Uwe Sörensen

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Uwe Sörensen (born February 25, 1920 in Schleswig ; † March 10, 2006 ) was a German naval officer , most recently a flotilla admiral of the German Navy .

Life

Sorensen was the sixth of seven children of his family and grew up in Erfurt , where 1938 he the grammar school to the high school graduated. He then did six months of the Reich Labor Service , during which he was employed in the construction of the western wall . Then he began an internship in a car company.

In September 1939 Sörensen was drafted into the Navy as an engineering officer candidate. Due to an injury, he was downgraded by one year of training and assigned to Crew XII / 39 . During the Second World War he served on the destroyer Z 29 , as a group officer at the Naval School Mürwik and finally as a first watch engineer and division officer on the destroyer Z 38 . After the war he stayed on this ship and transferred it to Great Britain, where Sörensen had to train Royal Navy personnel on the destroyer's technical systems until 1946 .

After returning to Germany, Sörensen passed the journeyman's and later the master craftsman's examination in the automotive trade and went into business for himself. From 1953 to 1956 he trained as a trade teacher in Wilhelmshaven and then worked as such for a short time in Schleswig.

In April 1956 he joined the German Navy with the rank of lieutenant captain and initially held several teaching positions at the Technical Naval School I in Kiel . From December 1959 to February 1962 he was a corvette captain and ship engineering officer on the first crew of destroyer 4, which was taken over by the US Navy .

Subsequently, Sörensen, now in the rank of frigate captain , served as a department head for the training of officers and NCOs in the naval office . As a sea captain , he was head of department in the Federal Ministry of Defense for five years and stage manager for ship technology in the naval office for another year . In 1971 he was promoted to Flotilla Admiral in the same post Admiral Naval Armament. He held this position until his retirement in March 1979.

literature

  • Gerhard Frühhe, obituary. In: MOV-MOH-DMI-Nachrichten 5-2006, p. 27 * f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Harnack. The destroyer flotilla of the German Navy from 1958 until today. Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0816-1 , p. 87
personal data
SURNAME Sörensen, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, admiral naval armor
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2006