On this page, you can get a preliminary view of the proposed outlines for this book, Hubert Behme Herbert Engmann Klaus Hindermann Herbert Jahn Michael Kolbinger Wilhelm Leonhard   Maschinenmaat Hubert Aloysius Behme (3.10.1914 - 27.5.1941) from Lendringsen Siegfried Behme reports about his uncle Hubert: I was born on 1 October 1935, two days before the twenty first birthday of my uncle. I met him personally when I was about four years old, when he came home on leave and visited us. Every time he came home on leave, he always came to visit my parents. I saw him three or four times and always in uniform. My parents had a very close relationship with my uncle and my uncle's fiancée stayed in touch with my parents for many years after his death. My Uncle Hubert was born on 3 October 1914 in Lendringsen at Berkenhofkamp 40, and he grew up there. He was the eights of ten children and was the fourth to die. Hubert attended the elementary school in Lendringsen from April 1921 to March 1929, and subsequently began an apprenticeship as a manual molder in the ironworks Rödinghausen in Lendringsen. He completed it with the tradesman's test on 31 March 1932. After a three year period of training he remained at the ironworks until he was inducted into the navy. He was a very good gymnast and he was in charge of the new bloods. My uncle volunteered to join the navy. I suspect that he had hoped for a brighter future. On 1 January 1937 he began his naval tour of duty as a recrut at the 3rd Ship's Cadre Battalion in Stralsund. Due to his occupational experience he was picked for a mechanical branch career. He served aboard the Cruiser Köningsberg, his first ship assignment, for two years and he participated in an overseas cruise to Norway during this time. After just one year as stoker to chief stoker, after another year from chief stoker to machinery able seaman first class. On 4 April 1939 my uncle was assigned to the 1st Naval Noncommissioned Officers (NCO) Training Battalion in Kiel-Friedrichsort as an NCO candidate in the NCO candidate course. After six months of general education for supervisory personnel, he continued in the course specific for machinery mates at the Naval School in Kiel, 2 October 1939 to 14 February 1940. Subsequently, my uncle was assigned on 15 February to the battleship Bismarck for training in construction, where he participated in the commissioning as well as the first and second phase of training in the Baltic Sea. Shortly before the conclusion of the artillery exercises, on 1 April 1941, he was transferred for diving training to the diver training boat Taucher [Diver]. My uncle's training ended on 16 May, and as he arrived in Gotenhafen the Bismarck had already departed and he was taken to her in a Schnellboot [E Boat]. During that time my uncle had his last leave, and I still remember that. I was five and a half years old then. He intended to get married on his next leave. However, unfortunately that never was allowed to happen. additional material: obituary Source: Siegfried Behme (nephew)/ Köln