Hans Adam (naval officer)

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Hans Adam (* 5. March 1883 in Wesel , † 23. June 1948 in Dusseldorf ) was a German naval officer , most recently Captain and the World War I submarine - Commander .

Life

Adam came on 10 April 1901 as a midshipman in the Imperial navy one, completed his basic training at the training ship SMS Stein and then came to the Naval Academy, where he on 22 April 1902 Midshipman was appointed. After successful completion, he was transferred to the liner SMS Wettin and on September 29, 1904, he was promoted to lieutenant at sea . As such, Adam was a company officer in the 2nd Sailor Division from October 1, 1905 to March 31, 1906 and then an officer on watch on the small cruiser SMS Ariadne . In the same position he was transferred to the great cruiser SMS Friedrich Carl on September 23, 1906 , on which he was promoted to lieutenant at sea on April 27, 1907 . This was followed by uses on board the small cruiser SMS Lübeck as well as on SMS König Wilhelm , before Adam was made available for the inspection of the torpedo system on October 1, 1910 and he went through a submarine training. He was then assigned to the submarine weapon and initially used as an officer on watch. With his promotion to lieutenant captain on March 22, 1913, Adam was appointed head of the 5th submarine flotilla and commander of the D 10 torpedo boat .

When the First World War broke out, Adam initially retained command, briefly commanded the U- 23 submarine in November / December 1914 and was transferred to Pola in the Mediterranean in March 1915 as head of the "Pola submarine special" command Assembling of the first submarines transferred from Germany by rail to Pola or monitored. On July 1, 1915, the “Pola U-Boat Half-Flotilla” was formed from the Pola Special Command or the submarines that had meanwhile been relocated to the Mediterranean Sea, with Adam still in charge. When Korvettenkapitän Waldemar Kophamel took over command of the U-Flotilla Pola , which was formed on November 18, 1915, from the previous U-Flotilla Pola , Adam returned to Germany and became the commander of U 82 . Adam and his crew were able to sink or damage enemy ship space of over 100,000 GRT . This makes him one of the most successful submarine commanders of the First World War. In April 1918 he became head of the Constantinople submarine semi-flotilla . After the war, they took leave Adam and placed him on 18 November 1919 with the simultaneous presentation of the character as a lieutenant commander retired.

After the beginning of the Second World War , Adam was reactivated on June 1, 1940 and initially made available to the 1st U-Teaching Division in Neustadt . One month later he was assigned to the 25th U-Flotilla , which at that time was stationed in Memel and served as a training flotilla . As early as August 19, 1940, he was transferred to the Stettin submarine base and from November 14, 1940 to February 3, 1941, initially made available to the commander of the submarines and the commanding admiral of the North Sea station . Adam was then appointed head of the Rotterdam branch of the armaments inspection of the Netherlands and as such was promoted to frigate captain vV on April 1, 1942 and to captain at sea zV on November 1, 1944 . Adam was released from this post on November 15, 1944, made available and given leave of absence. On February 28, 1945 his zV position was canceled and Adam finally retired.

Awards

literature

  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War Volume 1: AG , Biblio Verlag Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2505-7 , pp. 3-4
  • Andreas Michelsen : The U-Boat War 1914-1918 , v. Hase & Koehler Verlag, Leipzig 1925

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It started with the small UC - minelayer boats used UC 12 , UC 13 , UC 14 and UC 15 and the even smaller, but also with two torpedo tubes equipped UB 14 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy , Ed .: Marinekabinett , Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1918, p. 34
personal data
SURNAME Adam, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer and submarine commander in World War I.
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1948
Place of death Dusseldorf