Gerhard Bing

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Gerhard "Schaske" Bing (born August 4, 1934 in Alsfeld , Hesse , † March 19, 2006 ) was a German flotilla admiral in the German Navy .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1955, Bing joined the German Navy on January 1, 1956 as a member of the first crew I / 1956 . His classmates included Rear Admiral Jürgen Dubois , Flotilla Admiral Konrad Ehrensberger and Vice Admiral Hein-Peter Weyher . After completing his basic training in the Wilhelmshaven naval training company , he was promoted to lieutenant at sea on April 1, 1957 . From October 1957 he completed on-board training on the French school cruiser Jeanne d'Arc and then from July 1958 on the training ship Eider and at the naval school Mürwik , where he was promoted to lieutenant on 12 December 1958 . He then attended from January to June 1959 a submarine hunt training with the US Navy in the Naval Training Center San Diego and served on his return from July 1, 1959 as a communications, tracking and anti-submarine officer on the Escort boat Hummel and the destroyer 5 . On 1 January 1963 he took over in the third speedboat squadron the post of commander of the Jaguar class belonging speedboat Wolf and received as such on 18 June 1964 was promoted to lieutenant commander .

After he had completed the officer course B submarine hunting / torpedo from October 1, 1964, Bing attended from September 1, 1966 to March 31, 1968 Naval War College (Ecole supérieure de guerre navale) in France . During this time he was promoted to corvette captain on December 7, 1967 and was then from May 1, 1968 to February 20, 1969 graduate of a training as first officer for guided missile destroyers in the US Navy at Naval Station Norfolk . After his return, from March 22, 1969, the first officer (IO) belonged to the commissioning crew of the destroyer Lütjens of class 103 , which is also known as the Lütjens class and is named after Admiral Günther Lütjens , who took the battleship on May 27, 1941 Bismarck went down. After he was promoted to frigate captain on April 15, 1971 , he moved to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn on October 16, 1971 , where he was assistant officer Fü M VII 3 in the naval command and thus in the staff department Ships and Weapons Systems der Navy (Fü M VII) responsible for the system control for the areas of destroyer and supply flotilla.

Bing was not only first officer from 1969 to 1971, but also fourth in command of the destroyer Lütjens between 1974 and 1977

Frigate captain Bing then returned on October 1, 1974 as the successor to sea captain Egon Meyer as fourth in command on board the destroyer Lütjens and remained in this role until March 31, 1977, after which sea captain Klaus Dingeldein was his successor there. During this time, he was promoted to captain at sea on April 1, 1975. After this assignment he began training as a naval attaché on April 1, 1977 and was transferred to the embassy in France on October 1, 1977 . On October 14, 1980 he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of France ( Ordre national du Mérite ) .

After his return, Bing took over the position of system control group leader in the naval support command (MUKdo) in Wilhelmshaven on April 1, 1980 and, after his promotion to flotilla admiral on October 1, 1983, was also head of the system support department in the naval support command. In this function, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on August 31, 1984 . On January 1, 1985, Gerhard Bing returned to the Federal Ministry of Defense and, as the successor to Flotilla Admiral Klaus-Jürgen Steindorff in the local command staff of the Navy (FüM), was head of the staff department Fü M VII. In this position, he was appointed on March 14, 1991 with the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany awarded. With the reorganization of FüM, he took over the staff department Fü M II on October 1, 1992. On March 31, 1993, he retired.

On November 26th, 1960 he married Hella Heimbel.

Publications

  • Naval armament on the way to “Flotte 2005” , in: Wehrtechnik , p. 4 ff., Volume 23, Issues 6–12, Wehr und Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft, 1991
  • Priority for preservation of combat values. Armament for the Navy based on the modular principle , in: Europäische Sicherheit , p. 404 ff., Volume 40, Issues 7-12, ES Mittler, 1991
  • Maintain technological capabilities over the long term. Considerations and ideas of the navy for the preservation of national key maritime industries , in: Wehrtechnik , p. 7 ff., Volume 25, issues 7-12, Wehr und Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft, 1993

Background literature

  • Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Industry 1990/91 , p. 24, Bernhard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1990, ISBN 3-7637-5865-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ "Jaguar" class speed boats (140) (Navy website)
  2. ↑ Destroyer of the "Lütjens" class (103B) (Homepage of the Navy)
  3. ^ Marine-Rundschau : Zeitschrift für Seewesen , p. 114, volumes 82-83, Bernard & Graefe, 1985
personal data
SURNAME Bing, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaske (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German flotilla admiral
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Alsfeld , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 2006