Friedrich Kemnade
Friedrich Kemnade (born December 12, 1911 in Schwarmstedt ; † January 29, 2008 in Hamburg ) was a German naval officer , most recently Rear Admiral of the German Navy .
Military career
Navy
In 1935 Kemnade went to sea as a lieutenant on the light cruisers Königsberg and Nürnberg . In 1936 he became the commander of a speedboat in the 1st Schnellboot-Halbflotille and in 1937 a first lieutenant in the sea . At that time he was also an officer teacher at the torpedo school . In 1939 he became first torpedo officer and adjutant on the light cruiser Emden . In the course of the Second World War , Kemnade was mostly used in the Mediterranean as commander of the 3rd Schnellbootflotille . At the end of the war he was corvette captain and assistant in the high command of the navy .
Federal Navy
Kemnade joined the German Navy as a frigate captain in 1956 . There he was a clerk in the staff of the German Military Representative at the NATO Military Committee . In 1958 he became the commander of the speedboat flotilla of the German Navy. In 1959 he was promoted to sea captain and in 1960 commander of the naval forces Baltic Sea Access ( COMNAVGERBALT ). In 1961 he headed the operations department in the fleet command, whose commander also exercised the NATO function of Flag Officer Germany . In 1963 Kemnade became Chief of Staff there. From 1963 he was commander of the naval department at the command academy of the Bundeswehr and was promoted to flotilla admiral in 1964 . In 1968 he became commander in Defense Area I in Kiel and German authorized representative for the Allied Forces Northern Europe . In 1968 he was promoted to Rear Admiral and retired on September 30, 1970.
Awards
- Olympic Medal of Honor
- Service award IV class on October 2, 1936
- Iron Cross (1939) 2nd class on April 30, 1940
- Black Wound Badge on September 20, 1940
- Iron Cross (1939) 1st Class on December 24, 1940
- Schnellboot war badge on March 11, 1941
- German cross in gold on February 2, 1942
- Silver Italian Medal of Valor on May 21, 1942 and January 24, 1943
- Mentioned in the Wehrmacht report on June 18, 1942
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Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with oak leaves
- Knight's Cross on July 23, 1942
- Oak leaves on May 27, 1943 (249th award)
- Fleet war badge on January 2, 1943
- Italian War Merit Cross on March 17, 1943
- Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1970
literature
- Clemens Range : The knight's cross bearers of the Kriegsmarine , Stuttgart, Motorbuch Verlag, ISBN 3-87943-355-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Kemnade in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 1939–1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 435.
- ↑ The High Command of the Wehrmacht announces… The German Wehrmacht Report, Volume 2 1942–1943 , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1982, ISBN 3-7648-1282-6 , p. 165
Jens Matzen (until 1958) | Friedrich Kemnade (1958–1960) | Carl-Heinz Birnbacher (1960–1962) | Bernd Klug (1962–1964) | Jens Matzen (1964–1968) | Hans-Helmut Klose (1968–1970) | Hans-Otto Rieve (1970–1973) | Klaus-Jürgen Thäter (1973–1975) | Gustav Carl Liebig (1975–1978) | Hans-Jochen Meyer-Höper (1978–1981) | Heinrich Schuur (1981–1985) | Jürgen-Friedrich Geier (1986–1987) | Hans Frank (1987-1989) | Klaus Hecker (1989–1993) | Hubert Haß (1993–1996) Jens-Volker Kronisch (1996–1999) | Henning Hoops (1999-2004) | Heinrich Lange (2004–2005) | Matthias Kähler (2005-2006)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kemnade, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German naval officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwarmstedt |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 2008 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |