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On 2 October 1936 he was appointed watch officer on the Aviso Grille, Adolf Hitler's state yacht, and on 30 March 1938 transferred to the battleship Gneisenau. In 1937 he married Karl Dönitz's daughter, Ursula. The marriage produced two sons, Peter and Klaus, and a daughter, Ute. Hessler took command of torpedo-boat Falke on 27 March 1938.
Karl Dönitz's sons both died in World War II: Lieutenant Peter Dönitz on May 19, 1943, as a watch officer on the U-954, Oberleutnant Klaus Dönitz on May 13, 1944, on the E-boat S-141. On 27 May 1916, Dönitz married a nurse named Ingeborg Weber (1893–1962), the daughter of German general Erich Weber (1860–1933). They had three children ...
The Flensburg Government (German: Flensburger Regierung), also known as the Flensburg Cabinet (Flensburger Kabinett), the Dönitz Government (Regierung Dönitz), or the Schwerin von Krosigk Cabinet (Kabinett Schwerin von Krosigk), was the rump government of Nazi Germany during a period of three weeks around the end of World War II in Europe.
Eva Braun (1912–1945), Hitler's mistress and finally his wife; Wilhelm Canaris (1887–1945), admiral and chief of the Abwehr; Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), Admiral of the Fleet, briefly Hitler's successor as President; Anton Drexler (1884–1942), founder of German Workers' Party, which became the NSDAP
Finally, five U-boats were sunk attacking convoy SC 130, with Admiral Karl Dönitz's son Peter among those lost aboard U-954, while no convoy ships were lost. [ 4 ] Total Allied losses in May were 58 ships of 299,000 long tons (304,000 t), of which 34 (134,000 long tons (136,000 t)) were lost in the Atlantic.
Theo Downes-Le Guin, son of the late author Ursula K. Le Guin, remembers well the second-floor room where his mother worked on some of her most famous novels. Downes-Le Guin, who also serves as ...
The Goebbels cabinet was named by Adolf Hitler in his political testament of 30 April 1945. [1] [2] To replace himself, Hitler named Admiral Karl Dönitz as Reichspräsident and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels as Reichskanzler.
Image Name Relation to president; Elly Heuss: wife of President Theodor Heuss: Wilhelmine Lübke: wife of President Heinrich Lübke: Hilda Heinemann wife of President Gustav Heinemann