Kriegsmarine Korvettenkapitaen THORADE

[torstenbel]

I have got this very nice jacket, which is named THORADE inside. An unusual name. Does anyone have any info on this KM officer?

Cheers, Torsten.

[torstenbel]

He was an Artillery Officer. Pics of the two shoulder baords --->

[Gerdan]

There was a famous oceanographer named Thorade

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Thorade

Gerdan

[Gerdan]

In the files of the Hamburg archive I found the following entry dealing with Thorade and the navy:

"61
Ü b e r t r i t t d e s S t u d i e n r a t s Dr. Hermann Thorade zur Deutschen
Seewarte 1938 - 1940 "

It could be him or a relative of him.

Gerdan

[Simon O.]

The rank shown here is that of a Fregattenkapitän

I find no Thorade in the '44 rangliste, Hildebrand's Stellenbesetzung of the marine or Lohmann and Hildebrand's Kriegsmarine 1933-45.

[torstenbel]

Simon, you are correct of course ... this would have been Korvettenkapitaen in the Volksmarine, but Fregattenkapitaen in the Kriegsmarine ... confused to do, without double checking first ... thank you for the correction. Cheers, Torsten.

[torstenbel]

There was a famous oceanographer named Thorade

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Thorade

Gerdan

Hi Gerdan, I did find several books by Hermann Thorade, but he was too old at the time of the war and he was a Professor and scientest and not a Kriegsmarine officer ... I am thinking that my Thorade may have been his son or relative ... Cheers, Torsten.