Early Life
The schoolteacher's son was from 1907 a professional soldier in the Imperial German Navy, and as of 1911 saw service on several submarines. In World War I, Steinbrinck was the most successful U-boat commandant; in 1916, he was decorated with the Pour le Mérite (he sank 206 ships including the HMS Ariadne). However, in 1919, after the German Empire had lost the war, no further use could be found for him in the reconstituted Reichswehr, and so he was discharged with the rank of Kapitänleutnant.
First, Steinbrinck functioned as a company director of the Organization of German Iron and Steel Industrialists, until he found a new post in 1924 at the Flick conglomerate, where he became First Associate in Friedrich Flick's private secretariat by 1925 and later rose to vice president. Steinbrinck also worked as a board member in many companies.
Read more about this topic: Otto Steinbrinck
Famous quotes containing the words early life, early and/or life:
“... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,—if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.”
—Hortense Odlum (1892–?)
“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child’s life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play—that embryonic notion of kindergarten.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)