Kurt of the Borne (Admiral)

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Kurt Gotthelf Kreuzwendedich von dem Borne (born November 24, 1885 in Bromberg ; † January 31, 1946 ) was a German naval officer , most recently vice admiral in World War II .

Life

origin

Borne came from the Brandenburg aristocratic family from the Borne . He was the son of the Prussian infantry general of the same name, Kurt von dem Borne , who was married to Marie Hentschel for the first time.

Military career

Imperial Navy and First World War

Borne came on April 6, 1904 as a midshipman in the Imperial Navy and received his basic training at the training ship SMS Stosch . He then completed the naval school by the end of September 1906 and was in the meantime appointed ensign at sea on April 11, 1905 . He was then used on board the liner SMS Lothringen , where he was promoted to lieutenant at sea on September 28, 1907 . It was then used from the beginning of October 1907 to the end of March 1909 on the training ships SMS König Wilhelm and SMS Charlotte . As a first lieutenant at sea , Borne was subsequently a watch officer on the large cruisers SMS Hansa , SMS Blücher and SMS Moltke . From October 1, 1913, Borne was at the disposal of the I. Shipyard Division in Kiel and then came on January 15, 1914 as an artillery officer on the small cruiser SMS Karlsruhe, which had just been put into service . Borne embarked on the journey to the Caribbean by ship, where the cruiser was used in station service.

With the outbreak of World War I , the ship successfully waged cruiser warfare . A total of 17 ships were sunk or brought in as a prize . After violent explosions occurred on the Karlsruhe , which led to the ship's sinking east of the island of Trinidad , Borne returned home as one of the survivors on the accompanying steamer Rio Negro . There he was used from December 22, 1914 to January 25, 1915 as an artillery officer on the auxiliary cruiser Vineta . Then Borne was at the disposal of the I. Marine Inspection and on March 7, 1915, he was transferred to the small cruiser SMS Regensburg as an artillery officer. There he was promoted to lieutenant captain on June 17, 1915 . From May 29 to July 14, 1917 Borne worked as an artillery instructor on the artillery training ship SMS Kaiserin Augusta . Then he belonged to the ship tribe of SMS Cöln until January 16, 1918 , on which he was then used as an artillery officer after commissioning. On September 20, 1918, Borne disembarked and was transferred to the staff of the commander of the torpedo boat forces as the third admiralty staff officer.

Imperial Navy

After the end of the war, Borne was made available to the naval command until mid-February 1919 and briefly assigned to the service of the naval admiral's staff. This was followed by assignments in the war science department of the admiralty's staff and as a department head in the central department of the admiralty. On September 9, 1920, Borne was retired from active service.

On February 1, 1925 Borne was taken over as a civilian employee in the Reichsmarine and employed as a clerk in the naval management. With his reactivation as a state protection officer with the rank of frigate captain , he then came to the economic department of the naval command.

Navy and World War II

With the transfer of the Reichsmarine to the Kriegsmarine , the economic department was renamed the military economic department in March 1936. When he was promoted to captain at sea on April 1, 1936, Borne became head of the department on behalf of him. On June 1, 1936, he was finally appointed head of the military economics department. Borne held this post from the beginning of the Second World War until November 19, 1939. This was followed by his employment as head of the military economics office of the navy. In this capacity Borne was transferred to the troop officers on July 1, 1940 and at the same time promoted to rear admiral. On September 1, 1942, he became a vice admiral . From November 1, 1942 to July 31, 1944, Borne worked for the Navy High Command as head of the Armaments and Defense Economy Office and was then made available to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy until September 30, 1944. On this date, Borne was retired from active service, but a day later it was made available again to the Navy, but without being used for active military service.

From the end of September 1945 Borne was in Soviet captivity , in which he later died. The circumstances of death and the place of death are not known. The date of death was officially set.

family

Borne married Ruth von Lewinski (* 1896 in Metz ) in Hamburg on June 9, 1917 . This marriage resulted in three children, of whom the eldest son also went to the Navy and served on board a submarine during World War II .

Awards

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (Ed.), Hans H. Hildebrand: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 1: A-G. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1988. ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 . Pp. 148-149.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. Part A. 41st year. Gotha 1942. p. 39.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the German admirals who died and were taken prisoner in connection with the Second World War ( Memento of April 7, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) from: Archive of Geocities.com
  2. ↑ a b c d Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy. Ed .: Marinekabinett . Ernst Siegfried Mittler and son. Berlin 1918. p. 39.
personal data
SURNAME Borne, Kurt from that
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borne, Kurt Gotthelf Kreuzwendedich from the (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, most recently vice admiral
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1946