Karl H. Peter

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Charly Peter

Karl ("Charly") Peter (born September 17, 1918 in Scheeßel ; † December 6, 2003 in Altenholz ) was a German naval officer, most recently rear admiral and head of personnel at SHAPE .

Life

Karl Hinrich Peter grew up in Rotenburg (Wümme) as the son of a postal worker . From 1931 to 1938 he attended the Bremen secondary school . After five and a half months of national labor service in Glinstedt in Teufelsmoor , he joined the German navy on September 26, 1938 with Crew 38 on Dänholm .

Navy

He initially served on the sailing training ship Gorch Fock . As a midshipman on the light cruiser Emden , he experienced the beginning of the Second World War . After he was at the Naval NCO School in Plön , he completed the ensign course at the Naval School Mürwik in 1939/40 . He was then sent to the ship artillery school in Kiel . As ensign in the sea and lieutenant in the sea , he served as head of the computing center for the ship artillery on the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper , and from 1942 also as a cadet officer.

In February 1943, Peter was appendectomized in the Kiel-Hassee naval hospital . There he met his future wife. After his recovery he initially served as a group officer in the Meierwik department of the Mürwik Naval School (cf. Flottenkommando ) under Heinrich Ruhfus , Waldemar Winther and Wolfgang Lüth . In April 1943, as a first lieutenant at sea, he was in command of the R 421 and R 424 in the 3rd clearing boat flotilla . He experienced the end of the war with the flotilla in Flensburg .

post war period

In the post-war period , Peter was transferred to the German Mine Clearance Service ( GMSA ) in Rotterdam , which was later transferred to the Cuxhaven Mine Clearance Association led by the Royal Navy and the Labor Service Unit (B) (LSU) in Bremerhaven, led by the United States Navy .

Federal Navy

On December 1, 1955, Peter was taken over by the future German Navy as the fourth officer of the LSU and promoted to lieutenant captain. He was assigned to the acceptance organization as an inspection officer and was transferred to the inspection center for naval officers in Cologne in January 1956 . On January 20, 1956, he took part in the first troop display of the Bundeswehr in Andernach by Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer . It was used at the Wilhelmshaven naval acceptance point until February 1957 .

From March 1, 1957, Peter was department commander at the Mürwik Naval School . On the day of national mourning in 1957, he had a memorial stone erected on the grounds of the naval school for the sea captain Wolfgang Lüth , who was accidentally shot shortly after the end of the war . On November 9, 1959, he became the commander of the 3rd mine sweeping squadron in Kiel . From October 11 to November 3, 1960, this undertook a publicly noted trip on the Rhine and Main . On October 24, 1960, Peter gave an important speech in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt , where the Reichsflotte was founded in 1848.

From December 1960 he was preparing for his stay in the USA in Mürwik and Euskirchen . With effect from May 1, 1961, he was commanded at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis and worked there (and temporarily at the United States Military Academy in West Point ) as a teaching officer. He returned to Germany in June 1964.

On October 12, 1964, the new destroyer Schleswig-Holstein was put into service in Hamburg under his command . At the end of May 1965 he led the royal yacht Britannia with her on the visit of British Queen Elisabeth II to Borkum in Germany . After that, Karl Peter worked from October 1966 to September 1967 as an A 3 staff officer on the staff of the destroyer flotilla in Eckernförde and Kiel.

On September 19, 1967, he took command of the training ship Germany . In addition to shorter trips, he undertook two extended training trips abroad with Germany . The 36th AAR went to Funchal , Salvador da Bahia , Fort-de-France , Kingston (Jamaica) , Ponta Delgada . The ports of the 37th AAR were Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Accra - Tema , Rio de Janeiro , Salvador da Bahia, Belém (Pará) , Port of Spain , Lisbon and Brest (Finistère) . In January 1969, Peter became teaching group commander and in September 1971 commander of the Mürwik Naval School . With effect from September 3, 1973 he became head of human resources (J-1) at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Casteau near Mons . He retired on September 30, 1977.

"His services to training in the navy, the creation of the historical collection at the naval school and his highly decent character, coupled with education and wit, made Peter a role model."

family

Charly Peter married the housekeeping manager and nurse's assistant Waltraut Grattenauer on December 28, 1943 . He had three children with the daughter of the captain at sea, Friedrich Grattenauer .

Awards

Promotions

  • July 1939: midshipman
  • December 1939 Ensign at sea
  • August 1940 senior ensign at sea
  • April 1941 lieutenant at sea
  • April 1943 First Lieutenant at Sea
  • December 1955 Lieutenant Commander
  • June 1957 Corvette Captain
  • March 1965 frigate captain
  • November 1967 sea captain
  • October 1971 Flotilla Admiral
  • September 1973 Rear Admiral

See also

Publications

  • Battle cruiser Scharnhorst . Fight and doom . Berlin / Darmstadt / Bonn 1951.
  • The third mine sweeping squadron's journey on the Rhine . In: Federal Ministry of Defense (Ed.): Information for the Troop , Issue 2/1961, pp. 120–126.
  • Training ship “Deutschland” in 1968. Its path - recorded from the commandant's diaries. Rendsburg o. J.
  • Maritime officer candidate. Your education from 1848 until today. Mürwik 1969, pkgodzik.de (PDF; 2.6 MB)
  • How Columbus navigated . Herford 1972.
  • The fall of Niobe. What happened in the Fehmarn Belt ? Herford 1976.
  • How I became a friend of Neptune. Equator baptism then and now. Special print from Schiffahrt international , 2 + 3/1977, Herford 1977.
  • From astrolabe to chronometer . On the history of nautical science from antiquity to the 18th century . Altenholz, private print no year
  • On the history of the mine clearance associations 1945–1956 . Altenholz, private print no year
  • From the Kriegsmarine to the German Federal Navy. The path of the personnel and the material from 1945 to 1956 . In: Marineforum , 1980, issue 11, pp. 365-369.
  • Ensign training during the Second World War . 2nd edition 1989, ed. from the German Maritime Institute . Herford, pp. 141-154.
  • Eight glass (end of watch). Memories of a naval officer of crew 38 . Prussian Military Publishing House, Reutlingen 1989.
  • Heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper . In: Walter Günther (Ed.), Community Crew 44: “That was how it was back then ...” Reports from the experiences of crewmates 1944–45 . Self-published by Walter Günther, Bonn undated, pp. 45–54.
  • Stories that drive the hair through the hat. Speeches by KAdm a. D. Karl Peter on the occasion of the New Year's Receptions of the AKRO Kiel from 1981 to 2002 . Edited by Waltraut Peter and Gerhard Wittek: Working Group Reserve Officers (AKRO) Kiel in the Association of Reservists of the German Armed Forces 2007.
  • with Waltraut Peter: Klaus and Lene's dream trip. Almost a true story. Altenholz: Private printing no year. Pkgodzik.de (PDF; 1.8 MB)

literature

  • Karl Peter: The 3rd minesweeping squadron on the Rhine and Main 11.10. – 3.11.60 , Kiel: Commander's diary, Korvettenkapitän Peter, undated
  • Karl Peter: Diary from May 23, 1969 to August 14, 1969 . Flensburg, private print no year
  • Karl Peter: On the history of the Mürwik naval school. A personal report . Flensburg, private print no year
  • Rear Admiral Karl Peter, address on September 8, 1977. Gentlemen's dinner for the German officers on the occasion of the farewell, SHAPE / Belgium: private printing 1977.
  • Karl Peter: Eight glasses (end of watch). Memories of a naval officer of crew 38 . Prussian Military Publishing House, Reutlingen 1989.
  • Waltraut Peter: A guardian angel flew with me. Memories 1922–2007 . Altenholz, private print 2007.

Rhine trip

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Eberhard Kliem: Does the German Navy use its own history? ( Memento from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Marineforum. No. 5, 2008, accessed July 7, 2009.
  2. Karl Peter: Speech in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt on October 24, 1960. (PDF; 101 kB) In: pkgodzik.de. Retrieved July 7, 2009 .
  3. ^ Doll calendar by Waltraut Peter in collaboration with Karl H. Peter, pkgodzik.de