Uwe Siegfried Kahre

Uwe Siegfried Kahre (1996)

Uwe Siegfried Kahre (* December 11, 1943 ; † June 7, 2017 ) was a German rear admiral in the navy who was, among other things, commander of the Mürwik naval school between 1996 and 1999 and commander of the military area command I “Coast” from 2003 to 2004 .

Life

After graduating from high school as a member of Crew IV / 1964, Kahre began his training as a naval officer in the German Navy at the Mürwik Naval School on April 1, 1964 . His classmates included Jörg Auer , who later became the commander of the flotilla of the mine forces , chief of the command staff of the armed forces as well as deputy inspector of the navy and chief of staff in the command staff of the navy . After various posts in the German Navy from 1973 to 1976, he attended a course in electrical engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) of the US Navy in Monterey and completed this with a diploma thesis entitled A study of a dielectric backed resonant slot antenna . He then worked in various positions in the naval office , in the Federal Ministry of Defense and in missions abroad. In addition, he was teaching group commander at the Naval Locating School (MOS) in Bremerhaven and as sea ​​captain as the successor to sea captain Karl Heinz Kelle from September 25, 1992 until his replacement by sea captain Reinhard Kühtze on September 7, 1994 commander of the command Naval command systems (KdoMFüSys) at the naval base Heppenser Groden . He then succeeded Flotilla Admiral Konrad Ehrensberger from July 1, 1994 until his replacement by Flotilla Admiral Detlef Kammholz in December 1996, Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Naval Support Command (MUKdo) and Admiral Logistic Forces.

Flotilla Admiral Kahre replaced Flotilla Admiral Götz Eberle as commander of the Mürwik Naval School on December 19, 1996 and remained in this position until September 16, 1999, after which Flotilla Admiral Hubertus von Puttkamer became his successor there. He himself then worked as a rear admiral at the headquarters of the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Command Area Atlantic ACLANT (Allied Command Atlantic) . Most recently, on March 28, 2003, he was the successor to Rear Admiral Dieter Leder as commander of the Defense Division I “Coast” (WBK I) in Kiel . He retired on December 31, 2004 and was then replaced by Major General Heinz-Georg Keerl on January 1, 2005 .

publication

• A study of a dielectric backed resonant slot antenna , 1975

Web links

Commons : Uwe Siegfried Kahre  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Admirals of the German Navy since 1990
• Central offices of the Navy ( Memento from March 9, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
• Private obituary notice in the Bonner General-Anzeiger (June 10, 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Open Access Theses and Dissertations
2. ↑ Command of the naval command systems ( Federal Archives-Military Archives )
3. ↑ Naval Support Commands (Federal Archives-Military Archives)
4. ^ Defense technology , p. 3, volume 29, German Society for Defense Technology eV, Bernard & Graefe publishing house, 1997
5. ↑ Naval School Mürwik (Federal Archives-Military Archives)
6. ↑ Rear Admiral Leder takes his leave ( Die Welt, March 27, 2003)
7. ↑ Rear Admiral Uwe Kahre makes an inaugural visit to Mayor Dr. Scherf (press release of the Bremen Senate Chancellery of April 8, 2003)