Felix Scheffler

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Scheffler's grave in Rostock

Felix Scheffler (born February 9, 1915 in Hamburg , † March 13, 1986 in Rostock ) was a German naval officer , most recently rear admiral and first chief of the People's Navy .

Life

Felix Scheffler came from the family of a commercial employee. After graduating high school he attended from 1930 to 1933 trained as a chemist in Altona adElbe .

In 1932/33 he was a member of the SA . From 1933 to 1937 he was a cabin boy and steward on ships of the Hapag shipping company. From 1937 to 1941 he served in the Wehrmacht as a non-commissioned officer. From 1941 to 1947 he was a Soviet prisoner of war, during which he was employed as a log driver, stoker and paramedic in various POW camps for the first two years.

In 1942 he became a member of the Antifa committee in the Yelabuga camp . In 1943 he was one of the founders of the NKFD . In 1943/44 he was at the Central Antifa School in Krasnogorsk . In 1944 he supported partisans in the combat zone of the 1st Belarusian Front . After a stay in a hospital, he was deployed by the NKVD in the Vilnius area in 1945 . In 1946 he went to an anti-fascist school in Noginsk , after which he became the head of the anti- fascist activist at the central anti- fascist school.

In November 1947 Scheffler returned to Germany. In 1948 he became a member of the Democratic Peasant Party of Germany (DBD) and was organizational secretary of the DBD until 1950. On May 16, 1949, he was elected to the German People's Congress, which installed the new German People's Council on May 30, 1949, which was initially constituted as the GDR's Provisional People's Chamber on October 7, 1949. Until 1950, Scheffler was a member of the DBD parliamentary group in the Volkskammer's foreign policy committee.

In February 1950 he became a member of the German People's Police (DVP) and at the same time a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In the main administration of the Maritime Police , he was initially a political and cultural officer, then as chief inspector, chief of staff. 1950 to 1954 he was deputy head of the People's Police See . In 1952 he was appointed rear admiral. In 1955 he took over the management function as head of the People's Police See as the successor to Waldemar Verner and in 1956, with the formation of the NVA, he was in charge of the naval forces. From 1957 to 1959 he attended courses at the Naval War Academy of the Soviet Union. He was then deputy to the chief of the naval forces for training, then for technology and, from 1964, as the successor to frigate captain Willi Winkler, head of rear services. According to a Politburo decision by the SED, Rear Admiral Scheffler was the only representative of the NVA generals to do his service as a sailor on a coastal defense ship in May 1959.

After his retirement in 1975 he was a member of the district committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters in Rostock.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Herbst et al. (Ed.): This is how the GDR worked. Volume 2: Lexicon of Organizations. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, p. 1144.
  2. ↑ Klaus Froh & Rüdiger Wenzke , Military History Research Office (ed.): The Generals and Admirals of the NVA: A biographical manual. 5th, through. Edition. Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-438-9 .
  3. ↑ ↑ Klaus Froh & Rüdiger Wenzke, Military History Research Office (ed.): The Generals and Admirals of the NVA: A biographical handbook. 5th, through. Edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-438-9 .
  4. ^ New Germany of April 30, 1985
personal data
SURNAME Scheffler, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Admiral of the People's Navy and Politician (DBD), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1986
Place of death Rostock