Walter Heck

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Walter August Heck (born May 16, 1910 in Görlitz ; † February 28, 1987 in Bonn ) was a German naval officer, most recently a flotilla admiral in the Bundeswehr.

Life

Promotions

Imperial Navy

Heck joined the Reichswehr in 1929 . He started with the ship master division of the Baltic Sea in Stralsund and attended the naval school Mürwik . In 1930 he became a midshipman on the light cruiser Karlsruhe . This was followed by training stations at naval schools in Kiel and Mürwik as well as on the SMS Silesia . In 1933 he became director of the Technical Naval School in Kiel . After that he was 2nd administrative officer of the VI. Marine Artillery Department (1933).

Navy and studies

Then he was 2nd administrative officer on the light cruiser Nuremberg (1935) and again the VI. Marine Artillery Department (1936). He became a group officer for cadets (V) at the Mürwik naval school, later training officer for cadets (V) on the cruiser Silesia and group officer for ensigns (V) at the Mürwik naval school. In 1937 he became a ship management officer on the destroyer Leberecht Maass . In 1938 he was appointed assistant to the naval personnel office to study economics at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , which he graduated in 1941 with a degree in economics .

In April 1941 he became an administrative officer with Naval Commander C, later Riga. From October 1941 to December 1943 he was a teacher at the Mürwik Naval School. After a stint as an unskilled worker with the head of the fleet administration in Mürwik, he was again a teacher at the naval school from July 1944 to May 1945.

post war period

After the end of the war he was head of administration at the Mürwik naval base . In September 1945 he took over the management of the marine economic group at the works manager in Flensburg. In 1946 he was then head of the wages department in the Mürwik naval site administration. From 1946 to 1952 he was director of the Schleswig-Holstein administration seminar in Bordesholm. In 1952 he moved to the Federal Audit Office in Frankfurt am Main as a senior government councilor .

Federal Navy

In 1956 he joined the German Armed Forces , initially working in Department VII at the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) in Bonn. In 1957 he attended course IV in Adenau. In 1959 he became head of department in Fü BV 3. In 1962 he was chief of staff in the North Sea naval section command . In 1962/63 he took over the business of commander in the Baltic Sea Section Command and in 1963 he was appointed commander there. In 1963 he was deputy commander of the fleet in Wilhelmshaven. From 1963 he was staff officer DACOS Logistic German Part at SHAPE in Paris. In 1966 he became sub-department head SV in the BMVg and in 1969 in the command staff of the armed forces (Fü SV). In 1970 he retired from service.

Others

From 1976 to 1983 he was spokesman for the advisory board of the Clausewitz Society .

He was married.

Awards

literature

  • Dermot Bradley , Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model : The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr, 1955–1999. The military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals . Part 6b). Volume 2, 2: Gaedcke - Hoff . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-7648-2562-6 , pp. 273-275.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Viktor Toyka , Rüdiger Kracht: Clausewitz Society. Chronicle 1961–2011 . Edited by the Clausewitz Society, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810794-6-3 , p. 268.
  2. ↑ Viktor Toyka , Rüdiger Kracht: Clausewitz Society. Chronicle 1961–2011 . Edited by the Clausewitz Society, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810794-6-3 , p. 56.
personal data
SURNAME Heck, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heck, Robert Walter August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1987
Place of death Bonn