Karl Palmgren

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Karl Ernst Albert Lars Palmgren , also Palmgreen , (born September 2, 1891 in Voigdehagen near Stralsund , † September 16, 1970 in Göttingen ) was a German officer in the Imperial and Navy , most recently in the rank of frigate captain d. R ..

Life

Palmgren was born on September 2nd, 1891 in the village of Voigdehagen near Stralsund and comes from a Swedish farming family. He was a son of the former pastor of Wopersnow and pastor of Voigdehagen , Johannes Friedrich Ernst Palmgren (1859-1934). His younger brother Ernst Karl Friedrich (* 1894) also became a naval officer.

Palmgren joined the Navy in mid-1909 and received his on-board training on various ships until the beginning of April 1913, including from 1909 to 1910 on the Hertha . He was then employed, among other things, as an adjutant on the large cruiser Victoria Louise , with which he drove from Germany to the West Indies in early December 1912. At the beginning of the First World War , he moved to the Sailor Regiment 5 in the 2nd Marine Division of the Marine Corps Flanders . Until April 1915 he was a battalion adjutant and then company commander . He took part in the first two battles of Ypres and was wounded in May 1915. He later joined the 2nd Marine Division as an adjutant until May 1916 and has since been promoted to lieutenant at sea . In 1914 he received the Iron Cross II. Class and in 1915 the Iron Cross I. Class. During the Third Battle of Ypres he was involved in the storming of Grafenstafel. During the war he was used as an officer on watch on the G 9 torpedo boat . G 9 ran into a mine in the Skagerrak in early May 1918 and sank. Palmgren became the commander of G 10 , with which he took part in the Battle of the Skagerrak . This was followed by another assignment as an officer on watch on the ship of the line Württemberg . In the last year of the war, Karl Palmgren was in command of the U 1 submarine from July 1918 and shortly before the end of the war he was still in command of UC 76 for two months . After the war he was discharged from the Navy as a lieutenant captain at the end of 1919 and hired himself out at a shipyard and in a car factory. In 1928 he founded a weaving mill in Bremen , which was bombed out in 1942.

In 1939 he became a corvette captain z. V. reactivated and from September 1939 to the summer of 1940 was the first commander of the Sperrbrecher IX in the 2nd Sperrbrecher Flotilla and from the commissioning in mid-September 1940 commander of the Sperrbrecher 1 (formerly Saar der NDL ), only with the 2nd Sperrbrecher Flotilla and from July 1941 on the newly established 6th barrier breaker flotilla. In this position Palmgren was awarded the Knight's Cross on August 3, 1941 and from then on the Sperrbrecher 1 drove with a Knight's Cross on the bridge.

From October 1941 to March 1943 he was the last head of the 4th Blockbreaker Flotilla in Bruges . The flotilla had to record high losses, so that later the chief post was no longer filled and the flotilla was dissolved in July 1943. Therefore, from January to March 1943, he was also appointed chief of the 36th minesweeping flotilla. In April 1943 he became chief of staff of the Italian naval command in Naples and was the officer responsible for the fighting and the eventual destruction of the port of Naples in the course of the Badoglio "betrayal". At the beginning of 1944 he was only 1st Admiral Staff Officer in the 2nd Security Division in Boulogne and then until the beginning of 1945 head of the 38th Minesweeping Flotilla of the 2nd Security Division in Le Havre , after the clearing of the Channel coast in Kattegat , Denmark in 1944 . Receiving the oak leaves in July 1944, he should actually have received the battle badge with diamonds for the war badge already awarded for mine search, submarine hunting and security groups as one of only four people in total . In August 1944 he was made frigate captain z. V. promoted. Towards the end of the war he first became head of the Gotenhafen branch of the 9th Security Division , later from March 1945 head of the Libau branch , at the same time deputy commander of the 9th Security Division and head of the 3rd Security Flotilla of the 9th Security Flotilla until the beginning of May 1945. Security division with which he was involved in the Hannibal company . In May 1945 he was briefly Port Commander Schlei.

After his release in September 1945, he rebuilt his weaving mill and died on September 16, 1970 in Göttingen.

From 1918 he was married to Hilde Luise Frieda Anna Grapow (1898–1999). His son Gerhard Palmgren (* 1919) also became a submarine commander and died as a first lieutenant in the sea . R. in August 1944 when U 741 went down .

Awards (selection)

  • War badge for minesweeping, submarine hunting and security groups, 1940
  • Clasp for the Iron Cross 1st Class, January 8, 1941
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, August 3, 1941
  • Oak leaves for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (523rd award), July 11, 1944

literature

  • Beckmann, Gerhard; Keubke, Klaus-Ulrich; Mumm, Ralf: Naval officers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1849–1990. Schwerin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-019944-8 , pp. 130 ff.
  • Manfred Dörr: The knight's cross bearers of the surface forces of the navy . Volume 2. Biblio, 1996, pp. 107-111
  • Clemens Range : The knight's cross bearers of the Navy . Motorbuch-Verlag , 1974, p. 42
  • Chronicles of the German naval occupation, 1891–1918 , Marineschule Mürwik , p. 127

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Franz Thomas, Günter Wegmann: The knight's cross bearers of the German Wehrmacht 1939-1945 . Biblio, 1996, p. 108 ( google.de [accessed April 15, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Hamburg passenger lists, 1850–1934, Hamburg State Archives .
  3. ↑ a b Ship and Time . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1984, p. 9 ( google.de [accessed on April 16, 2020]).
  4. ↑ a b Beckmann, Gerhard; Keubke, Klaus-Ulrich: Naval officers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1849-1990. Schwerin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-019944-8 , pp. 130-131 .
  5. ↑ Hans Sakkers: Normandie, June 6, 1944 as reflected in the German war diaries: the major attack on the Atlantic Wall . Biblio, 1998, ISBN 978-3-7648-2470-9 , pp. 92 ( google.de [accessed April 15, 2020]).
  6. ^ Jürgen Rohwer, Gerhard Hümmelchen: Chronicle of the naval war 1939-1945 . Stalling, 1968, p. 520 ( google.de [accessed on April 16, 2020]).
  7. ↑ a b Franz Thomas, Günter Wegmann: The knight's cross bearers of the German Wehrmacht 1939–1945 . Biblio, 1996, p. 109 ( google.de [accessed April 16, 2020]).
  8. ^ Herbert Kapfer, Lisbeth Exner: Verborgene Chronik 1914, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2014, p. 486 [1]
  9. ↑ Lawrence Paterson: First U-Boat Flotilla . Pen and Sword, 2001, ISBN 978-0-85052-816-9 , pp. 261 ( google.de [accessed April 15, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Palmgren, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palmgren, Karl Ernst Albert Lars (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German frigate captain
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Voigdehagen near Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1970
Place of death Goettingen