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.
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“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
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