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Ludwig Stummel (born August 5, 1898 in Kevelaer , † November 30, 1983 in Kronberg im Taunus ) was a German rear admiral and head of the naval intelligence service .

Life

After graduating from high school during the First World War, Stummel joined the Imperial Navy as a volunteer with the prospect of a career as a naval officer . He went through basic and basic training at the Naval School Mürwik as well as on the training ship Freya and on the liner Kronprinz . On March 1, 1918, he was transferred to the Hanover liner and in mid-September was promoted to lieutenant at sea.

After the end of the war , from December 1918 to January 1919, Stummel was briefly available to the I. Marine Inspection and transferred as a company officer to the I. Marine Brigade. This was followed by a three-month assignment as a platoon leader in the Schutztruppen regiment under Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and in the same capacity from September 9, 1919 with the III. Marine Brigade . On July 1, 1920, Stummel was taken over into the Reichsmarine . He was initially a platoon leader in the ship master's detachment in the Baltic Sea as well as a company officer in the II. Department of the ship master's division of the Baltic Sea and was temporarily available to the commander of the land forces of the Baltic Sea. As a first lieutenant in the sea he was on June 25, 1922 department officer in the intelligence department of the naval station of the Baltic Sea . From May 1923 to February 1924 he was an FT and watch officer on board the small cruiser Thetis and then a naval intelligence officer in Neumünster . At the same time, in May / June 1926, Stumme was a substitute FT officer on board the liner Alsace . From October 1926 he held the post of Naval Intelligence Officer South for a year, before being transferred to the Intelligence Research Institute as an assistant to inspect torpedoes and mines. On April 4, 1929, Stummel was placed at the disposal of the chief of the naval command and assigned to the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg . Here he completed an engineering degree and was promoted to lieutenant captain in early August 1929 .

After completing his studies, Stummel was used as an FT officer on the Schleswig-Holstein liner until the end of September 1933 . On board the ship, he went on a naval voyage to Norway in the summer of 1931 and to Oslo a year later in June 1932 . He was then a company commander at the torpedo and intelligence school and at the same time head of the naval intelligence school . On September 25, 1935, he was transferred as 4th Admiral Staff Officer to the fleet command and a few days later he was promoted to corvette captain and at the beginning of April 1939 to frigate captain .

After the beginning of the Second World War , Stummel was appointed head of the naval intelligence department at the High Command of the Navy on December 28, 1939 . From June 16, 1941 to April 30, 1943, as captain at sea, he was chief of the central department of the naval intelligence service group. After being promoted to rear admiral, he was appointed head of the naval intelligence service group. For two months in August / September 1943, he was also entrusted with the management of the department head of the marine tactical radio measurement service. Due to illness, Stumme had to give up his post on August 17, 1944 and was available to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy until mid-November 1944 . Subsequently, he was employed as a higher commander of the naval intelligence and location schools until he was again made available to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy on March 16, 1945. With the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , Stummel became a prisoner of war , from which he was released on October 4, 1946.

Ludwig Stummel died on November 30, 1983 in Kronberg im Taunus.

literature

• Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 3: P-Z. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 , pp. 416-417.