Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer

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Hitler visits Puttkamer after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 in the Karlshof military hospital

Karl-Otto Robert Jesko von Puttkamer (* 24. March 1900 in Frankfurt an der Oder , † 4. March 1981 in Neuried near Munich ) was during the Second World War Rear Admiral and naval aide of Adolf Hitler .

family

Karl-Jesko comes from the Pomeranian noble family von Puttkamer . He was the first-born son of the lawyer, district administrator in Gronau and brewery owner Jesco Karl Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolf von Puttkamer and his wife Regina, née Countess Finck von Finckenstein . Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer was married to Charlotte Schmidt; the marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter. Puttkamer was buried in the forest cemetery in Munich in 1981 ; A son followed in 1988, his daughter in 1997 and his wife Charlotte in 2009 in the family grave.

Military background

Puttkamer (2nd from left) on the Wolfsschanze site , 1944

During the First World War, Puttkamer joined the Imperial Navy on July 2, 1917 as a volunteer with the prospect of a career as a naval officer . After completing his basic training on the training ship SMS Freya , he joined the large-scale ship SMS Kaiserin in December 1917 . From September after the end of the war until November 30, 1918, Puttkamer completed a navigation course at the Mürwik Naval School. He then took a leave of absence and joined the Petersdorff Freikorps in Courland . Puttkamer later joined the Second Storm Company of the Ehrhardt Marine Brigade and took part in the Kapp Putsch in Berlin in 1920.

In September 1920 he was transferred to the provisional Reichsmarine and he continued his naval officer training with courses at the Naval School Mürwik and on the training ship Niobe . As a lieutenant in the sea , Puttkamer was a watch officer in the 1st flotilla, was promoted to first lieutenant in the sea on May 1, 1923 , and served on the torpedo boat G 7 until the end of April 1925 . He then worked as a group officer at the Mürwik Naval School and was transferred to the staff of the Fleet Command as a flag lieutenant on September 24, 1926 . After three years he was appointed commander of the torpedo boat Albatros in the 4th torpedo boat semi-flotilla under its boss Karl Dönitz . Puttkamer gave this command on September 24, 1930, was promoted to lieutenant captain on October 1, 1930 and as such was appointed commander of the torpedo boat Seeadler a fortnight later . At the same time, he also acted as flag lieutenant of the II Torpedo Boat Flotilla in Wilhelmshaven. After Puttkamer had given up command of the sea ​​eagles , he completed the training as a guide assistant from October 3, 1931 to September 26, 1933 and then worked as a naval liaison officer to the Army General Staff until June 30, 1935. He was then transferred to the staff of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy and from there commanded as naval adjutant to the Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler. In this position, Puttkamer became corvette captain on February 1, 1936 .

After three years, he was recalled from the Reich Chancellery and assigned to the Germania shipyard in Kiel to lead the building instruction for the destroyer Z 10 Hans Lody . When it went into service on September 17, 1938, Puttkamer became the ship's first in command. Shortly before the start of World War II, he gave up command and was a naval liaison officer to the Führer Headquarters from August 23 to September 30, 1939 . Subsequently, Puttkamer was again naval adjutant to Hitler and in this function was promoted to frigate captain on November 1, 1939 , to sea captain on April 1, 1941 and to rear admiral on September 1, 1943. At the same time he was also a naval liaison officer with the Commander- in -Chief of the Army .

In his function as naval adjutant, he was present in the attack on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 in Wolfsschanze . Puttkamer was slightly injured as a result of the detonation of the explosive device deposited by Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg . On April 21, 1945, Puttkamer fled by plane from enclosed Berlin to Obersalzberg in order to destroy important papers there. In May 1945 he was arrested by American troops . He was released from captivity on May 12, 1947. In 1948 he was denazified as "not affected" by the Eichstätt Chamber of Justice .

Works

  • The Eerie Sea (Hitler and the Navy). Verlag Karl Kühne, Vienna / Munich 1952

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 3: P-Z. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1700-3 . Pp. 75-76.
  • Ellinor von Puttkamer (editor): History of the sex v. Puttkamer. (= German Family Archives, Volume 83-85). 2nd Edition. Degener. Neustadt an der Aisch 1984. ISBN 3-7686-5064-2 . Pp. 711-712.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ellinor von Puttkamer (editor): History of the sex v. Puttkamer. (= German Family Archives, Volume 83-85). 2nd Edition. Degener. Neustadt an der Aisch 1984. ISBN 3-7686-5064-2 . Pp. 704-712.
  2. ^ Puttkamer, Karl Jesko von . In: gravestone.com (with photo of the tomb)
  3. ^ Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer on the website of the Association of the von Puttkamer family
  4. ↑ Ian Kershaw : Hitler 1936-1945. Nemesis. Penguin. 2001. ISBN 0141925817 . on-line
  5. ^ Ellinor von Puttkamer (editor): History of the sex v. Puttkamer. (= German Family Archives, Volume 83-85). 2nd Edition. Degener. Neustadt an der Aisch 1984. ISBN 3-7686-5064-2 . P. 712.
personal data
SURNAME Puttkamer, Karl-Jesko from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puttkamer, Karl-Jesko Otto Robert von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rear admiral, naval adjutant to Hitler
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt Oder
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1981
Place of death Neuried (near Munich)