Horst-Helmut Wind

Flotilla Admiral Wind (1983)

Horst-Helmut Wind (born August 15, 1927 , † February 19, 2009 in Glücksburg (Baltic Sea) ) was a German naval officer , most recently a flotilla admiral in the German Navy .

Life

Wind entered the Kriegsmarine with crew X / 44 . At the end of the Second World War he was a midshipman . In the post-war period with the water police , he was a sports instructor at the Hamburg Police School . He went to the merchant navy and acquired the A 6 patent (captain on long voyages). Most recently he was the first officer on the Passat training ship .

He switched to the German Navy in 1960 and was a sailing officer on the Gorch Fock . He went through the admiralty staff training and served as IO on the training ships Deutschland and Gorch Fock . After he had been a course leader at the command academy of the Bundeswehr , he came to the Gorch Fock, affectionately known as the “stick cruiser”, for the third time in April 1978 as a commander . In March 1982 he was signed off and (like Hans von Stackelberg before him) he became the site elder at VBK 10 in Hamburg. As the only Gorch Fock commander to date promoted to flotilla admiral, he came to the Mürwik naval school as commander . Retired early in October 1985 for health reasons, he lived in a secluded life in Glücksburg. There he died at the age of 81.

Wind had been a member of Trans-Ocean since July 1986 . In the same year he became a juror . Ten days before his death, he gave up his volunteer work .

Works

• Parade of tall ships . 3. Edition. DSV-Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-88412-086-7 .

See also

• List of commanders of the naval school (Kiel and Mürwik)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} We mourn the loss of Mr. Admiral a. D. Horst Helmut Wind. ( Memento from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Trans-Ocean, March 12, 2009 (with picture).
2. ↑ CV (Gorch Fock)