Gustav Kieseritzky

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Gustav Kieseritzky (born September 22, 1893 in Rendsburg ; † November 19, 1943 near Kerch , Soviet Union ) was a German Vice Admiral in World War II .

Life

Kieseritzky occurred on 1 April 1912 as a midshipman in the Imperial Navy and initially completed his basic training at the Great cruiser Vineta before the Naval Academy Mürwik came and there on April 12, 1913 Midshipman was appointed. After the outbreak of World War I , he was transferred to the large liner Friedrich der Große on August 9, 1914 and was promoted to lieutenant at sea on March 22, 1915. From April 25 to October 16, 1917, he was posted to the high seas staff in the meantime, on Christmas Day, promoted to lieutenant at sea . From October 17 to November 26, 1918, he completed a corresponding course at the submarine school, which was shortened by the end of the war. For his work during the war Kieseritzky received the Hanseatic Cross Lübeck and the Iron Crescent in addition to the two classes of the Iron Cross and the Friedrich August Cross .

After the war he was used as a flag lieutenant on the small cruiser Strasbourg until November 24, 1919 . As a result, Kieseritzky was in the IV. Baltic Minesweeping Flotilla as an officer on watch until July 11, 1920 , then as a commander in the 7th Baltic Minesweeping Flotilla and belonged to the III tribe until August 22, 1920. Flotilla. For more than a year, Kieseritzky acted until November 9, 1921 as the commander of the 6th Semi-Flotilla and then until March 30, 1924 as a teacher at the lock test command in Kiel . As such, he had become a lieutenant captain on September 1, 1922 . From March 31, 1924 to September 24, 1925, Kieseritzky served as a watch officer on the liner Hanover and was then active in the naval budget department (E) of the naval command until October 3, 1928 . As a company commander he was employed at the Friedrichsort Naval School until April 8, 1931 , and there on October 1, 1930, corvette captain .

Kieseritzky was placed at the disposal of the chief of the naval station of the Baltic Sea from April 9 to September 23, 1931, and he was then deployed as 4th Admiral Staff Officer at the naval command. From August 1, 1933 to September 30, 1934, he served as a naval liaison officer to Military District Command I ( Königsberg ). As First Officer Kieseritzky was on 4 October 1934 to 25 September 1935 on the battleship Schleswig-Holstein , then came to Baubelehrung the Admiral Graf Spee and was in service, armored ship on January 6, 1936 First Officer on board. As early as March 24, 1936, the frigate captain was transferred (since January 1, 1936) as head of the domestic department to the Reich Ministry of War or the High Command of the Wehrmacht . Here he became a sea ​​captain on June 1, 1937 . As such, Kieseritzky took over command of the Schleswig-Holstein liner from June 13, 1938 to April 24, 1939 , in order then to come to the naval intelligence inspection as chief of staff.

Here he remained beyond the beginning of World War II until June 20, 1940. For almost six months he acted as port and sea ​​commander in Brest , then was in command of the Bretagne naval defense and as such was promoted to rear admiral on September 1, 1941 . On June 15, 1942, he was relieved of his post and shortly thereafter, on June 23, 1942, he was appointed Coast Commander German Bight . His last post was that of Commanding Admiral Black Sea from February 7, 1943. As such, he was promoted to Vice Admiral on March 1, 1943 and was awarded the German Cross in Gold on October 20, 1943 . Kieseritzky was killed in a Soviet air raid in the course of the Kerch-Eltigen operation near Kamysh-Burun. Posthumously he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on November 20, 1943 . His name and date of birth and death are immortalized on the tombstone of his wife at the Kiel North Cemetery .

His son Gustav Kieseritzky (1921–1992) was chief government director in Kiel and a member of the Corps Palaiomarchia-Masovia.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 2: HO. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1989, ISBN 3-7648-2481-6 , pp. 227-228
  • Werner Rahn, Gerhard Schreiber: War Diary of the Naval War Command 1939–1945, Volume 51, November 1943. Facsimile Edition, on behalf of the Military History Research Office, ES Mittler and Son, Berlin – Bonn – Hamburg, ISBN 978-3813-2065-17 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reichswehr Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsmarine. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1929, p. 45.
  2. ↑ a b Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 1939–1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 440.
  3. ↑ Werner Rahn, Gerhard Schreiber: War diary of the naval war command 1939-1945. Volume 51, November 1943, p. 436.
personal data
SURNAME Kieseritzky, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Vice Admiral in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Rendsburg
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1943
Place of death near Kerch , Soviet Union