Henrich Grote

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Henrich Grote (born November 9, 1920 in Lingen (Ems) ; † October 25, 1995 in Hamburg ) was a German naval officer , most recently a flotilla admiral of the German Navy .

Navy and post-war period

Henrich Grote joined the Navy on October 1, 1938 and was promoted to lieutenant on April 1, 1941 after completing his training as an officer candidate . Initially, Grote served in the 2nd minesweeping flotilla and was deployed in the Atlantic area from the North Cape to the Bay of Biscay . On April 1, 1943 he was promoted to first lieutenant at sea .

He later reported on the submarine weapon and was trained there. Shortly before the end of the Second World War , in March 1945, he became the commander of the submarine U 3516 . He had the boat sunk off Travemünde himself on May 2, 1945 , without being able to undertake a patrol with him beforehand.

After a short captivity , Grote studied natural sciences and became a teacher in Schleswig-Holstein .

Service in the German Navy

In 1956 Grote joined the newly established German Navy and initially served in the field of command of the destroyers . From July 1961 to September 1962 he was first officer of destroyer 6 as corvette captain and from October 1963 to March 1964 as frigate captain, commander of destroyer 1 . From April 1968 to March 1969 he led the 3rd destroyer squadron as sea captain , which consisted of four class 119 destroyers ( Fletcher class ). In April 1969 he took over the newly established 1st destroyer squadron and put the new class 103 destroyers ( Charles F. Adams class ) into service.

In the meantime, Grote took part in a course at the Naval War College of the United States Navy in Newport (Rhode Island) . He was also head of the operations department in the NATO Naval Forces Command Baltic Sea Access .

From October 1972 to December 1973, Grote was a Flotilla Admiral in command of the Baltic Sea Division and then, until his retirement on March 31, 1981, he was in command of the Bundeswehr logistics school in Hamburg.

literature

  • Rolf Güth, obituary in: MOV-MOH-DMI-Nachrichten 1 / 2-1996 p. 3 *

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rolf Güth, obituary in: MOV-MOH-DMI-Nachrichten 1 / 2-1996, p. 3 *
  2. ↑ CV at uboat.net
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Harnack, The Destroyer Flotilla of the German Navy from 1958 to today, Hamburg, Köhler 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0816-1 .
  4. ^ Federal archive inventory BW 11-I, logistics school of the Bundeswehr

Remarks

  1. ↑ In some sources, the spellings "Heinrich" and "Hinrich" are mistakenly used instead of "Henrich". His nickname was "Henner"
personal data
SURNAME Grote, Henrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grote, Henner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, flotilla admiral of the Federal Navy
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Lingen (Ems)
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1995
Place of death Hamburg