Heino von Heimburg

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First Lieutenant Heino von Heimburg

Heino Adolf von Heimburg (born October 24, 1889 in Hanover ; † October 1945 near Stalingrad ) was a German naval officer , a successful submarine commander in World War I and, most recently, Vice Admiral in World War II .

Life

origin

Heino was a son of the later Prussian Major General Paul von Heimburg (1851-1936) and his wife Cornelia, née Shadler (* 1861). His brother Erik (1892-1946) was major general in the police.

Military career

Heimburg occurred on April 3, 1907 as a midshipman in the Imperial Navy and completed his training in the ship school ship SMS stone . After the subsequent visit to the Kiel-Düsternbrook naval school , where he was appointed ensign at sea on April 21, 1908 , he first came to the liner SMS Schleswig-Holstein . On September 15, 1910, he was transferred to the liner SMS Hessen . Heimburg was promoted to lieutenant on April 10, 1911 , and from April 28, he was deployed as a watch officer on the small cruiser SMS Geier . In October 1913 Heimburg completed a submarine training and was at the same time adjutant on the rescue ship SMS Vulkan .

When the First World War broke out , Heimburg, promoted to First Lieutenant at Sea on March 22, 1914 , served as an officer on watch on the submarine SM  U A , a boat under construction for Norway . On March 25, 1915, he received his first command of his own with the SM UB 14 , a 127-ton boat of the UB I type . On July 7, 1915, he sank the Italian 10,400 ton armored cruiser Amalfi near Venice with the small boat . He carried out the operation under the Austro- Hungarian flag, a practice of German boats until the beginning of the war between Germany and Italy on August 18, 1916. From July 16 to 24, 1914, he transferred his boat to Bodrum on the Turkish Aegean coast. On September 4, 1915, he sank the Royal Navy submarine HMS E 7 , which had got caught in a submarine network off Nagara on the Dardanelles and was surrounded by a mine barrier, the lieutenant captain Ulrich von Tippelskirch , German commander of the Turkish liner Torgut Reis , the former German armored ship SMS Weißenburg , had laid. As a result, he led the boats in the Mediterranean and Black Seas until the end of 1918 with the boats SM UC 22 (1st in command from July 1, 1916, type UC II , 417 t) and SM UB 68 (1st in command from October 5, 1917, Type UB III , 513 t) successful trade war . In doing so, he succeeded in sinking a total of 21 ships with a tonnage of 55,036  GRT and damaging a further eight ships with a total of 49,699 GRT. He also sank three enemy submarines - the Italian Medusa , the British E 20, and the French Ariane - and was involved in the sinking of E 7 . As the ninth submarine commander, he was awarded the Order Pour le Mérite on August 11, 1917 . From September 7th to October 9th, 1918, he transported the most successful submarine in the world, the SM U 35 , from Cattaro back to Kiel.

Heimburg, promoted to lieutenant captain on April 28, 1918 , was transferred to the Reichsmarine at the end of the war and was initially used as a commander on the T 104 and T 139 torpedo boats . From October 1921 to September 1924 he served as an adjutant at the Swinoujscie Naval Command . Afterwards Heimburg was company commander in the 2nd division of the ship master division Baltic Sea in Stralsund . On October 2, 1925, he came on board the small cruiser Amazone as a navigation officer and was promoted to Corvette Captain on December 1, 1926 . From September 26, 1927, he commanded the II. Division of the ship master division Baltic Sea. On September 24, 1928 he was appointed commander of the IV Naval Artillery Department in Cuxhaven . Two years later he was transferred to the ship of the line Silesia as first officer . In this function he was promoted to frigate captain on October 1, 1932 . In September 1933 he was transferred to Cuxhaven and appointed in command of the fortifications of the Elbe and Weser estuaries. This was followed on July 1, 1934, the promotion to captain at sea . From October 6, 1937 to December 31, 1939 he was a judge at the Reich Court Martial ; in this position he was promoted to rear admiral on August 1, 1939 .

After his work at the Reich Court Martial, he was head of the Bremen Replacement Inspection until the end of August 1942 and at the same time senior officer . As such, he was promoted to Vice Admiral on April 1, 1942. Heimburg was released from his command on September 1, 1942 and initially held at the disposal of the Navy High Command . He was finally adopted and retired on May 31, 1943.

Heimburg was also a lay judge (assessor) at the People's Court . The assessors were appointed directly by the top management of the Nazi government and consisted exclusively of people who the Nazi regime regarded as politically reliable and staunch National Socialists. While he was an assessor, Heimburg was also involved in death sentences. In 1944, during the session of the People's Court in Bielefeld, he participated in four death sentences against employees of the Dürkoppwerke who had listened to foreign broadcasters.

Heimburg was taken prisoner by the Soviets in March 1945 and died in a camp near Stalingrad .

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herzog, p. 143
  2. ↑ Herzog, pp. 120f.
  3. ↑ Herzog, pp. 144f.
  4. ↑ Herzog, p. 150
  5. ^ Judgment of the VGH of August 3, 1944 in copy, Bielefeld City Archive 300-7 no. 154-2.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsmarine. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1929, p. 43.
personal data
SURNAME Heimburg, Heino von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heimburg, Heino Adolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Vice Admiral in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH October 1945
Place of death near Stalingrad , Soviet Union