Carl-Heinz Birnbacher

Carl-Heinz Birnbacher
Born	(1910-05-26)26 May 1910
Died	5 December 1991(1991-12-05) (aged 81)
Allegiance	Weimar Republic Nazi Germany West Germany
Service/branch	Reichsmarine Kriegsmarine German Navy
Rank	Korvettenkapitän (Wehrmacht) Konteradmiral (Bundeswehr)
Unit	destroyer Z-23
Commands held	destroyer Z-25 destroyer Z-24
Battles/wars	World War II
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Carl-Heinz Birnbacher (26 May 1910 in Villach – 5 December 1991) was a German officer in the Kriegsmarine during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. After World War II he served in the Bundesmarine attaining the rank of Konteradmiral.

Awards

Sudetenland Medal (20 September 1940)^[1]
Wehrmacht Long Service Award 4th Class (20 December 1939)^[1]
Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (9 April 1940) & 1st Class (20 April 1940)^[1]
Wound Badge in Black (15 May 1940)^[1]
Fast Attack Craft War Badge (16 December 1940)^[1]
German Cross in Gold on 10 November 1942 as Kapitänleutnant in the 1. Schnellbootsflottille^[2]
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 17 June 1940 as Kapitänleutnant and chief of the 1. Schnellbootsflottille^[3]
Mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht on 9 March 1941
Finnish Order of the Cross of Liberty 3rd Class (4 November 1941)^[1]
Destroyer War Badge (27 April 1943)^[1]
Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz (September 1970)^[1]

Dörr, Manfred (1995). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Überwasserstreitkräfte der Kriegsmarine—Band 1: A–K [The Knight's Cross Bearers of the Surface Forces of the Navy—Volume 1: A–K] (in German). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7648-2453-2.
Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) [1986]. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile [The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.
Patzwall, Klaus D.; Scherzer, Veit (2001). Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 – 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II [The German Cross 1941 – 1945 History and Recipients Volume 2] (in German). Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall. ISBN 978-3-931533-45-8.
Die Wehrmachtberichte 1939–1945 Band 1, 1. September 1939 bis 31. Dezember 1941 (in German). München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. 1985. ISBN 3-423-05944-3.

Military offices
Preceded by Kapitänleutnant Kurt Sturm	Commander of 1. Schnellbootflottille 26 November 1939 – 2 September 1942	Succeeded by Korvettenkapitän Georg Christiansen
Preceded by Korvettenkapitän Günter Schlichting	Commander of the Marinestützpunktkommando Cuxhaven October 1956 – April 1957	Succeeded by Fregattenkapitän Harald Jeppener-Haltenhoff
Preceded by Fregattenkapitän Trummer	*Commander of German destroyer Z-1 (formerly USS Anthony)* April 1959 – October 1960	Succeeded by Fregattenkapitän Werner Winter
Preceded by Friedrich Kemnade	Commander of Kommando der Schnellboote 1960 – 1962	Succeeded by Bernd Klug

Battleships

Bismarck	Ernst Lindemann Adalbert Schneider

Scharnhorst	Kurt-Caesar Hoffmann

Cruisers

Admiral Hipper	Hellmuth Heye Wilhelm Meisel

Admiral Scheer	Theodor Krancke¹ (Oak Leaves)

Prinz Eugen	Hansjürgen Reinicke

¹ Oak Leaves with Navy Group Command West. ² Knight's Cross on Widder (HSK-3), Oak Leaves on Michel (HSK-9).

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