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Wolf Junge (born January 5, 1903 in Schwarzenberg / Saxony ; † February 21, 1964 ) was a German naval officer in the Reichsmarine and later the Kriegsmarine .

Life

Family and education

Wolf Junge was the son of the district judge Max Junge and his wife Elise, née Otto. After successfully passing the Abitur in March 1922 at the Princely School Grimma near Leipzig, Junge joined the Reichsmarine as a volunteer sailor. By October 3, 1922 he received his first infantry basic training at the Swinoujscie Coast Defense Department. This was followed by a command on the liner Hannover until April 3, 1923 . Afterwards, Junge was deployed on the sailing training ship Niobe until June 30, 1923 . Immediately afterwards, he was transferred to the cruiser Berlin for his first practical on-board training until March 29, 1924 and thus took part in the first long trip abroad to Ponta Delgada, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, La Luz / Las Palmas, Funchal and Cartagena / Spain (15. January 1924 - March 18, 1924). As part of the training as a naval officer, the usual courses followed until January 5, 1926. Young then came to the second practical on-board training on the liner Alsace until September 23 of the same year and thus took part in a larger training voyage (May to June) that led into the Atlantic and the Mediterranean . On October 1, 1926, he was promoted to lieutenant at sea .

Military career

A week earlier he was already III. Officer on watch commanded the T 190 torpedo boat . From July 20, 1927 to October 13 of the same year, Junge was a watch officer on the sailing training ship Niobe, after which he was III. Cadet officer being transferred to the cruiser Berlin. The ship left Kiel on December 1, 1927 with the goal of East Asia and Australia . After traveling around the world, which lasted about 15 months, the cruiser returned to Cuxhaven on March 7, 1929 . On September 17, 1928, Junge was promoted to lieutenant at sea . His next command was a company officer in the 1st Marine Artillery Department or officer on watch (WO) in the Baltic Sea Barrier Association, until he became adjutant in the 2nd Marine Artillery Department on September 25, 1930. This was followed by a number of on-board commands: July 11, 1932 to April 3, 1933 where on the artillery training ship Bremse , April 4, 1933 to September 27, 1934 commander in the Schnellbootshalbflotille, where on the ship of the line Hesse (until November 11, 1934) and finally Watch officer on the armored ships Admiral Scheer until September 26, 1935, and Admiral Graf Spee until October 4, 1937. His promotion to lieutenant captain took place on June 1, 1934, that to corvette captain on November 1, 1937. From October 5, 1937 to 25 July 1938 Young at the naval Academy in Kiel, thereafter the High command of the Navy , the department of naval Operations to be added as a speaker.

I. Officer and commander of the battleship Tirpitz

After more than five years, an on-board command followed again. The sea ​​captain (since April 1, 1943, frigate captain : November 1, 1941) was commanded as chief officer on August 25, 1943 on the battleship Tirpitz lying in Norway . On May 1 of the following year, he took over from Captain Meyer as commandant. On September 6, 1944, he was decorated with the German Cross in gold .

Surrender and a new beginning

A few days before the Tirpitz was destroyed, on November 4, 1944, Junge was transferred to the Wehrmacht High Command as 1st Admiral Staff Officer . From January 11, 1945 until the surrender on May 8, 1945 he was the first command officer in the naval command of the Baltic Sea . After the war, Junge managed to enter civilian life. He worked his way up to the personnel manager of the KSB company in Frankenthal (Palatinate). He died of a heart attack on February 21, 1964 and was buried in his home town of Lambsheim .

reference

  • Jens Grützner: Captain Ernst Lindemann - the Bismarck Commander , Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-047-4 , page 223-224
  • Personnel file Wolf Junge, German Office (WASt) Berlin
  • Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships , Ratingen without year

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The headlight, communications of the "Tirpitz" comradeship, No. 1, Hamburg - September 1964
personal data
SURNAME Boy, wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer of the Reichsmarine and later the Kriegsmarine
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb.
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1964