Günter Poser

Günter Hans Josef Poser (* 23. September 1916 in Berlin , † 3. June 2003 in Bonn-Röttgen ) was a German officer , most recently Rear Admiral of the German Navy of the Armed Forces . During the Second World War he was in command of the submarines U 59 , U 432 and U 202 . In the post-war period he was the Federal Republic of Germany's military attaché for Japan and South Korea, and until 1973 he was a high-ranking NATO functionary and later, for a short time, executive vice-chairman of the party The Republicans .

biography

Before 1945

After serving in the Reich Labor Service from January to March 1936, Poser joined the ship master department of the Navy in Stralsund on April 3, 1936 as an officer candidate . His on-board training took place from June 1936 to April 1937 on the Schleswig-Holstein liner . He then attended various weapons courses at the Mürwik Naval School until April 1938 .

From October 1938 to mid-August 1939, Poser completed an observer course at the See Aviation School in Burg . He then worked as an observer and company officer in the 1/506 squadron in List on Sylt until December 1940 , where he was promoted to lieutenant at sea on October 1 . At the same time Poser acted from April to May 1940 as a liaison officer to the Air Force in the Trondheim division headquarters . In January 1941 Poser began submarine training in Gdynia , Kiel and Mürwik , which lasted until July 1941. On July 7, 1941, he was employed as a watch officer on U 432 . He held this position until mid-November of the same year. He then attended a commanding course with the 26th U-Flotilla in Pillau until mid-December 1941 . On December 16, 1941 Poser was appointed in command of the training boat U 59, with which he did not, however, go on patrol. On July 15, 1942, he gave up on-board command and was appointed commander of U 202 in August 1942.

This type of ship sank U 202 on June 2, 1943 near Cape Farewell

On February 1, 1943, he was promoted to lieutenant captain. His ship was sunk on June 2, 1943 at Cape Farewell , making him a prisoner of war , which lasted four years and during which he was in England and Canada. Of the 48 crew members, 30 survived the sinking.

After 1945

After his release and return to Germany, Poser worked as a correspondent from August 1947. From 1947 to 1955 he was an administrative and personnel officer at the Deutsche Landesrentenbank in Bonn . On 7 December 1955 he joined the army as a lieutenant commander of the German navy one; he worked as an advisor to the State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense . Until mid-September 1957 he was prepared for the military attaché service. From September 16, 1957 to the end of February 1963, he worked as a naval, army and air force attaché at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tokyo ; at the same time he was also a military attaché in South Korea. On September 1, 1959 he was promoted to frigate captain and on January 4, 1963 to sea captain. On September 30, 1964, he was promoted to Flotilla Admiral. After his return, Poser worked from March 1963 to 1969 in the Federal Ministry of Defense as a consultant, later as a subdivision manager in the military intelligence. From 1964 he replaced Ernst Ferber as head of the Fü B / S II sub-department. Poser headed the Fü S II sub-department until May 1969 and was also the administrative chairman of the Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) subordinate to his department .

He then worked from July 16, 1969 until the end of his service as a department head at the International Military Staff (IMS) of NATO in Brussels , where he was promoted to Rear Admiral on February 27, 1970 . There he took over the management of the intelligence center . On September 30, 1973 Poser was dismissed at his own request in protest against the German Ostpolitik under Willy Brandt .

After retiring from active service, he continued to be involved in the armed forces, for example in the armed forces work group for national defense . He is also committed to the German Africa Foundation, which is closely related to the CDU, and published various articles in its series from 1980 to 1985 on assessing various African countries. In 1983 he took part in the Alternative Strategies Hearing for the CDU / CSU in the Defense Committee of the German Bundestag.

In 1986 Poser founded a Germany party , the core of which was made up of high-ranking former officers of the Bundeswehr and hardly appeared in public. In the first quarter of 1987 Poser and his Germany party joined the party Die Republikaner . In a programmatic article in the party newspaper "Der Republikaner", Issue 4 1987, Poser, who was introduced as a former naval aviator, submarine commander, and NATO and Bundeswehr officer, explained under the heading: "Forcing the change! Why I became a republican" that one Fixation on the German past, especially on the "twelve years of National Socialist rule", meant a decline in "intellectual and political culture" and thus prevented German unity. The Kohl government is doing nothing to "begin decriminalizing German culture, history and its people." That same year he became executive vice federal chairman of the Republicans . He held this position for a year. Then he withdrew from the party. He later belonged to the leadership of the right-wing extremist German Study Association . The Militarization Information According to he published in the right-wing publications Independent news and nation and Europe .

Poser was married. His marriage had three children.

Fonts

• Soviet Union military power 1977 . Olzog Verlag , 1977.
• China and the Pacific . In: Marine-Forum, May 1978.
• Japan's self-defense. Comments on the Japanese White Paper . In: Marine-Forum, April 1978.
• The security situation in the Western Pacific . In: Marine-Rundschau, Zeitschrift für Seewesen, Volume 75 ES Mittler., 1978.
• The changes in the military strategic balance of power . In: Göttinger Arbeitskreis Hrsg. (1979): Studies on the question of Germany, Vol. 3 Concept of détente and détente policy in East and West. Pp. 61–72 (proceedings of the conference on April 21, 1978 in Mainz).
• The NATO: career, tasks and structure of the North Atlantic Alliance . Olzog, 1979.
• Threatened Western Security: Conclusion of a Worldwide Soviet Sea Strategy 1979.
• Military Power of the Soviet Union 1980: Data, Trends, Analysis . G. Olzog, 1980.
• with Uwe Vogel Africa and German security . German Africa Foundation , 1980.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Katharina Behrend: NPD - REP: the role of nationalist movements in the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany using the example of NPD and republicans in historical comparison . Roderer, Regensburg 1996, p. 125.
2. ↑ Günter Poser in the Munzinger archive , accessed on January 30, 2012 ( beginning of the article freely available)
3. ^ ^{A b} Alfred Biehle : Alternative strategies: the hearing in the defense committee of the German Bundestag, the written reports and statements . Bernard and Graefe, Koblenz 1986, p. 985.
4. ↑ Albrecht Charisius, Julius Mader: No longer secret: development, system and working method of the imperialist German secret service , Military Publishing House of the GDR 1969, p. 262. Outline can be viewed at google.books
5. ↑ Thomas M. Walde, ND-Report , R. Piper 1971, p. 148.
6. ↑ Der Spiegel No. 45 of November 4, 1968, p. 31.
7. ↑ Thomas M. Walde, ND-Report , R. Piper 1971, p. 148
8. ↑ Hans-Gerd Jaschke : The Republicans. Profiles of a far-right party . Dietz Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 81.
9. ↑ Files of the Working Group for National Defense , Bonn District Court No. 3206 - Poser takes part in the general meetings in 1975 and 1981 and in 1980 organizes a study trip to South Africa, South West Africa, Transkei and Zimbabwe.
10. ^ Alfred Biehle, Alternative strategies: the hearing in the Defense Committee of the German Bundestag, the written reports and statements . Bernard and Graefe, Koblenz 1986, p. 19
11. ^ Leo A. Müller , Republicans, NPD, DVU, List D ... , Lamuv Verlag 1989, p. 55
12. ↑ Peter Guggemos, Political Attitudes of Republican Voters: Supply and Demand on the Right Edge , Ergon Verlag 2000, p. 194
13. ^ Siegfried Jäger: Right print. Berlin - Bonn 1988, pp. 227-229
14. ↑ Claus Leggewie, Ulrich Chaussy, Volker Hartel, Meral Rüssing, Volker A. Zahn, Die Republikaner: a phantom takes shape , Rotbuch Verlag 1990, p. 68
15. ^ Anton Maegerle , Stephan Braun : Albrecht Jebens. A "jack of all trades" . In: Stephan Braun, Daniel Hörsch (ed.): Right networks - a danger . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4153-X , p. 108.
16. ↑ Militarization Information Center, April 2008: MAD in Germany. (PDF; 121 kB) Retrieved January 28, 2012 . 
17. ^ Dermot Bradley: Germany's Generals and Admirals: Part VI / b - Volume 3: The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr 1955–1999 . Laegeler - Quiel, Biblio-Verlag 2006, ISBN 978-3764823825 , p. 559.