Götz von Mirbach

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Erich Werner Siegfried Götz Freiherr von Mirbach (born September 12, 1915 in Berlin-Charlottenburg , † August 6, 1968 in Hamburg ) was a German naval officer , most recently corvette captain of the Navy .

Life

Götz von Mirbach was born as the son of a lieutenant colonel a. D.

He took on the side of Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War in part. In October 1937 he joined the speedboats , initially as an ensign at sea . During the Second World War, Mirbach served in the 1st Schnellbootflotilla and was used in the fight against Allied ships in the English Channel. He succeeded in sinking a British destroyer. His younger cousin, First Lieutenant Emmerich von Mirbach, served on U-595.

Mirbach was later appointed corvette captain and served as commander of the 9th Schnellbootflotille. In 1944 he was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves . Under the command of Bernd Klug , he won the Battle of Lyme Bay in 1944 .

Mirbach took part in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki , Finland. He sailed in the German team with Wolfgang Elsner , Andreas Howaldt , Hans Kadelbach and Paul-Heinrich Lange in the six-meter class and reached 10th place.

Awards

  • Iron Cross (1939)
    • 2nd class on April 30, 1940
    • 1st class on May 28, 1940
  • Service award 4th class on April 5, 1939
  • German cross in gold on November 10, 1942 as a lieutenant commander on S-48 in the 4th Schnellbootflotille
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
    • Knight's Cross on August 14, 1940 as first lieutenant at sea and commander of the S-21 speedboat in the 1st Schnellbootflotille
    • Eichenlaub on June 14, 1944 as a lieutenant captain and head of the 9th Schnellbootflotille
  • Speedboat War Badge with Diamonds (June 14, 1944)
  • Mentioned in the Wehrmacht report on April 28, 1944

literature

  • Manfred dried: The Ritterkreuzträger the above water forces the Navy Band 2: L-Z . Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1996, ISBN 978-3-7648-2497-6 .
  • Clemens Range: The knight's cross bearers of the Navy . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 978-3-87943-355-1 .
  • Fritjof Schaulen: Eichenlaubträger 1940 - 1945 Contemporary history in color II Ihlefeld - Primozic . Pour le Mérite, Selent 2004, ISBN 978-3-932381-21-8 .
  • Franz Thomas: The Eichenlaub carrier 1939-1945 Volume 2: L-Z . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1998, ISBN 978-3-7648-2300-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Extract from the Götz von Mirbach family book
  2. ↑ a b Corvette Captain Götz Freiherr von Mirbach. In: Peter Paul Möbius : Schnellboote. K. Curtius, Berlin 1943, p. 311.
  3. ^ Olympics . sports-reference. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b c Dörr 1996, p. 62.
  5. ↑ a b Thomas 1998, p. 86.
  6. ↑ Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 312.
  7. ↑ Fellgiebel 2000, p. 312.
  8. ↑ Fellgiebel 2000, p. 84.
personal data
SURNAME Mirbach, Götz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mirbach, Götz Freiherr von; Mirbach, Erich Werner Siegfried Götz Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1968
Place of death Hamburg