Friedrich Frisius

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Friedrich Frisius (born January 17, 1895 in Salzuflen , † August 30, 1970 in Lingen (Ems) ) was a German naval officer , most recently vice admiral in World War II .

Life

Friedrich Frisius, son of the Lutheran pastor Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Frisius in Lingen, joined the Imperial Navy on April 1, 1913 as a midshipman ( crew 13 ) after graduating from high school in Easter 1913 at the Georgianum Lingen grammar school and completed his basic training on the large cruiser SMS Victoria Louise . He then went to the Mürwik Naval School , where he was appointed ensign at sea on April 3, 1914 , and when the First World War broke out, he was transferred to the II. Torpedo Division. He was then on duty on the artillery tender SMS Drache and, after being promoted to lieutenant in the sea , was used as an officer on watch from September 18, 1915 to June 1916 . In this function he was with the 18th Torpedo Boat Half Flotilla and stayed there after the end of the war.

From February 20 to December 6, 1919, Frisius was a watch officer of the Iron Flotilla in Wilhelmshaven , an association consisting of torpedo boats . Subsequently, he briefly joined the Marine Brigade von Loewenfeld , then worked as a company officer in the coastal defense department and as an orderly officer in the staff of the commander of the land forces of the Baltic Sea.

As Oberleutnant zur See (since January 7, 1920), after his takeover in the Reichsmarine from October 1, 1921 to March 31, 1923, he was employed as a company officer in Coast Defense Division V. Afterwards, Frisius was a watch officer on the ship of the line Hanover for a year and then came with simultaneous promotion to lieutenant captain on April 1, 1925 as adjutant to the ship master division of the Baltic Sea. For two years he was transferred to Swinoujscie as commander of the T 158 torpedo boat with the 2nd torpedo boat semi-flotilla . For a further two years he was a third admiral officer on the staff of the North Sea Naval Station and on October 1, 1929, he was assigned to the Defense Department of the Reich Defense Ministry in Berlin . Frisius stayed here until October 7, 1931 and then served as a navigational officer on the light cruiser Leipzig until September 28, 1933 . They replied Lieutenant Commander (since 1 October 1932) Frisius to the Naval Academy Mürwik, where he worked as a staff officer until then as a teacher. From September 21, 1935 to December 4, 1938 he was again in the Reichswehr Ministry, this time as a consultant or group leader in the foreign department or in the Wehrmachtamt (WA) foreign department (Ausl). There he was promoted to frigate captain on October 1, 1936 . After Frisius had become a sea ​​captain on July 1, 1938 , he was employed from December 5, 1938 as an admiral staff officer at the Hamburg Navy .

He held this post beyond the beginning of the Second World War, and after the occupation of France he became chief of the Boulogne Navy on August 6, 1940 . Even after the agency was renamed Commander of the Boulogne Maritime Defense , he remained its boss. On December 16, 1941, this department was combined with three other commanderships to form the commandant of the Pas de Calais naval defense , which was headed by Frisius. In this function he was promoted to Rear Admiral on December 1, 1942 .

After the Allied invasion of Normandy , on September 15, 1944, Frisius was fortress commander of the city of Dunkirk , which had already been enclosed by Canadian troops , where he was promoted to Vice Admiral on September 30, 1944.

Despite several attempts, the Allies failed to liberate Dunkirk. Frisius only surrendered the city to the Czechoslovak Major General Alois Liška after the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht and from this point on he was in Allied captivity in British Special Camp XI , from which he was released on October 6, 1947.

Awards

literature

  • Hans H. Hildebrand and Ernest Henriot: Germanys Admirals 1849-1945 Volume 1: A – G , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1988, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Skutella, Martin: The Lingener high school graduates from 1832 to 1933. Lingen 1933 Archive Gymnasium Georgianum: Main Student Directory V (1909–1936)
  2. ↑ Ranking list of the German Reichsmarine , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1929, p. 46
  3. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall and Veit Scherzer : Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, History and Proprietor Volume II , Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X , p. 124
personal data
SURNAME Frisius, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, most recently vice admiral in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Salzuflen
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1970
Place of death Lingen (Ems)