Military Career
- 1915 — joins the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) as an ensign
- After World War I — serves on various cruisers
- Mid-1930s to 1939 — commander of the German Navy's sail training ship Albert Leo Schlageter
- September 1939 — assigned to the Hilfskreuzer Atlantis
- mid-December 1939 — the Atlantis is formally commissioned
- 31 March 1940 — the Atlantis sets out to sea
- 22 November 1941 — the Atlantis is sunk by HMS Devonshire
- After World War II — discharged
- 1 June 1957 — enters the post-World War II West German Bundesmarine with the rank of Konteradmiral
- 1 June 1957 – 29 September 1957 — delegated with the Command of Military Area Command I
- 30 September 1957 – 31 March 1962 — Commander of Military Area Command I.
- 15 April 1958 – 31 March 1962 — at the same time, NATO Commander of Land Forces in Schleswig-Holstein (COMLAND-SCHLESWIG)
- 31 March 1962 — retires from the German Bundesmarine as a Konteradmiral
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