Joachim Wünning

Emil Heinrich Joachim Wünning (born April 1, 1898 in Kleinhelmsdorf , Weißenfels district, † September 22, 1944 in Vathy Bay, Samos Island ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and naval officer.

Live and act

Wünning was born as one of the two sons of a landowner. After attending elementary school and grammar school in Eisenberg, where he passed the war maturity examination, he took part in the First World War. On June 14, 1915, he joined the 2nd Thuringian Field Artillery Regiment 55 in Naumburg as a war volunteer . In October of the same year he went to the Naval School. As a naval officer he was trained on the liner SMS König , with which he took part in the Skagerrak Battle in the summer of 1916 . In February 1916 he was promoted to senior seaman and in July 1916 to ensign. After further training courses, Wünning was assigned to the SMS Schleswig-Holstein , then to the SMS Kaiserin Augusta . On July 15, 1917, he was officer on watch on a torpedo boat of the 17th Torpedo Boat Half Flotilla. In December 1917 he was promoted to lieutenant at sea . On March 31, 1919 Wünning retired from the Navy.

Weimar Republic (1919 to 1933)

After the war, Wünning began training in agriculture. In the following years he worked in various farms in Saxony , Hessen-Nassau and Bavaria. From 1923 to 1924 Wünning studied agriculture in Göttingen and Munich . In 1924 he took over the management of his parents' estate, the Kleinhelmsdorf manor. In 1925 he married.

In June 1928 Wünning joined the NSDAP ( membership number 90.185). Between 1929 and 1933 he headed the NSDAP local group Kleinhelmsdorf; He was also the party's agricultural adviser and speaker for the Weissenfels district and district deputy. In the Reichstag election in July 1932 , Wünning was elected as a candidate of the NSDAP for constituency 11 (Merseburg) in the Reichstag (Weimar Republic) , which he subsequently belonged to without interruption until his death in September 1944. The most important parliamentary event in which Wünning took part during his time as a member of parliament was the passage of the Enabling Act in March 1933, which was also passed with Wünning's vote.

Period of National Socialism (1933 to 1944)

On March 25, 1933 Wünning joined the SS (SS-No. 228.386), in which he was last promoted to Sturmbannführer in March 1944 . Since the formation of the Reichsnährstand Wünning was from September 1933 district farmer leader of the Weißenfels an der Saale district .

On September 6, 1939 Wünning was commanded as a watch officer on the auxiliary cruiser Widder , which was commanded by frigate captain Hellmuth von Ruckteschell . In October 1940 Wünning was given command of the mine ship Queen Luise , which he led until he was wounded on September 25, 1941. After a few months of recovery, on January 19, 1942, he took command of the Sperrbrecher 134 in the 6th Sperrbrecher Flotilla. He was then used on the Sperrbrecher 8 , the mineship Bulgaria and, from August 20, 1942, on the mineship Drache in the 21st submarine hunt flotilla in Greece. From May to August 1944 Wünning led this flotilla as a deputy. On September 22, 1944, the dragon was sunk in an air raid in Vathy Bay on Samos , which also killed Wünning, who had held the rank of corvette captain of the reserve since April 1942 . Wünning was posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on October 22, 1944 .

Awards

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd class
Clasp for the Iron Cross 2nd class in July 1940
Iron Cross (1939) 1st Class on February 27, 1941
War badge for minesweeping, submarine hunting and security groups in March 1941
War badge for auxiliary cruisers in September 1941
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on October 22, 1944 (posthumous)

literature

Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 742 f .

Web links

Joachim Wünning in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 799.

personal data
SURNAME	Wünning, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wünning, Emil Heinrich Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NSDAP), MdR and naval officer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 1, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kleinhelmsdorf , Weißenfels district
DATE OF DEATH	September 22, 1944
Place of death	Vathy Bay, Samos Island

[1] Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 799.