Dears,
today I would like to present you a KM gala dress, consisting of:
Gala jacket, vest and trousers. All made by Offizerskleiderkasse Kiel and all labled.
The cape is named to a different officer whom I still have to research.
The gala dress is named for Faehnrich Guenther Schmidt, 1937.
Research shows that it is this offcier:
Günther Schmidt, Crew 1937, geboren 08.03.1913 in Gleiwitz
1940 Torpedoschulflottille
10.1940 - 05.1943 Z 24, 1. WO und Torpedooffizier
05.1943 - 09.1943 Kommandant T 7
09.1943 - 01.1944 Zur Verfügung Adm. Ägäis, dabei am 01.06.1943 Beförderung zum Kapitänleutnant
01.1944 Kommandant TA 19 in Vertretung
02.1944 - 06.1944 Kommandant TA 16
07.1944 - 10.1944 Kommandant TA 18
10.1944 - 12.1944 Gefangenschaft
16.12.1944 Erschossen
The events around TA 16 (sunk in Heraklion harbour after heavily damaged by rockets (air raid at sea) and later TA18 (Torpedoboot Ausland) are described in the book by Volkmar Kühn - Torpedoboote und Zerstörer im Einsatz 1939-1945
TA18 was hunted down by the British destroyers HMS Tuscan and Termagant on 19 October 1944. Commandant Schmidt was able to set the ship on shore of Volos, but he and the remaining crew was captured by "irregular" greek troops. Witnesses described that Schmidt was forced into mindeclearing actions but has not returned from the second of those "missions". Whether he was killed during this clearing by a mine or killed by the irregular troops remain unsolved, but Lohmann/Hildebrand listed him as "shot".
today I would like to present you a KM gala dress, consisting of:
Gala jacket, vest and trousers. All made by Offizerskleiderkasse Kiel and all labled.
The cape is named to a different officer whom I still have to research.
The gala dress is named for Faehnrich Guenther Schmidt, 1937.
Research shows that it is this offcier:
Günther Schmidt, Crew 1937, geboren 08.03.1913 in Gleiwitz
1940 Torpedoschulflottille
10.1940 - 05.1943 Z 24, 1. WO und Torpedooffizier
05.1943 - 09.1943 Kommandant T 7
09.1943 - 01.1944 Zur Verfügung Adm. Ägäis, dabei am 01.06.1943 Beförderung zum Kapitänleutnant
01.1944 Kommandant TA 19 in Vertretung
02.1944 - 06.1944 Kommandant TA 16
07.1944 - 10.1944 Kommandant TA 18
10.1944 - 12.1944 Gefangenschaft
16.12.1944 Erschossen
The events around TA 16 (sunk in Heraklion harbour after heavily damaged by rockets (air raid at sea) and later TA18 (Torpedoboot Ausland) are described in the book by Volkmar Kühn - Torpedoboote und Zerstörer im Einsatz 1939-1945
TA18 was hunted down by the British destroyers HMS Tuscan and Termagant on 19 October 1944. Commandant Schmidt was able to set the ship on shore of Volos, but he and the remaining crew was captured by "irregular" greek troops. Witnesses described that Schmidt was forced into mindeclearing actions but has not returned from the second of those "missions". Whether he was killed during this clearing by a mine or killed by the irregular troops remain unsolved, but Lohmann/Hildebrand listed him as "shot".
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