(Photo courtesy of Gareth Collins)
Vizeadmiral (Ing.) Alfred Schirmer
Born: 08 Sep 1892 in Mainz
Died: 31 Oct 1975 in Bremerhaven
Promotions:
Marineingenieuroberanwärter (01 Apr 1910); Marineingenieurapplikant (01 Oct 1910); Marineingenieuroberapplikant (01 Apr 1912); Marineingenieuraspirant (25 Sep 1913); Marineingenieuroberaspirant (01 Oct 1915); Marineingenieur (13 Jul 1916); Marineoberingenieur (28 Apr 1918); Oberleutnant (Ing.) (13 Aug 1921); Kapitänleutnant (Ing.) (01 Apr 1944); Korvettenkapitän (Ing.) (01 Apr 1929); Fregattenkapitän (Ing.) (01 Aug 1933); Kapitän zur See (Ing.) (01 Apr 1935); Konteradmiral (Ing.) (01 Nov 1939); Vizeadmiral (Ing.) (01 Apr 1942)
Career:
Entered the Navy as a Marineingenieuranwärter and Attended Basic-Training (01 Oct 1909-02 Jan 1910)
On Board the Liner ‘Schlesien’ (03 Jan 1910-30 Sep 1910)
On Board the Liner ‘Hannover’ (01 Oct 1910-30 Sep 1912)
Engineer and Deck Officer School Wilhelmshaven (01 Oct 1912-30 Sep 1913)
On Board the Liner ‘Prinzregent Luitpold’ (01 Oct 1913-18 Dec 1914)
Submarine-Training at the Submarine-School (25 Dec 1914-12 Mar 1915)
With the Submarine-Acceptance-Commission (13 Mar 1915-24 Mar 1915)
On Board the Special-Ship ‘Vulcan’ of the Submarine-School (25 Mar 1915-06 May 1915)
Chief Engineer on ‘UB 1’ of the Submarine-Flotilla Mediterranean (20 May 1915-09 Dec 1915)
Chief Engineer on ‘UC 7’ and ‘UB 19’ of the Submarine-Flotilla Flaunders (06 Jan 1916-07 Aug 1916)
Chief Engineer on ‘U 22’ of the Submarine-Flotilla Kurland/III. Submarine-Flotilla (16 Oct 1916-23 Apr 1918)
Construction-Indoctrination ‘U 121’, Placed to Disposal of the Inspection of Submarine-Affairs, Courses and Land-Command (24 Apr 1918-11 Sep 1919)
Pupil at Naval-School ‘B’ (12 Sep 1919-30 Nov 1919)
Command unknown (01 Dec 1919-28 Oct 1920)
Ordinance-Officer in the II. Battalion of the Ships-Cadre-Division of the North Sea (29 Oct 1920-28 Feb 1921)
Company-Leader in the II. Battalion of the Ships-Cadre-Division of the North Sea (01 Mar 1921-28 Feb 1922)
Watch-Engineer on the Liner ‘Braunschweig’ (01 Mar 1922-01 Oct 1923)
In the Naval-Defence-Department, Naval Command (02 Oct 1923-24 Jan 1925)
Chief Engineer on the Cruiser ‘Amazone’ (25 Jan 1925-28 Sep 1927)
Personnel-Advisor in the Staff of the Naval-Station of the North Sea (29 Sep 1927-02 Apr 1928)
Department-Head in the Department for Ship-Machine-Operations, Naval Command (03 Apr 1928-31 Jan 1930)
Formation-Engineer in the Staff of the Commander of the Reconnaissance Force (01 Feb 1930-30 Sep 1931)
Staff-Officer with the Staff of the Naval-School Kiel (03 Oct 1931-29 Sep 1934)
Inspection-Engineer with the Inspection of Training-Affairs of the Navy (01 Oct 1934-09 Sep 1935)
Station-Engineer of the Naval-Station of the Baltic Sea (10 Sep 1935-02 Oct 1936)
Commander of the Naval-School Wesermünde (07 Oct 1936-24 Nov 1939)
2nd Admiral of the North-Sea-Station (28 Nov 1939-02 Apr 1943)
Placed to the Disposal of the Naval-Station of the North Sea (03 Apr 1943-19 May 1943)
Retired (30 Jun 1943)
Placed to the Disposal of the Kriegsmarine and Senior-Shipyard-Director then Arsenal-Commandant of the Kriegsmarine-Shipyard then Kriegsmarine-Arsenal Brest (20 May 1943-20 Sep 1944)
In Captivity (20 Sep 1944-10 Mar 1947)
Released (10 Mar 1947)

Decorations & Awards:
Deutsches Kreuz in Gold (15 Sep 1944)


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