Wilhelm Hadeler

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Wilhelm Hadeler (born November 12, 1897 in Lauenburg , † December 3, 1987 in Berlin ) was a German ship designer, naval officer, teacher for shipbuilding and published articles and books related to the navy.

Life

Wilhelm Hadeler graduated from high school in 1917, then worked for the shipyard and machine factory JG Hitzler in Lauenburg and did his military service. From autumn 1920 to March 1925 he studied shipbuilding at the Technical University of Berlin / Charlottenburg and passed the diploma examination as a shipbuilder. After graduating in 1925, he remained an assistant for warship construction at the Technical University of Berlin / Charlottenburg for the next nine years.

In April 1934 he was appointed to the design office of the German Navy to work out the design for an aircraft carrier . With the award of the contract for aircraft carriers A and B in November 1935, Hadeler was responsible for the design and construction supervision of aircraft carrier A , which also provided the design data for sister ship aircraft carrier B.

In the summer of 1939, Hadeler successfully passed the master ship builder examination. In November 1939 his work on the construction of the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin ended and he subsequently became director of the naval shipyards in Kiel and Wilhelmshaven and the Gotenhafen arsenal . From August 1942 to spring 1943 he was head of the construction supervision of the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin at the German works in Kiel .

1943-44 he served as an advisor for the High Command of the Navy. In 1945 he was a shipbuilding teacher in Flensburg - Mürwik . When he left the Navy in 1945, he had the rank of naval chief construction officer.

After the war, Hadeler worked in industry. From autumn 1956 to autumn 1962 he worked again in the German Navy as a shipbuilding teacher at the Mürwik Naval School .

Publications

  • Aircraft ships, JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich / Berlin 1939
  • The aircraft carrier , JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1968
  • Warship building , 2 volumes, Verlag Wehr und Wissen, Darmstadt 1968

literature

  • Hans H. Hildebrand / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: THE GERMAN WAR SHIPS Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present, Volume 3, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg, licensed edition by Mundus Verlag, without further information, page 242

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The aircraft carrier", JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1968, page 106
personal data
SURNAME Hadeler, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ship designer, naval officer, shipbuilding instructor and published marine-related articles and books
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauenburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1987
Place of death Berlin