Doenitz, Karl

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Karl Doenitz

Name	Doenitz, Karl Gender: M
born on	16 September 1891 at 15:30 (= 3:30 PM )
Place	Grunau bei Berlin, Germany, 52n26, 12e57
Timezone	LMT m12e57 (is local mean time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA
Astrology data	23°25' 00°32 Asc. 13°31'

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Biography

German military, Chief Naval Commander during World War II. After Hitler’s death in 1945 he headed the German government that negotiated the unconditional surrender to the Allies. He had the remarkable distinction of being Fuehrer of the Third Reich for 23 days after Hitler's suicide, the acting head of the German government until the occupation of the Allies.

Commander of the U-boat fleet, Supreme Naval Commander, and finally Hitler's successor in the last days of the Third Reich. Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz has been condemned as a Nazi and praised as one of the most brilliant and honorable military leaders of the war. His "wolf-pack" tactics resulted in a handful of U-boats sinking 14.5 million tons and nearly deciding the Battle of the Atlantic.

During WW I, Doenitz served in U-boats and remained in the German Navy, although the Versailles Treaty would not allow Germany to keep any submarines. Doenitz secretly planned a German submarine fleet in the years following the Treaty of Versailles and was given command of submarine operations by Adolf Hitler in 1935. When Germany began to rearm, Doenitz was chosen to organize the new submarine service, and became Chief of U-boat Forces.

When war broke out in 1939, he was promoted to Rear Admiral, but had far fewer submarines than were required by the war plans (which did not expect a war to start before 1942). In spite of this, Doenitz' U-boats were highly successful, scoring one coup after another, while the warships of the German surface navy, like the Bismark or Graf Spee, seemed to make headlines only by being hunted down and sunk. Hitler was highly impressed by Doenitz' talent, and on 1/30/1943, appointed him Grand Admiral, succeeding Raeder as Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy while retaining his command of the U-boat arm. Then, on 5/01/1945, he succeeded Hitler as leader of Germany.

Doenitz was awarded the following decorations: On 9/18/1939 he received the Cluster of the Iron Cross, first class, for the U-boat successes in the Baltic during the Polish campaign. This award was followed on 4/21/1940 by the high award of the Knight's Cross to the Iron Cross, while on 4/07/1943 he received personally from Hitler the Oak Leaf to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, as the 223rd recipient.

After the surrender, Doenitz was tried for War Crimes at Nuremburg. He succeeded in convincing the tribunal that he had been kept ignorant of the murder of millions in the Concentration Camps and Death Camps of "the final solution," but was sentenced to ten years, 1946-1956, for "Planning Agressive War."

His memoirs appeared in 1958 and were translated from German the following year.

Died 12/24/1980, Amruhle, Germany.

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Events

• Work : Gain social status 1 May 1945 (Fuehrer of Nazi Germany for 23 days)

• Death, Cause unspecified 24 December 1980 at 12:00 noon in Amruhle, Germany (Age 89)
• Work : New Job 1935 (Command of submaring operation)

• Work : Gain social status 1939 (Promoted to Rear Admiral)

• Work : Gain social status 30 January 1943 (Appointed Grand Admiral)

• Work : Prize 18 September 1939 (Awarded the Cluster of the Iron Cross)

• Work : Prize 21 April 1940 (Awarded the Knight's Cross to the Iron Cross)

• Work : Prize 7 April 1943 (Awarded the Oak Leaf to the Knight's Cross)

• Social : Institutionalized - prison, hospital 1946 (Ten year prison sentence)

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1958 (Published his memoirs)

Source Notes

Steinbrecher quotes B.R.

Biography: by Peter Padfield, 1984.

Autobiography: "Memoirs" by Karl Donitz, R. H. Stevens, Translator; David Woodward, Translator April 1997.

Categories

• Vocation : Military : Military career (Admiral in German Navy)

• Notable : Famous : Historic figure (Surrendered Germany to Allied occupation)

• Vocation : Politics : Heads of state (Fuehrer for 23 days)

• Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 89)

• Notable : Awards : Medals (Numerous)

• Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Prison sentence (Ten year imprisonment)

• Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer (Memoirs)

• Notable : Extraordinary Talents : For Leadership (Brilliant military leader)