Searching for Naval Officer

[MH184]

Iim trying to find any information on this gentleman,I've tried but to no avail.It's very difficult because my German is very poor and i keep hitting brick wall's all the time.

Can any advise or help?

Kind regards,

Marcus

[MH184]

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[Rick Research]

I think Technical Signals was a wartime branch whose members were commissioned ex-Petty Officers?

He was promoted to Kapitänleutnant (MN-- Marine Nachrichten) 1 November 1944, so still alive on that date.

He was not a member of the German naval officers' association (MOH) after the war.

[MH184]

Excellent Rick you clever man,thankyou very much.

Kind regards,

Marcus

[Glenn2438]

Kurt König

Marcus,

Kapitänleutnant (MN) Kurt König has an entry in "Die Deutsche Kriegsmarine 1939-1945" by Lohmann & Hildebrand as follows:

Born on the 2nd of November 1906 in Klostermannsfeld in Saxony and entered the Reichsmarine in 1925. He was asssigned as the Flottillenfunkmeister on the destroyer Hans Lody from Feb 39 - Nov 40 and in the same appointment on the destroyer Karl Galster from Nov 40 - Jan 41. He attended a course at the Naval Signals School at Murwik from Jan - Feb 41 as was then assigned as an assistant instructor and officers' instructor there for underwater detection and direction finding until Jan 44. Signals officer aboard the light Cruiser Leipzig from Jan 44 - Oct 44 and in November on the staff of the F.d.Z. (Destroyer Leader) as the 4. Asto (4th Admiral's Staff Officer). From December 44 - Feb 45 he was again at the Naval Signals School as an instructor and his final appointment was as a radio expert in Wehrmacht Nachrichten-Regiment West until the war's end.

Regards
Glenn

[MH184]

Glenn,

Thank you so much,thats just great!!!

Good to hear from you again.


Many Thanks,

Marcus 2489

[Glenn2438]

Nachrichtentechnische Offiziere (NT)

Hi Marcus,

as Rick pointed out this branch of service was recruited exclusively from former naval warrant officers in the rank of Oberfeldwebel in the Funk (radio operator career) or Fernschreib (teletypist) careers: Oberfunkmeister & Oberfernschreibmeister.

As your promotion document shows, the designation (NT) was used until the merging of the communication officers and communication technical officers branches on 1 Oct 1944 when the designation of the former branch (MN) was extended also to the latter. Hence Kapitänleutnant (MN) and not Kapitänleutnant (NT).

Regards
Glenn

[MH184]

Hi Glenn,

Thankyou yet again,this is great.

Know anything my German Officer or any ideas how i can research him Glenn?

Kind regards,

Marcus