Gerhardt Böhmig

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Gerhardt Gustav Böhmig even Gerhard Böhmig, (* 17th July 1901 in Dresden , † 15. July 1994 ) was a German officer of the Navy of the Armed Forces , most recently Captain and Senior Government .

Life

Gerhard Böhmig came after his Abitur in early April 1921 as a midshipman in the Imperial Navy and received his basic training at the training ship Niobe . In 1925 and 1926 he was adjutant in the rank of lieutenant at sea on the liner Alsace . He then switched to torpedo weapons , where he stayed until 1937. In 1933/34 he served as commander of a speedboat in the 1st Schnellbootflotilla. When he was promoted to lieutenant captain in 1934, he was in command of the G10 torpedo boat until 1936 .

From April 1937 to October 1938 he was an assistant in the press department in the high command of the Wehrmacht .

He then became the commandant of the destroyer Z 6 , which he took over in Wilhelmshaven . At the end of February 1940 he was involved in the Wikinger company and from April 1940 in the Weser Exercise Company in Warship Group 2 under Hellmuth Heye . Until November 1940 he remained in command of the ship in the rank of corvette captain . This was followed by assignments as Admiralstabsoffizier until June 1943 , including in 1940 as 1st Admiralstabsoffizier with the sea ​​commandant Drontheim and in 1941 as III. Admiral staff officer on the battleship Bismarck . From June 1943 to October 1944 he was in command of the light cruiser Nuremberg . In November 1944 he was briefly deputy commander of the armored ship Germany . Then he was chief of staff of the torpedo inspection until the end of the war.

After the war, Böhmig moved to the shipping administration. From 1952 he was the operations director of the Kiel Canal and board member of the Kiel-Holtenau Canal Office . He made a name for himself in the aforementioned positions and celebrated his 40th anniversary in April 1961.

In 1969 he was awarded the Order of Merit awarded first class.

Works (selection)

  • Blue boys tell… . Commissioned by the High Command of the Navy , Hans Riegler, Berlin , 1938.
  • 3. “Lohs” submarine flotilla . who was Johannes Lohs? . In: Die Wehrmacht , issue 19, 1937.
  • Johannes Lohs . In: Marine-Rundschau , Volume 43, Issue 1, 1938, p. 24 ff.
  • 1919 A ​​fleet sank - 1939 A fleet was created In: Die Wehrmacht, Heft 13, Berlin 1939, p. 8 ff.
  • 1918–1928–1938, two decades in the Navy . In: Yearbook of the German Navy, 1939, p. 88 ff.
  • The Navy in the training year 1938/39 . In: Yearbook of the German Navy, 1940, pp. 88 ff.

literature

  • Hans Hildebrand: Gerhard Böhmig (July 17, 1901 - July 15, 1994) . In: Collection on the history, organization and staffing of the German navies from the 17th to the 20th century, naval, engineering, naval artillery, liaison and medical officers of the Reich and Kriegsmarine and documents on Lohmann / Hildebrand: letters Be - Boh , Signature: BArch , MSG 225/121.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marine Review . 1938, p. 78 ( google.de [accessed on March 28, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b Hansa: Central organ published weekly for shipping, shipbuilding, port . 1961, p. 648 ( google.de [accessed on March 28, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b c Jak Mallmann Showell: Hitler's Navy: A Reference Guide to the Kriegsmarine 1935–1945 . Seaforth Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-78346-917-8 ( google.de [accessed March 28, 2020]).
  4. ^ Claudia Bartels, Heike Fortmann-Petersen, Karen Peter: 1938. Register . Walter de Gruyter, 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-095429-6 , p. 50 ( google.de [accessed on March 28, 2020]).
  5. ^ Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke: German Destroyers of World War II: Warships of the Kriegsmarine . Seaforth Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-84832-193-9 , pp. 85 ( google.de [accessed on March 28, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Bodo Herzog: The German Navy in Combat 1939-1945: a documentation in pictures . Podzun-Verlag, 1969, p. 26 ( google.de [accessed on March 28, 2020]).
  7. ^ Gordon Williamson: German Light Cruisers 1939-45 . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-78096-666-3 , pp. 40 ( google.de [accessed on March 28, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Kiel Canal: Kiel Canal . 1961, p. 104 ( google.de [accessed on March 28, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Kiel Canal: Kiel Canal . 1961, p. 103 ( google.de [accessed on March 28, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Traffic Gazette . Verkehrs- und Wirtschafts-Verlag., 1969 ( google.de [accessed on March 28, 2020]).
  11. ↑ Germany Kriegsmarine High Command: Marineverordnungsblatt . 1938, p. 423 ( google.de [accessed on March 28, 2020]).
  12. ↑ Marine Review . 1938, p. 24 ff . ( google.de [accessed on March 29, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Böhmig, Gerhardt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böhmig, Gerhardt Gustav (full name); Böhmig, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and senior government councilor
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1994