Erich Alfred Breuning

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Erich Alfred Breuning (born October 16, 1897 in Rottweil ; † November 28, 1978 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ) was a German naval officer, most recently Rear Admiral of the Navy .

career

Imperial Navy

Breuning joined the Imperial Navy on January 3, 1916 as a war volunteer and officer candidate ( midshipman ) and received his basic nautical training until May 4, 1916 on the old cruiser Freya, which was used as a training ship . Then he served for further training until October 31, 1916 on the ship of the line Schleswig-Holstein , where he was appointed ensign at sea on October 12 . From November 1, 1916 to June 1917, officers were trained at the Mürwik Naval School as well as various weapons courses, and then until November 15, 1917, a transfer to the I. Sea Aviation Department in Kiel-Holtenau . From November 16, 1917 until the end of World War I , Breuning finally served on the ship of the line Kaiserin , with the March 17, 1918 promotion to lieutenant at sea . On November 18, 1918, he was given a temporary leave of absence.

Imperial Navy

On February 25, 1919, Breuning was commanded as a watch officer on the small cruiser Cöln , which at that time was interned with the German deep sea fleet in Scapa Flow . After the self- sinking of the German fleet on June 21, 1919, Breuning, like all crew members of the interned and sunk German ships, was taken prisoner by the British , from which he was released on January 31, 1920. After several months of vacation, he was transferred to the II. Torpedo Boat Flotilla on June 16, 1920, where he first worked as a division and artillery officer on the torpedo boats T 196 (ex G 196 ) and V 3 and then from April 1, 1922, as a first lieutenant was promoted to sea , served on V 2 . On October 1, 1922, he was transferred as platoon leader to Coast Defense Battalion I, where he remained until September 27, 1925. Two years followed, from September 28, 1925 to September 29, 1927, as adjutant and officer on watch on the small cruiser Nymphe ; During this time he took part from January to March 1927 in a further training course with the mine test command. On September 30, 1927 he was commander of the minesweeper M 122 in the 1st minesweeping semi-flotilla, where he was promoted to lieutenant captain on December 1, 1928 . From September 24, 1929 to March 31, 1932, Breuning served as head of a cadet training company at the Mürwik Naval School, then until September 20, 1934 as an advisor to the mine test commission. From September 21, 1934 to October 15, 1936 he was III. Staff officer with the commander of the reconnaissance forces on the light cruiser Nuremberg ; In this position he was promoted to Korvettenkapitän on April 1, 1935 .

Navy

October 16, 1936 to the September 9, 1942 Breuning Speaker IE was (d. H. Mine Speaker) in the naval staff in the High Command of the Navy . There he was promoted to frigate captain on October 1, 1938 and to sea captain on April 1, 1940 . Then from September 21, 1942 to May 31, 1943, he commanded the 3rd Security Division in Nostang near Lorient , whose units operated from ports in Brittany between Saint-Malo , Brest and Lorient, and advanced on June 1, 1943, with simultaneous promotion to Rear Admiral , Commander of Security West . He remained in this position until it was dissolved at the end of September 1944. From October 28, 1944 until the end of the war, he was chief of staff at the Nazi command staff in the OKW under its head, General of the Infantry Hermann Reinecke .

After the partial surrender of German forces in the northwest , he brought on British statement from Rotterdam discontinued, on the speedboat S 205 , and in the company of S 204 , the charts of the German and Dutch North Sea coast with all drawn in German minefields to Felixstowe . There he was taken prisoner of war, from which he was released on May 17, 1948.

Breuning died in Las Palmas on Gran Canaria in 1978.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ T 196 became the FdM's guide boat in 1938
  2. ↑ V 2 , V 3 and V 5 were retired in November 1929.
  3. ↑ Chris Madsen: The Royal Navy and German Naval Disarmament, 1942-1947 , Frank Cass, London & Portland, Oregon, 1998, ISBN 0-7146-4373-4 , p. 58.
  4. ↑ On January 9, 1946, he was transferred from Camp 1 at Churchdown in Gloucestershire to the officers' camp Island Farm Special Camp XI near Bridgend in Wales .
personal data
SURNAME Breuning, Erich Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, most recently rear admiral of the Kriegsmarine in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottweil , Germany
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1978
Place of death Las Palmas , Gran Canaria , Spain