Karlgeorg Schuster

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Karlgeorg Schuster (born August 19, 1886 in Uelzen , † June 16, 1973 in Kitzeberg ) was a German naval officer , most recently an admiral in World War II .

Life

Imperial Navy

Schuster joined the Imperial Navy as a midshipman on April 1, 1905 and completed his basic training on the cruiser frigate Stein . He then came to the Mürwik Naval School and was appointed ensign at sea on April 7, 1906 . After he had completed his training, he was transferred to the ship of the line Braunschweig on October 1, 1907 , and to the ship of the line Germany on April 27, 1908 . After his promotion to lieutenant at sea on September 28, 1908, he came three days later on board the great cruiser Gneisenau , with which he transferred to the East Asia Squadron. On August 29, 1910 he became a first lieutenant at sea . Schuster returned to Germany on November 14, 1911, was placed at the disposal of the torpedo inspection department and completed submarine training. From December 30, 1911 to September 29, 1913 he acted as an officer on watch on the submarine U 4 and in the same function after the outbreak of the First World War until October 4, 1914 on the small cruiser Strasbourg . He was then briefly commanded to provide information to the torpedo division boat D 5 and from November 3, 1914 to May 28, 1915 as an officer on watch on U 35 . Until September 15, 1916, Schuster worked first as a teacher, then as the commander of the D 6 torpedo division boat belonging to the submarine school . In the meantime he had been promoted to lieutenant captain on November 16, 1915 . At the end of September 1916 he took part in the building instruction of U 60 at AG Weser for a month and became the first commander of the submarine on November 1, 1916 after it was put into service. Under his leadership a total of 35 ships with 75,400 GRT could be sunk by November 25, 1917 . Schuster then gave up the command and came back to the submarine school. This time as a teacher and second adjutant.

Imperial Navy

With the end of the war, Schuster was initially made available to the submarine inspection, then taken over to the Reichsmarine and used in the staff of the naval station of the Baltic Sea . From September 23, 1919 to May 19, 1920, Schuster served on board the small cruiser Regensburg as a navigational officer and was then transferred back to the Baltic Sea naval station. Here he acted as second or first adjutant. From April 13, 1923 to November 3, 1924, Schuster was deployed as first officer on the small cruiser Thetis and promoted to Corvette Captain on May 1, 1924 . As such, he came to the staff of the Naval Station of the Baltic Sea as first admiral staff officer and remained in this position until May 31, 1927. In the meantime, he was repeatedly entrusted with the representation of the chief of staff in his department. From June 1 to September 23, Schuster was made available and then transferred to the ship of the line Hessen until September 30, 1929 . There he was first used as a navigator, then as a first officer and promoted to frigate captain on August 1, 1929 . He spent the following two years from October 1, 1929 to September 18, 1931 in the Fleet Department (A II) of the naval command . From 19 September 1931 he was a teacher in the leader assistant training involved the Navy, where he in 1931 on October 1 Captain was.

From September 27, 1933 to February 28, 1935, Schuster acted as commander of the Schleswig-Holstein liner , was then briefly placed at the disposal of the chief of naval command and was then a member of the commission that led naval negotiations with Great Britain . These resulted in the conclusion of the German-British fleet agreement .

Navy

On 1 May 1935 he was Rear Admiral and shortly afterwards used from June 28 to September 24, 1935 as II. Admiral of the North Sea (II A d N). He then acted as 2nd Admiral of the Baltic Sea (II A d O) until March 31, 1938 , from January 1938 as 2nd Admiral of the Baltic Sea Station, and was at the same time from October 1, 1937 to March 31, 1938 with the perception entrusted the business of the commander in securing the Baltic Sea . When he was promoted to Vice Admiral on April 1, 1938, he was also appointed Commander of Securing the Baltic Sea. At the same time, Schuster was in charge of representing the chief of the test command for new warships from June 3 to 19, and representing the commander of the fortifications of the western Baltic Sea from July 20 to August 3, 1938. From October 28, 1938, beyond the beginning of the Second World War, until November 1, 1939, Schuster was the inspector of the Navy's education system.

He then came to the High Command of the Wehrmacht and became Chief of the Trade and Economic War Staff there. As an admiral (since January 1, 1940) he was appointed commanding Admiral West on May 27, 1940. This office led Schuster even after the renaming to Commanding Admiral France until March 1, 1941. Schuster was then appointed from March 4 to April 3, 1941 as commander of the temporary Admiral Z department , from which the Admiral Southeast department emerged. On June 30, 1941, another reorganization took place and Schuster now acts as Commander-in-Chief of the Marine Group Command South . On March 21, 1943, he was made available to the Commander in Chief of the Navy and adopted on June 30, 1943.

Schuster continued to work as a civil servant officer and served from July 1, 1943 to May 8, 1945 as head of the war science department in the High Command of the Navy . After the surrender of the Wehrmacht , he was taken prisoner by the United States and released on May 23, 1947.

literature

  • Hans H. Hildebrand and Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945, Volume 3: PZ (Packroß to Zuckschwerdt) , Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-2482-4 , pp. 313-315

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ranking list of the German Reichsmarine , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1929, p. 42
  2. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall and Veit Scherzer : Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, history and owner Volume II , Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X , p. 433
personal data
SURNAME Schuster, Karlgeorg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, most recently admiral in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Uelzen
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1973
Place of death Kitzeberg