Johannes Rieve (naval officer)

Johannes "Hans" Hermann Caspar Anthony Rieve (* 10. September 1892 in Lehe , † 7. May 1950 in Kiel ) was a German officer of the Navy of the Armed Forces , most recently with the rank of naval captain .

Life

Johannes Rieve was a son of the future Rear Admiral Johannes Rieve (1862–1911) and his wife Clara, née. Amort (1870–1951). His younger brother was the later Vice Admiral Friedrich Rieve

Johannes Rieve and the crew joined the Imperial Navy in 1910 . He served as a watch officer until October 1914 on the Zieten and then in the same position until November 1916 on the Pillau . For the following two months he was "available" in command and then served as an officer on watch on the torpedo boat B 112 until the end of the war . Until 1918 he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class and the Oldenburg Friedrich-August-Cross 2nd Class as First Lieutenant at Sea . In early September 1920 he was retired from service in the character of a lieutenant captain .

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From June 1938 to October 1940 he was frigate captain 1st admiral staff officer with the commander of the security of the Baltic Sea and then in the same function with the commander of the security west . In 1939 he was promoted to sea captain. From March to December 1941 he was the sole head of the Baltic Sea Trial Association . At the beginning of 1942 he received the German Cross in Gold and became Chief of Staff at the Admiral of the Naval Command .

In December 1942 he took over command of the newly established 1st Landing Division with interruptions from May 1943 to October 1943 to November 1944 . In January 1945 he was in command of the Pomeranian Sea Defense until the end of the war (temporarily also in command of the Swinoujscie Fortress Division ) and took part in the Stettin-Rostock operation .

literature

• Walter Lohmann , Hans H. Hildebrand: The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume III, main chapter XIXX, chapter 1, p. 299

Web links

• Test association Baltic Sea with photo by Johannes Rieve

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Gender Book . 1980, p. 203 ( google.de [accessed June 9, 2020]).
2. ↑ ^{a b} German Gender Book . 1980, p. 224 ( google.de [accessed June 9, 2020]).
3. ^ Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy for the year ... ES Mittler und Sohn, 1918, p. 59 ( google.de [accessed June 9, 2020]).
4. ↑ Albert Stoelzel: Honorary Ranking List of the Imperial German Navy, 1914-1918 . Navy Officer Association, 1930, p. 367 ( google.de [accessed June 9, 2020]).
5. ^ The archive: reference work for politics, economy, culture . O. Stollberg., 1939, p. 210 ( google.de [accessed on June 9, 2020]).
6. ↑ Walther Melzer: Battle for the Baltic Islands, 1917, 1941, 1944: A study on the Triphibian warfare. - . Vowinckel, 1960, p. 38 ( google.de [accessed November 8, 2019]).
7. ↑ Gerd-Dietrich Schneider: "Plattbugkreuzer": Artillery carriers of the Navy in action . ES Mittler, 1998, ISBN 978-3-8132-0555-8 , pp. 117 ( google.de [accessed November 8, 2019]).

Remarks

1. ↑ A source (Sverre Steen. Kristiansands historie 1914-1945 . Christianssands sparebank 1974. https://books.google.de/books?id=S-8nAQAAMAAJ&q= ) incorrectly names a sea captain Johannes Rieve as a participant in the 1940 Weser exercise . But this is his brother Friedrich Rieve.