Helmut Kampe

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Helmut Kampe in 1973 as commander of the Mürwik Naval School

Helmut Kampe (born December 7, 1925 in Berlin ) is a German naval officer, Vice Admiral ret. D. of the German Navy , most recently until 1986 Commander of NATO Naval Forces Baltic Sea Access .

Helmut Kampe is the son of the investigator and former lieutenant to the sea Karl Kampe and his wife Selma. He married Ruth Holzmann in 1959, with whom he has two children.

Navy

After graduating from high school in Berlin, he joined the Navy on July 1, 1943 as a sea ​​officer candidate . He received his military training, among other things, on the destroyer Z 23 , with which he was deployed in the Bay of Biscay and in the English Channel . At the end of the war he was an ensign at sea at the Naval School Mürwik .

post war period

After the end of the war, Kampe belonged to the German mine clearance service and participated in mine clearance in the North Sea and the Skagerrak . He then completed a degree in surveying engineering in Berlin , which he completed as a graduate engineer, and found a job at the forest management office of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Federal Navy

In June 1956, Kampe joined the newly established Federal Navy as a lieutenant at sea , where he was selected for training as a pilot in the United States Navy in Pensacola. Then he was a pilot in the naval anti-submarine squadron , which he helped to build up as well as the naval tactical training group in Wilhelmshaven . He also served on the staff of the Commander in Chief of the Naval Forces of the Baltic Sea . From 1962 to 1964 he was squadron captain of the navy submarine squadron before starting his admiralty training at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg .

After graduating in 1966, Kampe became the commander of the flying group in Naval Aviation Wing 5 in Kiel . As early as 1967 he was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense , where he became adjutant to the inspector general of the Bundeswehr, General Ulrich de Maizière . In 1970 he was briefly head of the operations department in the staff of the Naval Aviation Division , in order to subsequently be employed as commodore of Naval Aviation Squadron 5 and Naval Aviation Squadron 3 "Graf Zeppelin" .

1973 Kampe was commander of the Naval School Mürwik and promoted to flotilla admiral. As rear admiral , he became Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces in Bonn in January 1977 . On April 1, 1980 he became deputy commander of the fleet in Glücksburg . From there he went to the Danish Karup on April 1, 1983 as Commander of the NATO Naval Forces Baltic Sea Forces , from where he retired on March 31, 1986.

Activities after retirement

After his retirement, Kampe was editor of the marine history series Nauticus, the yearbook for Germany's marine interests, for a few years .

Awards

  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1973)
  • Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1978)
  • Federal Cross of Merit (1985)

literature

  • Portrait: Rear Admiral Helmut Kampe, Chief of Staff of the Command Staff of the Armed Forces . In: Die Bundeswehr 9/77, p. 410

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The man who guarded the Baltic Sea resigns - nothing was tied down, improvisation was everything . In: Die Welt , March 19, 1986
  2. ^ Who's who in Germany ; 5th edition 1986, p. 467. ISBN 3-923590-04-0
  3. ↑ The man who guarded the Baltic Sea resigns - nothing was tied down, improvisation was everything . In: Die Welt , March 19, 1986
  4. ↑ Portrait: Rear Admiral Helmut Kampe, Chief of Staff of the Command Staff of the Armed Forces . In: Die Bundeswehr 9/77, p. 410
  5. ↑ Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Industry 1985/86 , p. 74. ISBN 3-7637-5285-4
  6. ↑ dtv lexicon ; Volume 12, p. 328. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag 1997
personal data
SURNAME Kampe, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, Vice Admiral of the Federal Navy
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin