Wilhelm Rümann (Admiral)

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Wilhelm Rümann (born November 9, 1881 in Hanover , † March 31, 1946 in Bad Oeynhausen ) was a German rear admiral and SS leader in World War II .

Life

Rümann occurred on 10 April 1899 as a midshipman in the Imperial navy one, completed his basic training on the cruiser frigate SMS Stosch and then came to the Naval Academy Mürwik , where he on 10 April 1900. Midshipman had been appointed. From October 1, 1901 to September 30, 1903, he was used on board the great cruiser SMS Victoria Louise and was promoted to lieutenant at sea on September 27, 1902. Rümann was a company officer in the II Shipyard Division for one year. As part of the Marine Expeditionary Corps, he then fought against the Nama rebels in German South West Africa . After his return he was reassigned to the II Shipyard Division and on March 21, 1905, Lieutenant at Sea . As such, he was employed as a watch officer on the ships of the line SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm and SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II from October 1, 1905 to September 30, 1907. He was then transferred as a company officer to the mining department until September 30, 1909. During this time he was also an officer on watch on torpedo boat S 43 and as commander on S 35 . As a lieutenant captain (since April 10, 1909) Rümann then joined the II. Torpedo Division and was deployed here until the end of March 1913 as a commander on various torpedo boats. From March 28, 1912 to September 20, 1913 he was a torpedo officer on the large-scale ship SMS Thuringia and then returned to service with the II. Torpedo Division. There he commanded the torpedo boat V 151 .

With the outbreak of World War I , he was also entrusted with the management of the chief of the 11th torpedo boat semi-flotilla. On December 5, 1914, he was finally appointed head of the flotilla, which he was to lead until May 1, 1918. Subsequently , Rümann , promoted to Korvettenkapitän on April 26, 1917, took over the V Torpedo Boat Flotilla in the same function until September 20 and then the VI until December 20, 1918. Torpedo boat flotilla. For three months Rümann was department commander of the II. Torpedo Division and from March 7 to 26, 1919 company commander of the I. Marine Brigade. Rümann was assigned to the provisional Reichsmarine of the II. North Sea Minesweeping Flotilla as its chief. From September 4, 1919, he commanded the Wilhelmshaven Coast Guard Regiment , from which the Coast Guard Department was then formed. From September 7, 1920 to March 31, 1923, Rümann acted as the commander of the ship master division of the North Sea and from July 30, 1921 was also head of the settlement office of the North Sea naval station . This was followed by the appointment as chief of the 2nd Flotilla and on November 1, 1923, the promotion to frigate captain . As such, he was once again commander of the ship's crew in the North Sea. On September 10, 1925 was admixed Rümann as head of the Marine Education Department (A III) in the naval command . Here he became sea captain on April 1, 1926 and as such, commander of the liner SMS Schleswig-Holstein on September 30, 1926 . After Rümann had given up command on September 28, 1928, he was appointed chairman of the testing committee for new ships two days later. On September 30, 1930, while being promoted to rear admiral, he retired from active service.

Wilhelm Rümann joined the NSDAP (membership number 1,331,914) and the SS (SS number 276,528) after the " seizure of power " . In the latter he was appointed SS-Standartenführer on May 12, 1936 and on January 30, 1937, he was appointed SS-Oberführer in the staff of the Reichsführer SS . From 1936 to 1938 Rümann was the general manager and staff chief of the Reich Colonial Association .

Rümann was made available to the Navy on March 22nd, 1939 and was deployed as a commander in the Helgoland and Cuxhaven sections after the start of the Second World War. Due to illness, he was unable to work from May 2, 1941 to June 8, 1942. After his recovery he was used again until August 31, 1942 as a commander in the Cuxhaven section, then finally released from military service and retired.

Awards

literature

  • Hans H. Hildebrand and Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849–1945 Volume 3: P – Z (Packroß to Zuckschwerdt) , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-2482-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.dws-xip.pl/reich/biografie/1937/1937.html
  2. ^ Franz von Epp : Call! In: Deutsche Kolonial-Zeitung. No. 8, August 1, 1936, online in the 20th century press kit .
  3. ↑ Wolfe W. Schmokel: The dream of the empire. German colonialism from 1919 to 1945. Sigbert Mohn, Gütersloh 1967, p. 42.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Ranking list of the German Reichsmarine , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1929, p. 40.
  5. ↑ http://www.dws-xip.pl/reich/biografie/1937/1937.html
personal data
SURNAME Rümann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rear admiral in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1946
Place of death Bad Oeynhausen