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Karl Dönitz

Also known as Großadmiral Dönitz, Grand Admiral Donitz, Karl Doenitz

German admiral and former president of Nazi Germany in 1945 (born 1891-1980)

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Karl Dönitz was a German admiral who commanded Nazi Germany's submarine fleet during World War II and briefly served as the country's president in the final months of the war in 1945. He is historically significant as a key military figure in the Nazi regime and represents the final leadership transition as Germany faced defeat in the war.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 16 September 1891
Died: 24 December 1980
Works: 8

Top works

Deutsche Strategie zur See im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Mein soldatisches Leben
Mein wechselvolles Leben
Zehn Jahre und zwanzig Tage
Nemet︠s︡kie podbodnye lodki vo vtoroi miroboi boĭne

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Film & TV

Acting · Grünau, Germany

Known for

Filmmakers for the Prosecution — Self - Kriegsmarine Admiral (archive footage)2023
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым — Self (archive footage)2016
The Man Who Cracked the Nazi Code: The Story of Alan Turing — Self - Grand Admiral (archive footage)2014
Hitler: A Career — Self (archive footage)1977
The Memory of Justice — Self (archive footage)1976
So war der deutsche Landser — Self (archive footage)1955
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today — Self1948
Nuremberg Trials — Self1946

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 24
Total plays: 50

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 27,997x
Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,334x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design
· 2012 · cited 11,664x
LIII. <i>On lines and planes of closest fit to systems of points in space</i>
· 1901 · cited 9,356x

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Quotes

“No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, and handing over food and water. Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews. Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities.”
“Our losses...have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.”
“The enemy holds every trump card, covering all areas with long-range air patrols and using location methods against which we still have no warning...The enemy knows all our secrets and we know none of his.”
“The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.”
“I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.”
“The trial can only end in a mistake because it is founded on one. How can a foreign court try a sovereign government of another country? Could we have tried your President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Secretary Henry Morgenthau, or Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden, if we had won the war? We could not have done so and would not have. And trying that went on would have to be done by the nation itself and the courts set up there.”

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Wikidata facts

Image: Karl Dönitz.jpg
Number of children: 3

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Commons category: Karl Dönitz
date of birth: 1891-09-16
Commons gallery: Karl Dönitz
nickname: The lion
date of death: 1980-12-24
name in native language: Karl Dönitz
end of work period: 1945-00-00
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Article

Karl Dönitz ( German: [ˈdøːnɪts] ; 16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980) was a German naval officer and politician who, following the suicide of Adolf Hitler during the Second World War in April 1945, succeeded him as head of state of Germany during the Nazi era. He held the position until the dissolution of the Flensburg Government following Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allies weeks later. As Supreme Commander of the Navy beginning in 1943, he played a major role in the naval history of the war.

He began his career in the Imperial German Navy before the First World War. In 1918 he was commanding UB-68, and was captured as a prisoner of war by British forces. As commander of UB-68, he attacked a convoy in the Mediterranean while on patrol near Malta. Sinking one ship before the rest of the convoy outran his U-boat, Dönitz began to formulate the concept of U-boats operating in attack groups Rudeltaktik (German for "pack tactic", commonly called a "wolfpack") for greater efficiency, rather than operating independently.