Paul Kriebel

Paul Kriebel (front right) at a memorial ceremony on the grounds of MFG 5 in Kiel-Holtenau (1973)

Paul Kriebel (born January 29, 1917 in Berlin ; † April 6, 2015 in Cuxhaven ) was a German naval officer , most recently a flotilla admiral in the German Navy .

Life

Luftwaffe and World War II

After graduating from high school, Kriebel joined the Wehrmacht Air Force . He was on the air war school 3 Wildpark Werder near Berlin for pilots trained and then assigned to the air commander Air Force (lake). Kriebel flew float planes in the Baltic Sea , North Sea , Atlantic and Mediterranean . In 1942 he took over the job of a squadron chief of a maritime reconnaissance squadron in Crete. He was shot down twice during the war. At the end of the war he served as a captain at the pilot's leader in the Baltic Sea.

post war period

At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the British . After his release, he was employed at the American Consulate General in Hamburg , then in air traffic control in Hanover .

Federal Navy

In November 1956, Kriebel joined the German Navy as a lieutenant captain and took part in a six-month pilot training course for the naval aviators of the United States Navy . From 1958 he was used as a pilot on submarine fighters of the type Fairey Gannet . He was involved in the formation of the Navy anti-submarine squadron in Northern Ireland and became their second squadron captain.

In April 1964 he, meanwhile in the rank of frigate captain , was commissioned with the establishment of the Naval Aviation Squadron 3 at the Nordholz Air Base , which was to grow up from the naval submarine squadron. Kriebel became the first commodore of this squadron in 1965 . A major task during this time was to introduce the new Breguet BR.1150 Atlantic anti -submarine aircraft and maritime patrol aircraft .

In 1969, Kriebel, who had meanwhile been promoted to captain at sea , left Nordholz and became chief of staff in the fleet command , then head of department in the naval command . In 1972 he took over command of the naval aviation division as a flotilla admiral , which he led until his retirement in 1977.

Awards

• Iron Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st class
• Front flight clasp in gold for over 300 enemy flights
• Cross of Merit First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1973)

literature

• Helmut Kampe : Obituary . In: MOV-MOH-DMI-Nachrichten. 7 / 8-2015 P. 64 *