Otto H. Ciliax

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Otto Hermann Ciliax (born June 21, 1939 in Wilhelmshaven ; † June 14, 2016 in Kiel ) was a German naval officer ( flotilla admiral ).

origin

He was born in 1939 as the son of naval officer Otto Ciliax (1891–1964).

Military background

Promotions

Ciliax joined Crew IV / 59 in Glücksstadt in 1959 and was trained as a naval officer. He then served as a torpedo and anti-submarine fighter officer on the destroyer Z 4. In 1963, he became lecture director at the Mürwik naval school in Flensburg. In 1964/65 he took part in the submarine hunting / torpedo B course. In 1965 he became the first officer on watch and in 1966 the commander of the speedboat "Häher" . 1969 followed the USA training and his employment as a submarine hunting officer on the destroyer "Rommel" . In 1971/72 he was lecture director at the marine underwater weapons school in Eckernförde.

From 1972 to 1974 he took part as a corvette captain in the 14th admiral staff course at the leadership academy of the Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) in Hamburg. For his annual work, he was honored in 1974 with the "General von Clausewitz Medal of Honor" from the Clausewitz Society . Then he was S3 of the 3rd Schnellbootgeschwader (SGschw). From 1976 to 1978 he was then commander of the 5th Schnellbootgeschwader. Subsequently he was a consultant in the command staff of the armed forces (Fü S III 2). From 1980 to 1983 he was Assistant Chief of Staff Plans Division at HQ Allied Forces Northern Europe (AFNORTH) in Kolsås. In 1984/85 he was Head of Division Fü M VI 1 and from 1985 to 1991 Head of the Planning Department in the Naval Management Staff (Fü M VI) in Bonn.

From 1991 to 1994 he was commander of the Rostock naval command - commander of the naval forces and section commander - in Rostock. In 1995 he was Deputy Admiral Naval Training in the Naval Office (MarA) in Wilhelmshaven. In his last employment he was deputy commander and commander of the military area troops of the military area command (WBK) I / 6th Panzer Grenadier Division in Kiel . He was retired on September 30, 1998.

Others

In 1997 he was a founding board member of the Societas Theologicum Ordinem Adiuvantium (STOA) at the Theological Faculty of the University of Kiel.

Until 2010 he was head of the Schleswig-Holstein regional district of the German Atlantic Society .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Use in the Baltic Sea . In: Bruno Thoss (Ed.): From the Cold War to German Unity. Analyzes and eyewitness reports on German military history from 1945 to 1995 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56160-X , p. 619 ff.
  • Military aspects of European security (from a German perspective) . In: Lennart Souchon , Kai Hirschmann (ed.): The German-Polish cooperation in questions of security policy. Building on the Franco-German experience. Discussion papers of the 1st German-Polish workshop from November 28th to 30th, 1994 in Berlin (= series of publications on the new security policy . Vol. 11). Mittler, Hamburg a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-8132-0466-9 , p. 96 ff.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley , Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model : The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr, 1955–1999. The military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals . Part 6b). Volume 1: Adam - Fuhr . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1998, ISBN 3-7648-2492-1 , pp. 325–326.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Hartwig: Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz. Legend and reality. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-77027-1 , p. 313.
  2. ↑ Hendrik Killi: The speed boats of the Federal Navy . Mittler, Berlin a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0528-2 , p. 86.
  3. ^ Detlef Bald , Wilhelm Nolte, Hans-Heinrich Steyreiff: General staff training between society and the military. The annual work archive . Edited by the command academy of the Bundeswehr and the Clausewitz Society , Mittler, Herford u. a. 1991, ISBN 3-8132-0375-1 , p. 47.
  4. ↑ Viktor Toyka , Rüdiger Kracht: Clausewitz Society. Chronicle 1961–2011 . Published by the Clausewitz Society , Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810794-6-3 , p. 223.
  5. ↑ a b c See The authors : Bruno Thoss (Ed.): From the Cold War to German Unity. Analyzes and eyewitness reports on German military history from 1945 to 1995 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56160-X , p. 721.
  6. ^ Klaus Blaschke, Peter Lampe: STOA and Dies Theologicus . In: Philipp David (Ed.): Theology in public. Contributions from the Kiel Theological University Days from 1997 to 2006 (= Kiel Theological Series . Vol. 5). Lit, Hamburg a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0354-4 , p. 1.
  7. ^ Dermot Bradley et al .: The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr. Volume 1: Adam – Fuhr. Biblio, Osnabrück 1998, ISBN 3-7648-2492-1 , p. 326
personal data
SURNAME Ciliax, Otto H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ciliax, Otto Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer (flotilla admiral)
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshaven
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2016
Place of death Kiel