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Karl Dönitz

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Karl Dönitz

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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 (1891–1980) was a German politician, military officer, and soldier who served as president of Germany. Born in Grünau, he was a member of the Nazi Party and held the rank of Großadmiral in the Imperial German Navy, German Navy, and Kriegsmarine. He commanded the 1st U-boat Flotilla and the Kriegsmarine. Dönitz participated in World War I and World War II, including naval warfare in the Mediterranean and the Battle of the Atlantic. He was a participant in the International Military Tribunal.

Dönitz was educated at the Naval Academy at Mürwik and was a Protestant Lutheran. He received several awards, including the Golden Party Badge, Order of Michael the Brave, Clasp to the Iron Cross, and Wehrmacht Long Service Award. He had three children and was known by the nicknames "Der Löwe" and "The lion." His relatives included Günter Hessler and Erich Weber.

Dönitz was an author with works such as *Deutsche Strategie zur See im Zweiten Weltkrieg* and *Mein soldatisches Leben*. He died of a myocardial infarction in Aumühle.

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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

  1. 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 29,153x

  2. Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma

    · 2005 · cited 18,740x

  3. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,797x

  4. An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design

    · 2012 · cited 11,732x

  5. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

    · 2018 · cited 9,664x

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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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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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