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1
April 1908: Entered the Imperial German Navy as a Sea Cadet.
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1
April 1908-13 July 1908: Infantry training at the Naval School.
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14
July 1908-31 March 1909: Sea Cadet aboard the school ship Hertha.
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1
April 1910-30 June 1910: Artillery Course at the Ship Artillery School.
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1
July 1910-31 August 1910: Torpedo Course aboard the torpedo school ship
Württemberg.
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1
September 1910-30 September 1910: Infantry Course in the II. Sea Battalion.
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1
October 1910-14 November 1912: Radio Course aboard the armored cruiser
Roon, afterwards appointed Second Radio Officer of the pre-dreadnought
battleship Hannover.
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15
November 1912-3 August 1913: Company Officer in the I. Matrosen-Division.
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4
August 1913-November 1914: Adjutant and First Radio Officer of the armored
cruiser Hansa.
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November
1914: Transferred to the German Navy Airship Division.
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22
December 1914-5 March 1915: Executive- and Radio Officer of the naval
airship L 8 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Konradin Maver and then
Kapitänleutnant Helmut Beelitz. [On 5 March 1915, Beelitz attempted to
raid England from his temporary base in Belgium, but his airship was heavily
damaged by Belgian gunfire over Nieuport. Although Beelitz attempted to
make it back to his permanent base at Düsseldorf, the L 8 was destroyed
in a forced landing at Tirlemont, some 85 miles short of its goal.]
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3
May 1915-11 September 1915: Executive- and Radio Officer of the naval
airship L 6 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Joachim Breithaupt and
then Kapitänleutnant der Reserve Blew.
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12
September 1915-1 April 1916: Executive- and Radio Officer of the naval
airship L 15 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Joachim Breithaupt. [On
31 March 1916, Breithaupt took off with six other airships to attack London.
While northeast of the city, a British antiaircraft gun scored a direct
hit on the L 15 and a fighter aircraft piloted by Second Lieutenant A. de B. Brandon made
a determined attack soon afterwards. With his airship badly damaged and
rapidly losing altitude, Breithaupt jettisoned his remaining bombs, machineguns,
spare parts and radio equipment in an effort to reach Belgium. However,
the airship’s overloaded frame broke in two places causing it to plunge
into the North Sea off Knock Deep. The British destroyer Vulture
rescued Breithaupt and his 16 surviving crewmembers (one died), including
Oberleutnant zur See Otto Kühne. Although the British attempted to take
the floating wreckage of the L 15 under tow, the airship finally
broke up and sank the next day. The L 15 was the first German naval
airship shot down by the British in World War I.]
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1
April 1916-1 July 1917: Prisoner of war in England then interned in Switzerland
before repatriation to Germany.
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2
July 1917-9 November 1918: First Adjutant and Radio Officer of the German
Naval Airship Division.
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9
November 1918-20 August 1919: Leader of the Navy Airships and Commander
of the Naval Airship Division.
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20
August 1919: Separated from the Navy.
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1
February 1925-November 1932: In the Weapons Department of the Navy Command
and then Business Head of the firm Meßgeräte [Measuring Instruments] Boykow
Limited, dealing in special flying technical jobs.
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1
October 1934-30 April 1935: Special Course at Halle/Saale.
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1
May 1935: Entered the Luftwaffe with the rank of Major.
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1
May 1935-31 July 1935: Delegated with the post of Commander of Courses
at the Air Signals School at Halle/Saale.
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1
August 1935-30 November 1937: Commander of the Air Signals Training Detachment
at the Air Signals School at Haale/Saale.
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8
May 1937-30 November 1937: At the same time, delegated with the post of
Commander of the Air Signals School at Haale/Saale and Commandant of the
Haale/Saale Military Airfield.
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1
December 1937-31 March 1939: Commander of the Air Signals School at Haale/Saale
and Commandant of the Haale/Saale Military Airfield.
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1
April 1939-25 August 1939: Signals Leader of Luftflotte [Air Fleet] Command
1 and, at the same time, Commander of Air Signals Regiment 1, Berlin.
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26
August 1939-11 April 1940: Higher Signals Leader of Luftflotte Command
1.
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8
March 1940-11 April 1940: At the same time, Representative Higher Signals
Leader of the X. Fliegerkorps [Air Corps].
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12
April 1940-7 August 1940: Delegated with the post of Higher Signals Leader
of Luftflotte Command 5.
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8
August 1940-14 May 1942: Higher Signals Leader of Luftflotte Command 5
in Norway.
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1
June 1942-8 July 1943: Higher Commander of the Air Signals Schools.
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9
July 1943-10 November 1943: Representative Higher Signals Leader of Luftflotte
Command 5 in Norway.
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11
November 1943-31 December 1944: Higher Commander of the Air Signals Schools.
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1
January 1945-9 May 1945: Higher Signals Leader to the Commanding General
of the German Luftwaffe in Norway (Generalleutnant Ernst-August Roth).
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9
May 1945-1 March 1948: In Norwegian internment, from July 1945 prisoner
of war in British captivity.
- 9th January
1946 transferred Island Farm Special Camp
11 from Camp 1
- 24th January
1947 transferred to Camp 99 from Island Farm Special Camp 11
- 17 February
1947 transferred to Island Farm Special Camp 11 from Camp 99
- 3 June 1947
transferred to Island Farm Special Camp 11 from Camp 99
- 10 October
1947 to Hamburg on board the ship "El Nil"