Werner Töniges
Werner Töniges (born January 7, 1910 in Oberhausen ; † January 25, 1995 in Essen ) was a German naval officer in the Navy , most recently corvette captain in World War II . On 281 patrols he sank 18 ships with 86,200 gross register tonnes (GRT) . He was the first speedboat driver to receive the oak leaves for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross .
Life
Werner Töniges was the son of the Oberhausen mine director August Töniges. On April 5, 1935, Töniges switched from the merchant navy to the navy. Since 1937, lieutenant , he took on the Admiral Graf Spee in the Civil War Spanish part. He switched to the Schnellboot and was in command of S 24 , S 26 and S 102 (1st Schnellbootflotille). Captain Friedrich Kemnade followed him on S 102 .
Töniges sank 18 war and merchant ships and two submarines . At the end of September 1942 he was transferred to the Mürwik Naval School as head of inspection . There he received the speedboat war badge with diamonds. From September 1943 he served as a training officer in the Navy High Command , where he was promoted to Corvette Captain on January 1, 1945 .
After the war he was an independent businessman in Witten . He died shortly after his 85th birthday.
Awards
- Iron Cross (1939)
- 2nd class (June 24, 1940)
- 1st class (July 6, 1940)
- Spain Cross (June 6, 1939)
- Medal in memory of October 1, 1938 (December 20, 1939)
- Finnish Order of the Freedom Cross 4th Class (November 4, 1941)
- Speedboat war badge
- Schnellboot War Badge (January 28, 1941)
- Speedboat War Badge with Diamonds (December 16, 1942)
- Krimschild (August 16, 1943)
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (February 25, 1941) as first lieutenant at sea and commander of S 102
- Eichenlaub zum Ritterkreuz (143rd award, November 13, 1942) as lieutenant captain and commander of S 102
literature
- Manfred dried: The Ritterkreuzträger the above water forces the Navy, Vol. 2: L-Z . Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1996. ISBN 978-3-7648-2497-6 .
- Franz Kurowski : Corvette Captain Werner Töniges. The first oak leaf bearer of the speedboat weapon . Flechsig, Würzburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-88189-737-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lieutenant Captain August Töniges. In: Peter Paul Möbius : Schnellboote. K. Curtius, Berlin 1943, p. 312.
- ↑ Department Book of 1934er, compiled in April, 1954 ( Wehrgeschichtliches Training Center of the Naval Academy Mürwik )
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Dörr 1996, p. 296.
- ↑ a b Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 1939–1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 747.
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SURNAME | Töniges, Werner |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German naval officer and speedboat commander in World War II |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1910 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberhausen |
DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1995 |
Place of death | eat |