Bernd Klug

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Bernd Klug
1966 FAdm Klug.jpg
Born(1914-12-12)12 December 1914
Wuppertal
Died15 June 1975(1975-06-15) (aged 60)
Kiel
Allegiance Nazi Germany
 West Germany
Service/branchKriegsmarine
German Navy
Years of service1933–1945, 1956–1968
RankFlottillenadmiral
Battles/warsSpanish Civil War
World War II
AwardsKnight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves

Bernd Klug (12 December 1914 – 15 June 1975) was an admiral in the West German Navy. During World War II, he served in the Kriegsmarine and was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.

Career[]

Klug joined Nazi Germany's Reichsmarine on 1 April 1933. He received his training aboard the school ship SSS Gorch Fock and the light cruiser Karlsruhe.[1] Klug sailed on Karlsruhe's third training cruise. Karlsruhe left Wilhelmshaven on 14 October 1933 returning to Kiel on 16 June 1934.[2] While stationed on Karlsruhe, he advanced in rank to Gefreiter on 1 April 1934.[3]

He was posted to the Naval Academy at Mürwik on 28 June 1934.[1] During his vacation he was promoted to Officer Cadet on 1 July 1934.[3] The main cadet course lasted until 18 April 1935 and was interrupted by two navigational training cruises, the first on the tender Nordsee (10–16 October 1934) and the tender Saar (31 January – 6 February 1935).[1]

Klug led E-boats on 28 April 1944 in an attack against Convoy T-4 consisting of LSTs during the Allied large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, dubbed Exercise Tiger. During the attack, German E-boats sank USS LST-507 and , and damaged , resulting in the deaths of 749 American servicemen.[4]

Awards[]

References[]

Citation
  1. ^ a b c Dörr 1995, p. 339.
  2. ^ Hildebrand, Röhr, & Steinmetz 1993, v. 5., p. 89.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Dörr 1995, p. 340.
  4. ^ Hoyt 1999, p. 97.
  5. ^ a b Scherzer 2007, p. 451.
Bibliography
  • Dörr, Manfred (1995). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Überwasserstreitkräfte der Kriegsmarine—Band 1: A–K [The Knight's Cross Bearers of the Surface Forces of the Navy—Volume 1: A–K] (in German). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7648-2453-2.
  • Hildebrand, Hans H.; Röhr, Albert; Steinmetz, Hans-Otto (1990). Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe. Biographien – ein Spiegel der Marinegeschichte von 1815 bis zur Gegenwart. (10 Bände) [The German Warships. Biographies - a Mirror of Naval History from 1815 to the Present. (10 Volumes)] (in German). Vol. 3. Mundus Verlag. ISBN 3-7822-0211-2.
  • Hoyt, Edwin P. (1999). The Invasion Before Normandy: The Secret Battle of Slapton Sands. Lanham, Md: Scarborough House. ISBN 978-1-4617-0631-1.
  • Lawrence, Wendy Susan (2013). Exercise Tiger: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Silent Few. Stroud: Fonthill Media. ISBN 978-1-78155-110-3.
  • Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives [The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives] (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Militaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2.

External links[]

  • "Kopf unter". Der Spiegel (in German). 1987. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
Military offices
Preceded by
none
 Commander of
15 July 1941 – 1 June 1944 		Succeeded by
Kapitänleutnant Kurt Johannsen
Preceded by Commander of
1962 – 1964 		Succeeded by
Jens Matzen
Preceded by
Kapitän zur See Karl Schneider-Pungs
 Commander of the Naval Academy Mürwik
1 October 1966 – 31 March 1968 		Succeeded by
Kapitän zur See Reinhard Ostertag
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