Karl Coupette

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Karl Coupette (born July 31, 1885 in Spandau , † February 17, 1964 in Mülheim ) was a German naval officer , most recently rear admiral .

Life

Coupette was the son of Lieutenant General Carl Friedrich Coupette (1855-1929) and Maria Elisabeth Hellingrath (1862-1943). His younger brother Hans Gustav Jakob Coupette (1890–1915) died as a lieutenant in the First World War near Hrodna .

Coupette joined the Imperial Navy on April 1, 1905 as a midshipman and completed his basic training on the cruiser frigate SMS Charlotte . He then came to the Mürwik Naval School , where he was appointed Ensign at Sea on April 7, 1906 . From October 1907 he knew Service 1. on the battleship SMS Kaiser Barbarossa was here on September 28, 1908. Ensign transported and from 1 October 1908 to September 1910 as a radio officer 14. on the light cruisers SMS Danzig and SMS Mainz used . The next two years he spent as an aide on the battleship SMS Hessen , was in the meantime, on September 5, 1911. Lieutenant promoted and came to 31 March 1913 on the torpedo training ship SMS Württemberg . From April 1 to September 30, 1913 he was a company officer of the I. Werft Division and was then transferred to the Kiautschou sailors' main division in the same position. On January 12, 1914, he left for Tsingtau and was employed in the Kiautschou colony as a signal and radio officer as well as a major .

After the outbreak of World War I, Coupette served in the government staff . After the siege of Tsingtau and the capture of the city by Japanese troops , Coupette was from November 8, 1914 to November 26, 1919 in Japanese captivity . He then acted as a liaison officer to the Swiss legation for the repatriation of German prisoners of war and as a member of the German Red Cross for the removal of them from Siberia . In this role Coupette was promoted to lieutenant captain on January 30, 1920 . The date of the patent was April 24, 1916.

On July 22nd, 1920 he started his journey home to Germany and after his return was initially made available to the naval station of the Baltic Sea . He was assigned to the ship trunk of the small cruiser Arcona, which was reclassified as a light cruiser , and he was used as a navigational officer on the ship from May 25, 1921 to September 29, 1922 . He then served as a company officer in the Coast Defense Department until September 14, 1924 and as first officer on the light cruiser Amazone until September 26, 1926 . As a corvette captain (since April 1, 1925), he served from September 27, 1926 to July 29, 1929 as a naval liaison officer to Military District Command VI. For a little more than two years, Coupette took over as head of the Reichsmarinedienststelle Stettin and in the meantime became a frigate captain on April 1, 1930 . From September 30 to January 31, 1934 he was in command of the ship master division of the Baltic Sea and in this position on October 1, 1932 became a sea captain . This was followed on February 1, 1934, by his appointment as Chief of Staff of the Second Admiral of the Baltic Sea. Coupette acted from October 15, 1935 as head of the shipping department in the naval management (from January 11, 1936, the command of the navy ) and on March 16, 1938 he was assigned to the Reich Ministry of Transport .

On March 31, 1938, while being promoted to rear admiral, he retired from active service and was employed as a civilian employee in the ministry. Coupette was made available to the Navy on May 24, 1939 , but was not used for active military service.

Awards

literature

  • Hans H. Hildebrand and Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945 Volume 1: AG (Ackermann to Gygas) , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1988, ISBN 3-7648-2480-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family tree of the Lintz family  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / cscpro.pointclark.net  
  2. ↑ a b Short biography of Karl Coupette. In: Tsingtau and Japan 1914–1920 - Historisch Biographisches Projekt. Retrieved March 23, 2016 .
  3. ^ A b Ranking list of the German Reichsmarine , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1929, p. 42
personal data
SURNAME Coupette, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, most recently rear admiral
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Spandau
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1964
Place of death Mülheim