Heinz Neukirchen

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Neukirchen's maritime power in the mirror of history is based on Meurer's naval war history in outline from 1925.

Heinz Neukirchen , actually Heinrich Neukirchen (born January 13, 1915 in Duisburg , † December 8, 1986 in Rostock ) was an officer in the Navy , Vice Admiral in the People's Navy of the GDR and President of the Maritime Transport and Port Management Directorate . In addition, he wrote several maritime books.

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After secondary school, the son of a small farmer and greengrocer completed a traineeship from 1931 to 1932 and then worked for a year as a freelancer for the Düsseldorfer Nachrichten . From 1935 Neukirchen served in the Navy and was a member of the crew of the light cruiser Cologne, participating in the Spanish Civil War , for which he was awarded the Spanish Cross in bronze. From 1939 to 1940 he was a boatman in charge of port protection. Following various ensign courses, Neukirchen served as an officer on watch on the Ostmark mine ship from 1943 to 1944 . In the last year of the war he was a first lieutenant at sea in command of a submarine fighter in Norway. In addition, Neukirchen was from 1944 National Socialist command officer and 1945 battery chief in the marine infantry. From 1945 to 1949 he was a Soviet prisoner of war . From 1948 to 1949 he attended the Antifa Central School in Krasnogorsk and worked there as an assistant.

After joining the NDPD in 1949, he worked until 1950 as an employee or political manager of the NDPD in Mecklenburg. After that he was deputy chairman of the NDPD state executive committee in Berlin for one year and until October 1951 Berlin representative in the People's Chamber of the GDR.

After joining the armed organs on March 1, 1951, Neukirchen was initially from May 1, 1951 in the rank of Chief Inspector of the Maritime Police until July 31, 1954, Chief of Staff of the Maritime Police and from July 1, 1952 of the People's Police . During this time he was appointed Rear Admiral on October 1, 1952 . After serving as Chief of Staff, he attended the Naval War Academy of the USSR until 1956 . After his return he served as Deputy Chief of the Naval Forces / People's Navy and Chief of Staff of the People's Navy Command until 1961. In 1961 he left the NDPD and joined the SED . He was initially a candidate , from 1963 a member of the SED .

During Wilhelm Ehm's studies from 1961 to 1963 at the Soviet Naval War Academy, Neukirchen was entrusted with the management of the People's Navy and during this time was a member of the College of the Ministry of National Defense. After Ehm's return he served again as Deputy Chief of the People's Navy and Chief of Staff in the People's Navy Command until he retired from active service on May 31, 1964. Shortly before his release, he was promoted to Vice Admiral by decision of the GDR Council of Ministers in May 1964 .

On June 3, 1964, Neukirchen was appointed by Horst Schlimper, Deputy Minister of Transport of the GDR, to the office of President of the Directorate for Shipping and Port Management , and as such, on July 8, 1964, he welcomed the Chairman of the GDR State Council, Walter Ulbricht, to the Rostock overseas port. On December 28, 1973, Transport Minister Otto Arndt appointed Neukirchen General Director of the newly created Combine Maritime Transport and Port Management, which began its work on January 1, 1974. For health reasons he had to give up his professional and voluntary activities in 1976. Since then he has lived as a writer in Rostock and was a member of the GDR writers' association.

Neukirchen also became the first chairman of FC Hansa Rostock in December 1965 . In 1967, however, he handed this office over to Ernst-Moritz Pahnke.

Awards

Publications

  • War at Sea (German Military Publishing House, Berlin 1966)
  • Maritime Transport Manual. Vol. 1 (1969)
  • Maritime Transport Manual. Vol. 2. Collective of authors: Reinhold Dopatka u. a. Head: Günter Babst; (Editor) Reinhold Dopatka and Heinz Neukirchen (1970)
  • Maritime Transport Manual. Vol. 3. Main authors: Gottfried Schulze; Lothar Uhlig; (Editor) Gottfried Schulze and Heinz Neukirchen (1970)
  • Seafaring yesterday and today (transpress, Berlin 1970)
  • Ports and Ships (transpress, Berlin 1974)
  • Pirates - Robbery on All Seas (transpress, Berlin 1977)
  • Geusen - Better to drown than caught (transpress, Berlin 1980)
  • Maritime power in the mirror of history (transpress, Berlin 1982)
  • Clear fore and aft - on a rocking horse to the Rio de la Plata (transpress, Berlin 1983)
  • With an uncertain course (transpress, Berlin 1985)
  • Seafaring through the millennia (transpress, Berlin 1985)
  • Sea Lord Gerry or Reunion with Africa (transpress, Berlin 1989)

His books have been translated into many languages.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 .
  2. ^ Siegfried Breyer, Peter Joachim Lapp : The People's Navy of the GDR. Development - tasks - equipment. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1985, ISBN 3-7637-5423-7 .
  3. ↑ Armeerundschau No. 4/1990
  4. ^ New Germany of May 23, 1964
  5. ↑ Gerd Peters : The purchase of old tonnage ships for the GDR merchant fleet. Poetry and truth about the hobby horse movement. In: Full ahead. For sailors and friends of seafaring (PDF; 553 kB). Issue No. 12, May 2007, pp. 4/5. Type IV driving people eV (publisher), Rostock 2007.
  6. ^ New Germany of July 9, 1964
  7. ^ Ostsee-Zeitung of December 29, 1973
  8. ↑ fc-hansa.de: 40 years of FC Hansa: The cog as a trademark. December 28, 2005, accessed November 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Neukirchen, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neukirchen, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer and vice admiral
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1986
Place of death Rostock