(Photo courtesy of Gareth Collins)
Konteradmiral (Ing.) Johannes Steenbock
Born: 08 Dec 1894 in Burg auf Fehmarn
Born: 19 Sep 1974 in Essen
Promotions:
Marineingenieuroberanwärter (01 Apr 1914); Marineingenieurapplikant (01 Oct 1914); Marineingenieuroberapplikant (01 Apr 1916); Marineingenieuraspirant (28 Sep 1917); Charakter als Leutnant (Ing.) (02 Feb 1920); Kapitänleutnant M.A. (E) (01 Jul 1935); Korvettenkapitän M.A. (E) (01 Apr 1936); Korvettenkapitän (Ing.E) (16 Jun 1936); Fregattenkapitän (Ing.E) (01 Apr 1940); Fregattenkapitän (Ing.) (20 Apr 1941); Kapitän zur See (Ing.) (01 Jul 1942); Kontewradmiral (Ing.) (01 Aug 1944)
Career:
Entered the Navy as a Marineingenieuranwärter with the II. Shipyard-Division (01 Oct 1913-02 Jan 1914)
On Board the Liner ‘Oldenburg’ (03 Jan 1914-30 Sep 1916)
Engineer and Deck Officer School (01 Oct 1916-25 Sep 1917)
Submarine-Training at the Submarine-School, Placed to the Disposal of the Inspection of Submarine-Affairs and Granted Leave (30 Sep 1917-31 Mar 1919)
Retired (31 Mar 1919)
Reactivated as a Supplemental-Officer (Active-Officer from 20 Apr 1941) and Adjutant with the Military-Economics-Inspection I Königsberg (01 Apr 1935-29 Feb 1935)
Mobilisation-Agent with Military-Economics-Inspection I Königsberg (01 Mar 1936-30 Apr 1937)
Director of the Central-Department and of the Navy Department, Military-Economics-Inspection I Königsberg (01 May 1937-14 Jun 1938)
Director of the Military-Economics-Area Oberhausen of Military-Economics-Inspection VI (15 Jun 1938-29 Sep 1938)
Commander of Armaments-Command Essen (30 Sep 1938-31 Jan 1944)
At the same time, Representative for Mining-Industry, Housing an Energy Economics with Armaments-Inspection Donez (15 Dec 1942-31 Jan 1943)
With Armaments-Inspection XI, Hannover for Briefing (01 Feb 1944-28 Feb 1944)
Armaments-Inspector XI, Hannover (01 Mar 1944-18 Apr 1945)
In Captivity (18 Apr 1945-28 May 1947)
Released (28 May 1947)

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