Karl Schneider-Pungs

Flotilla Admiral Dr. Schneider-Pungs (1962)

Karl Schneider-Pungs (born July 31, 1914 in Daaden ; † September 22, 2001 in France ) was a German naval officer , most recently as rear admiral in the German Navy .

Life

Schneider-Pungs joined the Reichsmarine as an officer candidate on April 1, 1934 and began his training including an internship in international maritime control during the Spanish Civil War , before completing officer training at the Mürwik Naval School in Flensburg - Mürwik in March 1937 with the main naval officer examination.

In October 1937 Schneider-Pungs, meanwhile promoted to lieutenant in the sea , was transferred as torpedo and watch officer to the destroyer Z 2 Georg Thiele , which had just been put into service . After the trials, the ship made several trips and was present when the Memelland was reintegrated into the German Empire. After the outbreak of World War II , it performed outpost service off the German coast.

On April 1, 1940 Schneider-Pungs became a group officer at the Mürwik Naval School. In 1941 he became the commander of a speedboat with which he took part in the operations during the Russian campaign in the Gulf of Riga and the Gulf of Finland . After another activity at the naval school as a company commander , Schneider-Pungs became a consultant in the Naval High Command East in Kiel in April 1943 and stayed there until the end of the war.

After the end of the war, Schneider-Pungs signed up for service in the German mine clearance service . He was suspected of belonging to a resistance movement and was placed in solitary confinement for half a year in Hamburg and Flensburg by the British occupying forces .

After his discharge, he studied veterinary medicine at the Justus Liebig University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and Veterinary Medicine . He was approved in 1952 and was awarded a Dr. med. vet. PhD . Then he was the city ​​veterinarian in Leutkirch .

On April 1, 1957, he joined the newly founded German Navy as a corvette captain . In the following years he was mainly employed in personnel management in the Federal Ministry of Defense . In the meantime he attended the NATO Defense College in Paris . For a time he was chief of staff at the command of the speedboats . From January 1963 to August 1966, now as a flotilla admiral , he was in command of the Mürwik Naval School. He then returned to the Federal Ministry of Defense and was Deputy Head of the Personnel Department as Rear Admiral. From 1970 to 1973, he was Head of Human Resources and Administration at NATO Headquarters Europe (SHAPE) in Mons .

Schneider-Pungs spent most of his retirement at his second residence in south-west France, where he died on September 22, 2001.

Honors

• 1973: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

See also

• List of commanders of the naval school (Kiel and Mürwik)

literature

• Kurt Diggins: Obituary In: MOV-MOH-DMI-Nachrichten 1 / 2-2002 S. 89

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Kurt Diggins: Obituary In: MOV-MOH-DMI-Nachrichten 1 / 2-2002 P. 89 *
2. ↑ Dissertation: The goat tuberculosis - its importance and distribution as well as suggestions for its control .
3. ↑ Information on Karl Schneider-Pungs in the Federal Archives / Military Archives ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 85, May 8, 1973.