(Photo courtesy of Gareth Collins)
Konteradmiral Günther von der Forst
Born: 17 Dec 1897 in Bad Driburg, Westphalia (Westdalen)
Died: 24 Mar 1982 in Berchtesgaden
Promotions:
Fähnrich zur See (12 Oct 1916); Leutnant zur See (17 Mar 1918); Oberleutnant zur See (01 Apr 1922); Kapitänleutnant (01 Dec 1928); Korvettenkapitän (01 Apr 1935); Fregattenkapitän (01 Oct 1938); Kapitän zur See (01 Apr 1940); Konteradmiral (01 Apr 1944)
Career:
Entered the Navy as a War-Volunteer with Aspiring Officer-Service and Attended Naval-School Mürwik (03 Jan 1916-04 Mar 1916)
On Board the Cruiser ‘Freya’ (05 Mar 1916-04 May 1916)
On Board the Liner ‘Schleswig-Holstein’ (05 May 1916-31 Oct 1916)
Training and Courses (01 Nov 1916-08 Mar 1917)
Course on the Heavy Cruiser ‘Kaiserin Augusta’ (09 Mar 1917-08 Sep 1917)
With the School-Half-Flotilla (09 Sep 1917-28 Feb 1918)
Artillery-Officer on the Torpedo-Boat ‘V 69’, 2nd Destroyer-Half-Flotilla Flaunders (02 Mar 1918-06 Nov 1918)
Placed to the Disposal of the II. Torpedo-Division (07 Nov 1918-09 Jan 1919)
Granted Leave (10 Jan 1919-31 Jul 1919)
Watch-Officer, 1st Iron Half-Flotilla, 1st North Sea Torpedo-Boat Half-Flotilla then 3rd Half-Flotilla (01 Aug 1919-27 Oct 1921)
Company-Officer, Ship’s-Cadre-Division of the North Sea (28 Oct 1921-14 Feb 1922)
Adjutant of the Ship’s-Cadre ‘Berlin’ (15 Feb 1922-01 Jul 1922)
Adjutant on the Cruiser ‘Berlin’ (02 Jul 1922-02 Oct 1923)
Naval-Signals-Officer Wilhelmshaven (03 Oct 1923-30 Sep 1925)
Watch and Artillery Officer, II. Torpedo-Boat-Flotilla (01 Oct 1925-25 Sep 1927)
Advisor in the Training-Department of the Naval-Command (26 Sep 1927-29 Sep 1929)
Commandant of the Torpedo-Boat ‘T 153’ (30 Sep 1929-05 Feb 1930)
Commandant of the Torpedo-Boat ‘T 156’ (06 Feb 1930-25 Sep 1931)
Flag-Lieutenant, I. Torpedo-Boat-Flotilla, at the same time Commandant of the Torpedo-Boat ‘T 196’ (26 Sep 1931-24 Sep 1933)
Flag-Lieutenant, Staff of the Leader of Torpedo-Boats (25 Sep 1933-01 Oct 1933)
Placed to the Disposal of the Inspection of Training Affairs of the Navy, Subsidiary-Leadership-Training (02 Oct 1933-24 Mar 1935)
In the Naval-Command, on 11/01/1936 OKM (25 Mar 1935-21 Oct 1937)
First Officer on the Aviso ‘Grille’ (22 Oct 1937-06 May 1938)
Commandant of the Aviso ‘Grille’ (07 May 1938-07 Mar 1940)
Naval-Liaison-Officer to Army-High-Command 18 (08 Mar 1940-05 May 1940)
Commandant of the Aviso ‘Grille’ (06 May 1940-09 Jun 1940)
Chief Of Staff of the Admiral South Norway (20 Jun 1940-18 Jul 1940)
Commandant of Sea-Defences Stavanger (19 Jul 1940-31 May 1941)
Sea-Commandant ‘T’ (Designate for Murmansk) (01 Jun 1941-10 Dec 1941)
Senior-Quartermaster, Staff of the Commanding Admiral Norway (11 Dec 1941-06 Nov 1942)
Placed to the Disposal of the Commanding Admiral of the Naval-Station of the Baltic Sea then the Admiral Aegean (07 Nov 1942-31 Jan 1943)
Chief Of Staff of the Commanding Admiral Aegean (01 Feb 1943-03 Nov 1943)
Placed to the Disposal of the Commander-in-Chief of Naval-High-Command Baltic Sea (04 Nov 1943-01 May 1944)
Chief Of Staff of the Naval-High-Command Baltic Sea (02 May 1944-23 Jul 1945)
In Captivity (23 Jul 1945-02 Dec 1946)
Released (02 Dec 1946)

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