Rolf Martens (naval officer)

Rolf Martens (born September 30, 1938 in Horst , Steinburg district) is a German naval officer ( captain at sea a. D. ) and political scientist.

Career

Martens passed his Abitur in 1958 at the Bismarck School in Elmshorn . In the same year he joined the German Navy as a trainee officer . After three years of training as an officer, he served as an officer on watch on the school frigate Brommy and the escort boat Emden, and as a lecture hall director at the Mürwik naval school . From 1964 to 1965, after training at US Navy schools , he was a missile officer on the US destroyer USS Claude V. Ricketts (DDG-5). The deployment of this ship with a mixed crew from seven nations has become known as the “Mixed Manning Demonstration” and was related to the plans for the Nuclear Multilateral Force (MLF). Martens was a participant in the 11th Admiral Staff Officer course at the Command Academy of the Bundeswehr (1969-1971) and was awarded the General Heusinger Prize .

After he was promoted to corvette captain , he was employed in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS) as a staff officer with the chief of staff with the promotion to frigate captain in October 1973 and - interrupted by a two-year period on board as first officer on the destroyer Lütjens - another three years In the FüS as Adjutant Marine to the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr , Admiral Armin Zimmermann and General Harald Wust . From 1979 to 1981 Rolf Martens was in command of the destroyer Rommel . In October 1980 he was promoted to sea captain.

Until 1984 he was Head of Operation (A3) at the Commander of the Naval Forces in the North Sea and from 1984 to 1986 Head of Operational Planning at the Commander of the Fleet . He ended active service in the Navy in 1986 under the Personnel Structure Act.

Until 1993 he was sales manager at Oerlikon / Contraves GmbH Stockach, most recently a member of the management team. Since 1990 he has been living in Freiburg / Breisgau. From 1994 he studied political science, English, Romance studies and European ethnology at the Philosophical Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University there ; He passed his master's degree in 2002 with the political science thesis The Minister President's Conferences. From 2002 he was a lecturer at the Chair of Political Theory and History of Ideas with Gisela Riescher . Until 2009 he held seminars on the subject of war and peace in the history of political ideas and constitutional theory.

Rolf Martens is married and has a son († 2009), a daughter and three grandchildren.

Awards

• Navy & Marine Corps Commendation Medal (1965)
• General Heusinger Prize (1971)
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1978)
• Gold Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr (1985)

Memberships

• Navy Officers Association (MOV) (since 1961)
• German Maritime Institute (DMI) (since 1974; founding member)
• Clausewitz Society (since 1986)
• Freiburg Monday Society (since 2008).

Fonts (selection)

• The Prime Minister's Conferences . Ergon. Wuerzburg 2003.
• Operation Chariot. The defense of a commando company on St. Nazaire on March 27 and 28, 1942. In: Military History Research Office (Hrsg.): Leadership problems of the Navy in World War II. Individual writings Volume 13. Rombach. Freiburg 1973, 1986 (2), pp. 55-95.
• 21st Command Conference of the Bundeswehr. Assessment of the position of our armed forces from outside. In: Marineforum Bonn. 52nd year, June 1977, issue 6/1977, pp. 138-143.
• Naval command system . In: Wust / Himburg: The military command system. Bernhard and Graefe. Frankfurt am Main 1974, pp. 47-55.
• The Federal Republic and NATO today. In: MOV News. News bulletin of the Navy Officers Association. Bonn. 48th Volume, No. 3 March 1973, pp. 87-90.
• US Navy guided missile destroyer. In: Köhlers Flottenkalender 57th year 1969. Koehler, Herford 1969, pp. 103-108
• 25 years of the German Marine Institute. In: MarineForum, 1999, Issue 1/2, pp. 18 - 21, Bonn.
• Written estate in the Federal Archives / Military Archives , BArch N889

literature

• German Marine Institute (ed.): Sea power and history. Festschrift for Friedrich Ruge's 80th birthday. Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1975, p. 7.
• Rolf Steinhaus: SoldierDiplomat. Koehler, Herford 1983, p. 148.
• Wolfgang Harnack: The destroyer flotilla of the German Navy. Koehler, Herford 2001, p. 103, p. 108.
• Jak P. Mallmann-Showell: Hitler's U-Boat Bases. Gloucestershire 2002. Translation: German submarine bases and bunkers. In: Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 2003, pp. 206–212.
• Joachim Samuel Eichhorn: Prime Minister's Conferences: Overview with some gaps. In: Journal for Parliamentary Issues, Issue 1/2006, pp. 227–228.
• Eva Voß: Diversity in University. Jos Fritz Verlag, Freiburg 2011, p. I.
• Wilhelm Knelangen: Review of: Rolf Martens: The Prime Minister's Conferences. Wuerzburg 2003 . In: Portal for Political Science . January 1, 2006 ( online [accessed March 11, 2016]).