klaus dönitz ursula dönitz

The marriage produced two sons, Peter and Klaus, and a daughter, Ute. He was the older of two sons of Admiral Karl Dönitz.When his younger brother Peter was killed in the sinking of U-954 on 19 May 1943, Klaus was allowed to withdraw from active service to begin training as a naval doctor.

The U-boats had proven unable to elude convoy escorts and attack convoys with success. At the end of May it had risen to 41.Defeat in the mid-Atlantic left Dönitz in a dilemma. The transit routes through the Bay of Biscay were heavily patrolled by aircraft. Starting his career in the Imperial German Navy, Dönitz went on to play an instrumental role in the naval history of the Second World War.

Admirals Raeder and Dönitz and the German Naval Staff had always wished and intended to introduce unrestricted warfare as rapidly as Hitler could be persuaded to accept the possible consequences.Dönitz and Raeder accepted the death of the Z Plan upon the outbreak of war.

In 1937 Karl Dönitz’s daughter Ursula married the U-boat commander and Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross recipient Günther Hessler. Verify and try again.The email does not appear to be a valid email address.

119 were destroyed by submarines, 83 (508,707 tons) in the Atlantic.

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Dezember 1980 in Aumühle) war ein deutscher Marineoffizier (ab Januar 1943 Großadmiral), NSDAP-Mitglied,[1] Gefolgsmann Adolf Hitlers und nach dessen Willen unter dem Titel Reichspräsident für wenige Tage letztes Staatsoberhaupt des NS-Staates Deutsches Reich.

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Günther Hessler died age 58, on 04-04-1968, in Bochum-Laer. His preference for the submarine fleet was in the production of large numbers of small craft.

He announced to his officers, "we know our enemy.

In April 1953, he told Speer that if it was the choice of the Americans and not the Jews, he would have been released.Following the war, Dönitz was held as a prisoner of war by the Allies.

His father was the famous U-Boat leader, head the Kreigsmarine and successor to Adolf Hitler who surrendered Germany to end the war in Europe.Klaus Dönitz was the son of Karl Dönitz and Ingeborg Weber. Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option.Share this memorial using social media sites or email.Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print.Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager.Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you.You may not upload any more photos to this memorialThis photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photosThis photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorialThis photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photosThis photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 20 photos to this memorialAlso an additional 2 volunteers within fifty miles.You have chosen this person to be their own family member.Enter a valid email address and a feedback message.We were unable to submit your feedback at this time. A system error has occurred. At the end of the summer, practically all supply U-boats had been destroyed.That month, 21 boats fought a battle with two formations; The hunter-killer and convoy escorts brought the wolfpack era to an end at the close of 1943.Dönitz's plan for 1944 was simply to survive and await the XXI and Dönitz admired Hitler and was vocal about the qualities he perceived in Hitler's leadership.

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