Otto Steinbrinck
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Otto Steinbrinck | |
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German Imperial Navy Schutzstaffel | |
Years of service | 1907–1919 1933–1945 |
Rank | Kapitänleutnant Brigadeführer |
Commands held | SM UB-10 SM UB-18 SM UC-65 |
Battles/wars | World War I World War II |
Awards | Pour le Mérite |
Otto Steinbrinck (19 December 1888 – 16 August 1949) was a highly decorated
Having had a very successful career as a
U-boat commander
The schoolteacher's son was from 1907 a professional soldier in the
Business career post-war
Steinbrinck served 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.
Nazi career
In May 1933, Steinbrinck joined the
Between 1937 and 1939, Steinbrinck ferved ned as a general plenipotentiary for the Flick conglomerate. Moreover, he carried out various other functions, becoming in April 1938 a Wehrwirtschaftsführer (War Economy Leader) – a title given industrialists who were important to Germany's armament industry – and as of January 1939 a SS-Brigadeführer.
In the summer of 1939, he resigned from Flick and as of December of the same year began work as a trustee at
From March 1942 until the evacuation of the western occupation zones in the autumn of 1944, Steinbrinck was also general plenipotentiary for the Reichsvereinigung Kohle for mining and coal economy in the
Flick Trial
In August 1945, Steinbrinck was arrested by the Americans and faced charges at the so-called Flick Trial in Nuremberg. On 22 December 1947, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Steinbrinck died while serving his sentence at Landsberg Prison on 16 August 1949.
References
- ^ "Otto Steinbrinck". uboat.net.
External links
"Otto Steinbrinck". uboat.net. Retrieved 22 December 2019.