Siegfried Punt

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data from: Admirals of the Reich and Kriegsmarine: Letters L – Qu. BArch , MSG 225/94.
  2. ↑ 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]).
  3. ↑ Punt, Siegfr. In: residents' book for the city and district of Göttingen 1939. Göttinger Tageblatt, Gebrüder Wurm, Göttingen 1939, p. 199 .
  4. ↑ 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]).
  5. ^ 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
personal data
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