Günther von der Forst

Günther von der Forst ( December 17, 1897 - March 24, 1982 ) was a German naval officer , most recently a rear admiral in World War II .

Life

Von der Forst joined the Imperial Navy with crew I / 16 and served on torpedo boats , including as an officer on watch on SMS V 69 in the Flemish destroyer flotilla.

After the end of the First World War , Forst remained in active service and was accepted into the Reichsmarine . In 1931 he became the commander of the torpedo boat T 156 in the 2nd torpedo boat semi-flotilla and in 1933 the commander of the flotilla leader boat T 196 . From 1935 he took part in the leadership assistant course, the admiral staff training of the Navy .

In 1940 Forst was in command of the Avisos Grille . In the further course of the Second World War he served in several offices in Norway , initially briefly with the admiral of the Norwegian south coast . From July 1940 to May 1941 he was in command of the Stavanger naval defense and was then designated as the commander of the Murmansk naval defense . Since this agency was not set up, he served as senior quartermaster in the staff of the commanding admiral Norway before he became chief of staff at the commanding admiral Aegean in February 1943 . On April 1, 1944, he was promoted to Rear Admiral. On May 1, 1944, he became Chief of Staff at the Naval High Command in the Baltic Sea and remained there until the end of the war. then he was held as a prisoner of war until December 1946.

After his death he was buried in the mountain cemetery in Berchtesgaden .

literature

• G. Hartlieb. Obituary. In: MOH-Mitteilungen / MOV-Nachrichten 5-1982, p. 30 *

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Lohmann , Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume III, main chapter XXIX, chapter 1, p. 79