Eugene Lindau

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Eugen Lindau (1942)
Lindau receiving U 129 in Lorient (1941)

Eugen Lindau (born May 3, 1883 in Magdeburg , † May 10, 1960 in Hamburg ) was a German naval officer , most recently an admiral in World War II .

Life

Lindau joined the Imperial Navy as a midshipman on April 1, 1903 , completed his ship training on the cruiser frigate SMS Stein and then went to the Mürwik Naval School . He was then transferred to the liner SMS Elsass on October 1, 1905 and was promoted to lieutenant on September 28, 1906. From October 1, 1908 to July 1, 1914, he was a member of the I. Torpedo Division, where he was initially an officer on watch in use on various torpedo boats . From November 1912 to May 1914, Oberleutnant zur See Lindau (since November 10, 1908) was temporarily in command of the torpedo boat SMS S 142 . In June 1914 he was transferred to the II. Torpedo Boat Flotilla, of which he was to belong until mid-June 1915 after the outbreak of the First World War . The Lindau, promoted to lieutenant captain on October 13, 1914 , commanded the torpedo boat SMS S 144 and after his transfer to III. Torpedo boat flotilla the torpedo boat SMS V 100 .

After the end of the war, he was briefly adjutant for the inspection of the torpedo system, before serving as a company commander in the 1st Guard Reserve Regiment from December 1918 to the end of July 1919 . Then he was battalion commander in the II Marine Brigade until May 31, 1920 and was then taken over into the Reichsmarine . Until April 12, 1921 he was in command of the 1st Division of the North Sea ship master division. From April 13 to May 24, 1921, Lindau belonged to the tribe of the small cruiser Arcona , before he was subsequently deployed as first officer on the ship and promoted to corvette captain on July 1, 1921 . From November 11, 1922 to October 9, 1923, he again commanded the I. Department of the North Sea Ship Mastery Division and then served as a consultant in the naval officer personnel department (PA) of the naval command until October 26, 1926 . Subsequently, Lindau was commander of the II. Division of the ship's trunk division of the Baltic Sea until October 9, 1929 and became a frigate captain on May 1, 1928 . On October 1, 1929, Lindau was assigned to the ship trunk of the Karlsruhe and from the commissioning of the small cruiser he was its commander until September 25, 1931. On February 1, 1930 he became a sea ​​captain . This was followed by his use as the commandant of Swinoujscie . At the same time as his promotion to rear admiral on October 1, 1933, Lindau took over as head of the Reichsmarinstelle Hamburg. In this function he was also Wehrgaubefehlshaber Hamburg until September 30, 1934. Lindau was then admiral of the Navy Service in Hamburg until October 5, 1936 and was then appointed as the inspector of the military replacement inspection in Elbing. There he was promoted to Vice Admiral on October 1, 1937 . From August 22, 1938, he was inspector of the Bremen replacement inspection.

Lindau was passed on December 31, 1939, but one day later it was made available to the Navy again and assigned to the Hamburg Prize Court as deputy Reich Commissioner. On May 26, 1940 he was Navy Commander in Northern France and from February 20, 1941 he was Navy Commander in Western France. On March 1, 1942, he was promoted to Admiral zV; Lindau was placed at the disposal of the commanding admiral of the North Sea naval station from August 8 to 31, 1942 , after which he was released from active service and retired.

Awards

literature

  • Hans H. Hildebrand and Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945, Volume 2: HO (Habicht bis Orth) , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1989, ISBN 3-7648-2481-6

Web links

Commons : Eugen Lindau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ranking list of the German Reichsmarine , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1929, p. 41
personal data
SURNAME Lindau, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, most recently admiral in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1960
Place of death Hamburg