Friedrich Goetting

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Friedrich Götting (born October 29, 1886 in Berlin ; † January 3, 1946 in Soviet captivity ) was a German admiral , employed as a commander and department head in the Reichswehr Ministry .

Life

Friedrich goddess appeared as on April 1, 1903 midshipman in the Imperial Navy one. After completing his basic training, he became an ensign at sea on April 15, 1904 . He then attended the naval school and special courses until he began his first trip abroad to East Asia in October 1905. Here he was on board commands for the fleet in this area, on the large cruiser “ Fürst Bismarck ”, the gunboats “Luchs”, “Tiger” and “Iltis”. During this time he was promoted to lieutenant in 1906 . After two years he returned to Germany in November 1907. Further assignments as a watch officer on the small cruiser " Hamburg ", as a company officer in the I. Torpedo Division and his promotion to lieutenant at sea on March 27, 1909 followed. At the beginning of the First World War he was a company officer in the torpedo division, now as a lieutenant commander, and then in 1915 moved to the post of commander of the torpedo boat "S 53". Assignments as an admiralty staff officer , a submarine boat training and as a commander of " U93 ", " U 97 " and " U 100 " followed. He experienced the end of the war as a consultant for the inspection of torpedoes and mines.

Friedrich Götting was taken over into the war fleet of the Weimar Republic with the task of inspecting torpedoes and mines, and in 1920 switched to the field of responsibility of the head of the 2nd minesweeping semi-flotilla in the Baltic Sea. In the following year he was assigned to serve in the naval command for six months from April and then in October 1921 as a consultant in the naval defense department , which was then the name of the naval intelligence service . Since September 1921, Korvettenkapitän Reinhold Gadow (1882-1946), who also came from the field of mine clearance, was the department head of this work area. While he was still working in the "intelligence office (N)" - as the naval intelligence service was officially called from the end of 1921 onwards, Götting was promoted to corvette captain in June 1922. A short time later, he moved up to the post of naval adjutant to the Reich Defense Minister Otto Geßler (1875–1955). He replaced the previous naval adjutant Karl Neureuther (1886–1975) on September 1, 1922. Götting exercised this area of ​​responsibility until December 31, 1924 and was then available from January of the following year to the new chief of naval management, Hans Zenker (1870–1932). From the summer of 1925 he was then appointed 1st Admiral Staff Officer in the staff of the Commander in Chief of the Baltic Sea Forces , until in October 1927, when the events and grievances in the Reichswehr Ministry overturned through the machinations of the head of the maritime transport department Walter Lohmann (1878-1930), was brought back. As head of the Wehrmacht Department, it was his job to accompany the urgent renovation process in this area and to prevent further damage. On December 1, 1928 he was promoted to frigate captain and on June 1, 1929 he took over the management of the Wehrmacht department in the Reichswehr Ministry. In this position he was promoted to sea captain in October 1930 and changed to the duties of the commander of the liner "Schleswig Holstein" on October 5, 1931 .

After two years in shipping again, Friedrich Götting was transferred to the post of Commander of Swinoujscie in September 1933 . At the same time as his promotion to rear admiral on October 1, 1934, he changed again to the duties of the inspector of torpedoes and mines, in which he had already worked in 1919. With the assumption of this area of ​​responsibility he was also inspector for the education system of the Navy, which with the now openly operated naval armament policy was of enormous importance for the qualification of the necessary personnel for the Navy . With the redistribution of the work areas within the naval departments in the fall of 1936, he remained in charge of the torpedo inspector from October 1, 1936. Promoted to Vice Admiral in October 1937 , he was entrusted with the duties of inspector of naval communications in the same month. At the same time he was President of the Torpedo Test Command. On December 31, 1939, Götting was officially retired from the Navy. But already made available to the Navy as a second officer on January 1, 1940. Here he was assigned the management of the torpedo weapons office in the Naval Weapons Office of the High Command of the Navy (OKM) . But from June 24th 1040 he was again at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy before he was then deployed on September 1, 1942 as Coastal Commander for the Eastern Baltic Sea and thus at the same time as fortress commander of Gotenhafen . He held this area of ​​responsibility until February 1943 and was then made available again from March to May 1943 before he was retired from active military service on March 31, 1943. In early 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, where he died on January 3, 1946.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 1: A-G. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1988, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 , p. 436f.
  • Erich Gröner u. a .: The German warships 1815-1945 , Vol. 8/2: Outpost boats, auxiliary minesweepers, coastal protection associations (part 2), small combat associations, dinghies , Koblenz (Bernard & Graefe) 1993, p. 533. ISBN 3-7637-4807-5
  • Hans Hildebrand, Formation History and Staffing of the German Armed Forces, 1915–1990, Volume 2, Marine, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, 2000
  • Rankings of the Navy, years 1918 to 1943, Verlag S. Mittler & Sohn, Kiel University Bookstore, 1918 (1921 to 1943)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Deutschlands Admirale 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 1: A-G. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1988, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 , p. 436f.
  2. ↑ Rankings of the Navy, years 1921 to 1922, Verlag S. Mittler & Sohn, Kiel University Bookstore, 1921 (and 1922)
  3. ↑ Rankings of the Navy, years 1921 to 1923, Verlag S. Mittler & Sohn, Kiel University Bookstore, 1921 (1922 and 1923)
  4. ↑ Bernd Remmele, The Lohmann Affair. Secret armaments measures of the Reichsmarine in the twenties, master's thesis at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg i.Br.
  5. ↑ Hans Hildebrand, Formation History and Staffing of the German Armed Forces, 1915–1990, Volume 2, Marine, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, 2000
  6. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Deutschlands Admirale 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 1: A-G. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1988, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 , p. 436f.
personal data
SURNAME Götting, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German admiral
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1946