Heinz Bonatz

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Hermann Leopold Ludwig Eugen Hans Heinz Bonatz (born  August 18, 1897 in Witzenhausen ; †  February 11, 1981 ) was a German naval officer . During the time of the Second World War he was a sea ​​captain until January 1944, chief of the B-Dienst (observation service) of the German navy .

Life

Heinz Bonatz joined the Imperial Army as a war volunteer in 1914 , but switched to the Imperial Navy in April 1915 . After various training commands on the warships Freya , Oldenburg , Ostfriesland and Nassau , he was promoted to lieutenant on June 17, 1917 and served as a watch and radio officer on the large torpedo boat G 89 from September 1918 until the end of the war . In October 1919 he was released from the Provisional Reichsmarine , but already on July 1, 1923 for the newly established Reichsmarinereactivated. He was promoted to first lieutenant in the sea on April 1, 1925. In 1933 he was promoted to lieutenant captain , in 1937 to corvette captain and finally in 1941 to sea captain.

From September 1932 to February 1934 he was in command of the torpedo boat "Kondor" - first with the rank of first lieutenant at sea , then promoted to captainleutnant .

In August 1939 he became 4th Admiral Staff Officer on the staff of the Marine Group Command West. From November 1941 to January 1944 he was chief of Department III radio reconnaissance ( Skl Chief MND III), called B-Dienst for short . He was then Chief of the Naval Emergency Staff in the High Command of the Navy (OKM) (February 1944 – July 1944), then Head of the Press and Film Department (MIP) at the OKM and finally from March 1945 until the end of the war, Port Commander Rotterdam.

From June 1945 he headed the German Marine Command Holland (later referred to as the Higher German Naval Officer, Holland ), a German naval unit that was used in the Netherlands until January 1946 to disarm the German coastal fortifications and to clear mines in the coastal areas. In August 1946 he was transferred from the British Civil Internment Camp No. 6 (CIC 6) in Hamburg-Neuengamme released.

Fonts

  • The German naval radio reconnaissance 1914–1945 (=  contributions to defense research . Volume XX / XXI). Defense and Knowledge Publishing Company, Darmstadt 1970.
  • Sea warfare in the ether: the achievements of naval radio reconnaissance 1939–1945 . Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn, Herford 1981, ISBN 3-8132-0120-1 .

literature

  • David Kahn : Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939-1943 . revised ed. London: Frontline Books; Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-59114-807-4 (English, first edition: Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1991).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Griseldis Ehrhardt: Estate of Heinz Bonatz - N 744 - 1939–1975 . In: The Federal Archives . The Federal Archives, Koblenz. October 1992. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
  2. ^ Jürgen Rohwer : Heinz Bonatz † . In: Marine-Rundschau 78 (1981), p. 240.
  3. ↑ Bonatz, Heinz . In: German National Library - Catalog of the German National Library . The German National Library. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ Friedrich L. Bauer : Deciphered secrets. Methods and maxims of cryptology . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Springer, Berlin et al. 2000, ISBN 3-540-67931-6 , pp.  221 .
  5. ^ Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939–1945. Structure, commitment, staffing. tape 3 . Podzun, Bad Nauheim 1964, main chapter XXIX personal details 291, p. 28 , Bonatz, Heinz (loose-leaf collection, deliveries 1–27, 1956–1964).
  6. ↑ Hermann Jung: The German prisoners of war in the custody of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (= Erich Maschke [Hrsg.]: On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War . Volume XII). Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1966, Part II The German prisoners of war in custody in the Netherlands 1945–1947, Chapter IV: The naval units of the Captain of the Sea Bonatz 1945–1946, p. 227-232 .
  7. ^ Heinz Bonatz: The German naval radio reconnaissance 1914-1945 (=  contributions to defense research . Volume XX / XXI). Defense and Knowledge Publishing Company, Darmstadt 1970, p. 9 .
personal data
SURNAME Bonatz, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonatz, Hermann Leopold Ludwig Eugen Hans Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer during World War II
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Witzenhausen
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1981