Jochen Brennecke
Jochen Brennecke , actually Joachim Brennecke , also Hans Jochen Brennecke (born April 12, 1913 Dessau , † November 18, 1997 in Stuttgart ?), Was a German writer , editor and naval historian . He also used the pseudonyms Jens Janssen , Jens Jensen and EG Lass .
Origin and occupation
Nothing is known about his origins and youth. He was a seaman on square sailors and retired from his nautical activity due to an accident. During the Second World War he was a war correspondent for the Navy from 1940 to 1943 . a. in Athens . He was then used in naval anti-aircraft units. In 1942 he published his first book, a volume about the armored ship Admiral Scheer . His last rank was Chief Petty Officer of the reserve .
From 1953 he published numerous writings on seafaring and naval history under his own name and the pseudonym Jens Janssen . His work on the battleship Tirpitz saw 17 editions. His book on submarine warfare, Hunters - Hunted , has also been published in English , French, and Norwegian . At the end of the 1950s he published a good dozen volumes as Jens Janssen in the novel series SOS - Fate of German Ships ; probably because the main author of the series, Otto Mielke , died prematurely in 1958.
In 1975, Brennecke was a co-founder and long-term Secretary General of the German Society for Shipping and Naval History . He was also president of the research institute and archive for shipping and naval history and continued to work as a non-fiction author, novelist and radio play author. He died in 1997, probably in Stuttgart.
Fonts (selection)
- Cruiser War in Two Oceans. Heavy cruiser "Admiral Scheer" sinks 152,000 gross register tons . Hase & Koehler, Leipzig 1942.
- Battleship Tirpitz. Factual report . Deutscher Seeverlag, Hamm 1953.
- Hunter - Hunted! . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1956.
- Sharks in paradise. The German submarine war in Asia's waters , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1961.
- Arctic Ocean - Atlantic Ocean - Baltic Sea. The missions of the heavy cruiser "Admiral Hipper" . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1963.
- Tanker. From the petroleum clipper to the super tanker . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1975, ISBN 3-7822-0066-7 .
- With Karl-Otto Dummer : the four-masted barque Pamir. Your fate in the center of hurricane "Carrie" . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-548-23531-X .
- History of shipping . Sigloch Edition, Künzelsau 1981; New edition 1999, ISBN 3-89393-176-7 .
literature
- Konrad Feilchenfeldt (ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th Century , Volume 4, Zurich / Munich 2003, pp. 162f.
- Jörg Weigand : pseudonyms. A Lexicon , 3rd edition Baden-Baden 2000, p. 67.
- Eberhard Kliem: Hans (Jochen) Brennecke was born 100 years ago. Memory of the co-founder of the DGSM , in: Schiff Classic. Magazine for shipping and naval history , volume 1, 2013, p. 32f.
- "Blue Boys" as "Landser" at sea - car stereotypes and enemy images in naval booklets 1953 to 2013 , in: Jens Westemeier (ed.): "This was the German soldier ..." The popular image of the Wehrmacht, Paderborn (Ferdinand Schöningh) 2019, pp. 247–266. ISBN 3-506-78770-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Jochen Brennecke in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brennecke, Jochen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brennecke, Hans Jochen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, editor and naval historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dessau |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1997 |
| Place of death | unsure: Stuttgart |