Werner Stichling

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Werner Stichling (born November 26, 1895 in Gotha , † January 29, 1979 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German naval officer and most recently Rear Admiral in the Navy .

Life

Stickleback joined the Imperial Navy on April 1, 1914 as a midshipman . He was trained on SMS Victoria Louise and initially served on board SMS Derfflinger during the First World War . After further service on the small cruiser SMS Frankfurt , he received submarine training from September 1918 . His achievements during the war were recognized by the award of both classes of the Iron Cross . After the end of the war he was a member of the Loewenfeld Navy Brigade from March 1919 to the end of May 1920 and was then taken over into the Reichsmarine .

Stickleback initially served as a company officer in the ship trunk detachment or ship trunk division of the Baltic Sea. Here he was promoted to First Lieutenant at Sea on September 28, 1920 , and from November 3, 1920 to March 14, 1924, he was employed as an adjutant and company commander of Coast Defense Division III. Then stickleback was six months until the ship was decommissioned as an officer on watch on board the small cruiser Medusa . He was then transferred to the Hessian ship tribe and served as an officer on watch on the liner from February 15, 1925 to September 23, 1926 . As a lieutenant captain , stickleback was a company commander in the 5th Marine Artillery Department until the end of September 1927, when he was made available to the chief of naval command and sent to the Technical University of Charlottenburg . From September 24, 1928 to September 27, 1932, Stichling worked as a teacher at the ship artillery school, was then an artillery officer on the light cruiser Cologne and in this position on July 1, 1933 promoted to captain of the corvette . On September 29, 1934, he was transferred to naval leadership. For the next four years, stickleback worked as a consultant for artillery development in the weapons office. In the meantime promoted to frigate captain, he was appointed commander of the 6th Marine Artillery Division on November 7, 1938.

At the beginning of the Second World War , stickleback was in command of the island of Borkum as a sea ​​captain . In 1940 he became sea ​​commander for Normandy and chief of staff at the Admiral Northern France. From December 1940 to August 1942 he was in command of the light cruiser Leipzig , which was used as a training ship , with which he took part in the battles for the Baltic islands of Dagö and Ösel with the so-called Baltic fleet under Vice Admiral Otto Ciliax in autumn 1941 . As the longest-serving commander, after the dissolution of the Baltic Fleet, until April 1942 he provisionally led the training association of the fleet, to which the school cruisers and school ships of the Navy were subordinate.

After completing his command as a commanding officer on the Leipzig , stickleback became a recognized expert in coastal artillery, commander of the Kirkenes naval defense and then coastal commander in the Western Baltic Sea . At the same time, from November 15, 1943, he was also the commander of the 1st Marine Flak Brigade, which was subordinate to the Coast Commander and which he commanded until shortly before the end of the war. After regrouping the Coast Commander West Baltic Sea in November 1944, he was appointed Commandant of the Naval Defense of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg until April 1945 . In May 1945 he was released from all other posts.

After the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , stickleback was in Allied captivity and internment until February 24, 1948. He then worked commercially in Hamburg and Unna before retiring in Freiburg.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 3: P-Z. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1700-3 , pp. 385-386.
  • Rudolf Niemann: Obituary. In: MOH-Mitteilungen / MOV-Nachrichten 4-1982. P. 24.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reichswehr Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsmarine. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1929, p. 46.
  2. ↑ Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Volume 4, 1st edition, Herford 1982, ISBN 3-7822-0235-X , p. 76ff.
personal data
SURNAME Stickleback, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rear admiral of the Kriegsmarine
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1979
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau