Rudolf Arendt (Admiral)

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Rudolf Arendt (born January 25, 1923 in Ballenstedt , Thuringia ) is a Rear Admiral a. D. the German Navy .

Rudolf Arendt as frigate captain in 1966

Life

He attended school in Berlin. During the Second World War , Arendt joined the Navy and was trained as an officer on submarines . On January 1, 1943, he was promoted to lieutenant at sea . He served briefly as commander of U 18 and from June 20, 1944 in the rank of first lieutenant in the sea as the last commander of U 23 , which he ordered to sink itself on September 10, 1944 in the Black Sea off the Turkish coast and found it again in early 2019 has been. Then he went to the Turkey in the detention , which lasted until September 26 1946th

In 1956 Arendt joined the newly founded German Navy. From March 1965 to October 1967 he was the frigate captain and commander of the 2nd Schnellbootgeschwader in Wilhelmshaven . In 1978 he was a flotilla admiral in Department 2 of the Bundeswehr headquarters. In 1980 he rose to the position of Rear Admiral and Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces (FüS).

On March 31, 1983, Rudolf Arendt retired from active service when he reached the age limit. He then sold submarines for HDW for six years until 1989 . He has been widowed since 2016. Arendt lives in Meckenheim in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Honors

Fonts

  • Last command: sink. German submarines in the Black Sea 1942 to 1944. Mittler & Sohn, 1998, ISBN 3-8132-0543-6 .
  • The Navy of the Federal Republic of Germany through the ages (1956–2005). In: JB Sander-Nagashima: The Federal Navy 1950 to 1972. Concept and construction. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57972-X .
  • Attack on Batum - Mission report of the 30th U-Flottile in autumn 1943: Battle of the "small" submarines . In: Schiff Classic , magazine for shipping and marine history eV of the DGSM , yearbook 2020, pp. 34–47, ISBN 978-3-96453-225-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rudolf Arendt, Admiral a. D. , WDR 5, Stories Experience, December 8, 2019
  2. ^ Rudolf Burger: Last exit , faz.net , August 27, 2019
  3. ^ Federal archive stock BM 36 ( Memento from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Neue Berliner Illustrierte, issues 1–26, Im Allgermeinen Deutsche Verlag, 1978, p. 360 [1]
  5. ↑ Sensation submarine from WWII reappeared - captain (96) unpacks , express.de , February 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Arendt, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, rear admiral of the German Navy
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Ballenstedt , Thuringia