Vizeadmiral (Ing.) Walter Fröhlich Born: 05 Aug 1893 in Berlin Died: 12 Dec 1969 in Baden-Baden Promotions:
Marineingenieuroberanwärter (01 Apr 1904); Marineingenieurapplikant (01 Oct 1913); Marineingenieuroberapplikant (01 Apr 1915); Marineingenieuraspirant (26 Sep 1916); Marineingenieuroberaspirant (01 Jul 1918); Leutnant (Ing.) (16 Dec 1919); Oberleutnant (Ing.) (08 Jul 1921); Kapitänleutnant (Ing.) (01 Jan 1925); Korvettenkapitän (Ing.) (01 Jun 1932); Fregattenkapitän (Ing.) (01 Oct 1936); Kapitän zur See (Ing.) (01 Apr 1938); Konteradmiral (Ing.) (01 Apr 1942); Vizeadmiral (Ing.) (01 Apr 1943) Career:
Entered the Navy as a Marineingenieuranwärter and Attended Training on Land and on Ships of the Fleet (01 Oct 1912-01 Oct 1915)
Engineer and Deck Officer School (02 Oct 1915-26 Sep 1916)
On Board the Small Cruiser ‘Straßburg’ (27 Sep 1916-00 Aug 1917)
Submarine-Training and Placed to the Disposal of the Inspection of Submarine Affairs (00 Aug 1917-01 Jun 1918)
Chief Engineer on the Submarine ‘UB 94’ (01 Jun 1918-22 Nov 1918)
Placed to the Disposal of the Inspection of Submarine Affairs (23 Nov 1918-00 Jan 1919)
Transferred into the 1st Naval-Brigade (von Roden) (00 Jan 1919-00 Jun 1919)
Transferred into the III. Naval-Brigade (00 Jun 1919-30 Sep 1919)
Pupil at the Naval-School Kiel-Wik (01 Oct 1919-31 Dec 1920)
Construction-Indoctrination on ‘Braunschweig’ (01 Jan 1921-01 Feb 1921)
Adjutant of the Naval-School Kiel-Wik (02 Feb 1921-08 Sep 1922)
Watch-Engineer on the Cruiser ‘Medusa’ (09 Sep 1922-30 Sep 1923)
Detached to the Technical College Berlin (01 Oct 1923-31 May 1927)
Watch-Engineer on the Liners ‘Schlesien’ and ‘Schleswig-Holstein’ (01 Jun 1927-21 Sep 1928)
Training-Officer at the Naval-School Kiel-Wik (22 Sep 1928-28 Sep 1932)
Chief Engineer on the Liner ‘Schlesien’ (29 Sep 1932-26 Sep 1934)
Advisor in the Military Department for Ship-Machine-Operations, Naval Command, from 11/01/1936 OKM (27 Sep 1934-22 Sep 1936)
Engineering-Officer with the Staff of the Commander of Armoured Ships (25 Sep 1936-07 Nov 1938)
Chief Of Staff of the Ship-Machine-Inspection (08 Nov 1938-10 Dec 1939)
Fleet-Engineer, Fleet-Command (11 Dec 1939-07 Jan 1941)
Chief Of Staff of the Test-Command for Warship New Construction (08 Jan 1941-28 Mar 1943)
Ship-Machine-Inspector (29 Mar 1943-14 Jul 1945)
In Captivity (14 Jul 1945-28 Dec 1946)
Released (28 Dec 1946)
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