Siegfried Punt
Siegfried Punt (born February 26, 1881 on Gut Mittelfaulbrück, Reichenbach district , † October 5, 1960 in Göttingen ) was a German rear admiral .
Life
Siegfried Punt was born in Silesia . At the beginning of 1899 he joined the Prussian Navy as a midshipman and received his basic training on the training ship Moltke . A short time later he was promoted to ensign at sea . After several on-board missions, he was promoted to lieutenant at sea in April 1902. He then served on various ships as a watch officer and artillery officer, including on the Fürst Bismarck .
On January 27, 1916 he was promoted to corvette captain. After the First World War , Punt was awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class, in 1918 . After the sailors' uprising in Kiel , he took over the interrogation of the revolutionaries. He became commander of the ship artillery school in Kiel and in this position in early 1921 a frigate captain . On November 30, 1928, he was promoted to Rear Admiral on his retirement .
On May 23, 1939, at that time living in Geismar , he was returned to the Navy from retirement . During the Second World War he was first employed in Norway as a representative of the Kongsberg arms factory , later as chief shipyard director of the navy shipyard in Bordeaux and finally came to the Führerreserve . He was finally retired on January 31, 1943.
Siegfried Punt was married and the father of five children.
Publications
- Electrotechnical reference book for artillery specialists in the Imperial Navy. Mittler , Berlin 1914 [2nd, presumably u. verb. Edition 1918].
- The superiority of the German naval artillery in the world war. In: Marine-Rundschau , vol. 30 (1925), pp. 205-219
- Guide to artillery lessons in the Reichsmarine. Part 1: Ballistics. Edited on behalf of the naval management , Mittler, Berlin, 1931.
- Guide to artillery lessons in the Reichsmarine. Part 2: gun mechanics. Edited together with Walter Tschiersch on behalf of and assisted by the naval management, Mittler, Berlin, 1933.
Web links
- Literature by and about Siegfried Punt in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data from: Admirals of the Reich and Kriegsmarine: Letters L – Qu. BArch , MSG 225/94.
- ↑ Klaus Franken: From black-white-red to black-red-gold: The transition from sea officers of the Imperial Navy to the Navy of the Weimar Republic . BWV Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-3878-3 , pp. 61 ( google.de [accessed on November 1, 2018]).
- ↑ Punt, Siegfr. In: residents' book for the city and district of Göttingen 1939. Göttinger Tageblatt, Gebrüder Wurm, Göttingen 1939, p. 199 .
- ↑ Jak P. Mallmann Showell: Hitler's U-boat Bases . Sutton, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7509-2606-5 , pp. 178 ( google.de [accessed on November 1, 2018]).
- ^ Siegfried Punt (1881-1960). In: Siegfried Sorge : From the Empire to the Federal Republic. From the writings of a committed officer and citizen. ES Mittler, Berlin 1993, p. 48. ISBN 978-3-8132-0407-0
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SURNAME | Punt, Siegfried |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rear admiral |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1881 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gut Mittelfaulbrück, Reichenbach district |
DATE OF DEATH | 5th October 1960 |
Place of death | Goettingen |