. 9.
  7. ^ Gregor Janssen: The Speer Ministry. Germany's armaments at war. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1968, p. 94. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  8. ↑ Gert Buchheit : Hitler the general. The destruction of a legend. Grote, 1958, p. 266. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  9. ↑ Heinz Guderian : memories of a soldier. K. Vowinckel Verlag, 1960, p. 253. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  10. ↑ Zack Parsons: My Tank Is Fight! Kensington, 2006, p. 15. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
personal data
SURNAME Grote, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grotto, Eduard; Grote, Edward; Grotto, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and tank designer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1929
DATE OF DEATH after 1950