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- STEINBRINCK Otto, born 19 December 1888, Fregattenkapitän u. SS Brigfhr, NSDAP Nr 2638206, SS Nr 63084;
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Steinbrinck Otto?
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I did a search using Google, typing in the name as you posted it because I was intrigued about a man who was in the Navy and then the SS. I pasted the following info I found and I am sure you will find more of interest that I didn't have time to look for:
Otto Steinbrinck (1888 - 1949)
(German U-boat commander in WW I on U-6, UB-10, UB-18 and UC-65. Sank 204 ships with a total of 243,424 tons.)
Sorry my pasting of the Dienstaltersliste didn't come over too well, but you should be able to get the gist of it:
Oktober 1934 | Vor- und Zuname | Dienststellung | Partei-Nummer | SS-Nummer | Sturmführer | Obersturmführer | Sturmhauptführer | Sturmbannführer | Obersturmbannführer | Standartenführer |
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| 110 | Ribbentrop Joachim | Ehrenf. zug. Oa. Ost | 1199927 | 63083 | - | - | - | - | - | 30.5.33 |
| 111 | Steinbrinck Otto | Stab RF-SS | 2638206 | 63084 | - | - | - | - | - | 31.5.33 |
| 112 | Schwarz Franz | F. 2. Sta. | 530627 | 15776 | 1.12.32 | - | - | 20.4.33
Awarded the Pour le Merite as : KaptLt. Otto Steinbrinck of UB-18 awarded on -- 29 March 1916.
Source: History of the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Development of the Laws of War. United Nations War Crimes Commission. London: HMSO, 1948
SOME NOTEWORTHY WAR CRIMINALS
p.529
IV. LEADING INDUSTRIALISTS AND FINANCIERS
(i) Leading industrialists convicted in Case No. 5 of the “ Subsequent Proceedings,” held at Nuremberg from 18th March, 1947, to 22nd December, 1947.
Friedrich FLICK, steel magnate: 7 years imprisonment.
Otto STEINBRINCK, steel magnate: 5 years imprisonment.
Bernhard WEISS, steel magnate: 24 years imprisonment.
See also this link : http://reformed-theology.org/html/books ... ter_09.htm
A book that might be of interest : Kapitaenleutnant Otto Steinbrinck - Bodo Herzog
Die Geschichte des erfolgreichsten U-Boot-Kommandant in der Gewaessern um England
An excerpt from a web page:
Lightship crews were dismayed to learn the fate of the South Arklow Lightvessel Guillemot which was bombed on 28 March 1917. The Master, James Rossiter, had signalled to shipping that a U-boat was in the area. After sinking a number of ships the U-boat commander ordered the Lightship's crew to the boats and placed bombs on board.
John McGeean, Mate of the South Rock Lightvessel Petrel, reported to Irish Lights Office-
'At 3.00 am on morning of 2 May 1917 heard 3 shots from east of ship. At 3.30 explosion from east and after saw submarine on top of water going to another s/s. Submarine fired again s/s. Blown up. Submarine going again blown another s/s, and another. Total number sunk by submarine 5 s/s, morning of 2-5-1917. Ships boats full of people pulling from South Rock Lightship at 5.0 am and took all on board and towed the three small boats after Patrol boat and going after submarine dived and disappeared. Submarine visible from 3.30 to 5.30 am 2-5-1917.'
The vessels captured and sunk by bombs in Ballyhalbert Bay were the Saint Mungo, Derrymore, Amber, and Morion. The Earnest met the same fate six miles south-east of the Skulmartin Lightship. All this was the work of Kptlt. Otto Steinbrinck of the uc 65 who was the most successful commander of the small submarines.
Although this happened during the unrestricted campaign each of the vessel's crews were allowed to row to safety in their small boats. Steinbrinck is still remembered in local folklore, for it is said that as one small boat pulled away from a doomed vessel he shouted from his conning tower, 'If you hurry you will be in time to catch O'Brien's bus from Ballywalter for Belfast.'
The late John Bailie of Newcastle townland was the boat contractor attending the South Rock Lightship for 42 years before retiring in 1955. Part of his contract was that if the crew were short-handed he would remain on board. He described the loss of the steamer Daybreak on 24 December 1917, one mile east of the lightship-
'I remember being on the South Rock as a temporary, 2s/6d a day and feed yourself. On Christmas Eve 1917 about midday the Daybreak loaded with maize was torpedoed and 21 were lost. Her nose was cut clean off. It happened so quick her propeller was going round in the air as she sank. You talk about explosions, boilers bursting one after another.'
Otto Steinbrinck (1888 - 1949)
(German U-boat commander in WW I on U-6, UB-10, UB-18 and UC-65. Sank 204 ships with a total of 243,424 tons.)
Sorry my pasting of the Dienstaltersliste didn't come over too well, but you should be able to get the gist of it:
Oktober 1934 | Vor- und Zuname | Dienststellung | Partei-Nummer | SS-Nummer | Sturmführer | Obersturmführer | Sturmhauptführer | Sturmbannführer | Obersturmbannführer | Standartenführer |
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| 110 | Ribbentrop Joachim | Ehrenf. zug. Oa. Ost | 1199927 | 63083 | - | - | - | - | - | 30.5.33 |
| 111 | Steinbrinck Otto | Stab RF-SS | 2638206 | 63084 | - | - | - | - | - | 31.5.33 |
| 112 | Schwarz Franz | F. 2. Sta. | 530627 | 15776 | 1.12.32 | - | - | 20.4.33
Awarded the Pour le Merite as : KaptLt. Otto Steinbrinck of UB-18 awarded on -- 29 March 1916.
Source: History of the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Development of the Laws of War. United Nations War Crimes Commission. London: HMSO, 1948
SOME NOTEWORTHY WAR CRIMINALS
p.529
IV. LEADING INDUSTRIALISTS AND FINANCIERS
(i) Leading industrialists convicted in Case No. 5 of the “ Subsequent Proceedings,” held at Nuremberg from 18th March, 1947, to 22nd December, 1947.
Friedrich FLICK, steel magnate: 7 years imprisonment.
Otto STEINBRINCK, steel magnate: 5 years imprisonment.
Bernhard WEISS, steel magnate: 24 years imprisonment.
See also this link : http://reformed-theology.org/html/books ... ter_09.htm
A book that might be of interest : Kapitaenleutnant Otto Steinbrinck - Bodo Herzog
Die Geschichte des erfolgreichsten U-Boot-Kommandant in der Gewaessern um England
An excerpt from a web page:
Lightship crews were dismayed to learn the fate of the South Arklow Lightvessel Guillemot which was bombed on 28 March 1917. The Master, James Rossiter, had signalled to shipping that a U-boat was in the area. After sinking a number of ships the U-boat commander ordered the Lightship's crew to the boats and placed bombs on board.
John McGeean, Mate of the South Rock Lightvessel Petrel, reported to Irish Lights Office-
'At 3.00 am on morning of 2 May 1917 heard 3 shots from east of ship. At 3.30 explosion from east and after saw submarine on top of water going to another s/s. Submarine fired again s/s. Blown up. Submarine going again blown another s/s, and another. Total number sunk by submarine 5 s/s, morning of 2-5-1917. Ships boats full of people pulling from South Rock Lightship at 5.0 am and took all on board and towed the three small boats after Patrol boat and going after submarine dived and disappeared. Submarine visible from 3.30 to 5.30 am 2-5-1917.'
The vessels captured and sunk by bombs in Ballyhalbert Bay were the Saint Mungo, Derrymore, Amber, and Morion. The Earnest met the same fate six miles south-east of the Skulmartin Lightship. All this was the work of Kptlt. Otto Steinbrinck of the uc 65 who was the most successful commander of the small submarines.
Although this happened during the unrestricted campaign each of the vessel's crews were allowed to row to safety in their small boats. Steinbrinck is still remembered in local folklore, for it is said that as one small boat pulled away from a doomed vessel he shouted from his conning tower, 'If you hurry you will be in time to catch O'Brien's bus from Ballywalter for Belfast.'
The late John Bailie of Newcastle townland was the boat contractor attending the South Rock Lightship for 42 years before retiring in 1955. Part of his contract was that if the crew were short-handed he would remain on board. He described the loss of the steamer Daybreak on 24 December 1917, one mile east of the lightship-
'I remember being on the South Rock as a temporary, 2s/6d a day and feed yourself. On Christmas Eve 1917 about midday the Daybreak loaded with maize was torpedoed and 21 were lost. Her nose was cut clean off. It happened so quick her propeller was going round in the air as she sank. You talk about explosions, boilers bursting one after another.'
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Steinbrinck, Otto (1888-?) [SS-Brigadefűhrer] -- "right-hand man" of German industrialist Friedrich Flick 1925-1939; Reich Plenipotentiary for Coal - West (later the Occupied Western Territories) (Beauftragter Kohle-West - Bekowest) Sept 1939-Apr 1945; member of the Presidium of the Reich Iron Industry (Reichsvereinigung Eisen - RVE) 1941-1945; Plenipotentiary-General for the Steel Industry (General-Beauftragter fuer die Stahlindustrie) in northern France, Belgium and Luxembourg; Reich Military Economy Leader (Wehrwirtschaftführer); member of the "Circle of Friends of the Reichsfuehrer SS" {indicted 8 Feb 1947 by American military tribunal by an American military tribunal on charges of of being an executive in the industrial empire of Friedrich Flick, and of using slave labor in wartime production (NYT 9 Feb 1947:1:2); arraigned 15 Mar 1947 (NYT 16 Mar 1947:30:3); judges named 12 Apr 1947 (NYT 13 Apr 1947:46:4); convicted and sentenced to 5 years in prison 22 Dec 1947 (NYT 23 Dec 1947:11:1; NYT 16 Mar 1948:35:2; NYT 20 Apr 1948:12:5; LT 23 Dec 1947:3d). (Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals vol. VI, pps. 12, 1194-1223; Holo Ency 1790).}
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Thank you David for the prosecutors information on his war time activities and as amemebr of the Freundkreis of the Reichsfuhrer-SS. I did note that on my search but didn;t have the time to add any more - i think some of the guys at work will get annoyed if I spend more time online at lunch! 
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An interesting search nonetheless
Matt Gibbs
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An interesting search nonetheless
Matt Gibbs
Steinbrinck
Was this Otto Steinbrinck the man after whom they named a destroyer about 1938? I keep forgetting the first names of those destroyers as only the surnames were usually used in actual parlance, but STEINBRINCK was one of the few that survived the war and, I believe ended up in the loving care of the USSR.