all Rights Reserved ©
March 2022 Auction Day 1
Lot 423:
Book "U31 das Schiff aus dem Fenseits" ("U31 the ship from the far side")
Author: Clemens Laar
Mit Zeichnungen von (With drawings by) :
Theo Matejko
Publisher: Verlag, Die Wehrmacht, G.m.b.H., Berlin
Hard linen cover, 187 pages, fold-out drawings, advertisements.
Dimensions: 15,5×23 cm.
Theo Matejko (born June 18, 1893 in Vienna, died September 9, 1946 in Vorderthiersee, Kufstein) – Austrian illustrator and draftsman.
Biography
Theo Matejka (he changed his name to Matejko around 1907) came from the Czech Republic, in World War I he fought as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army. He started drawing during the war, and later became an illustrator of German magazines. With time, he moved to Berlin. After marrying actress Erika Fiedler in 1921, he became the author of posters for films.
In 1933 he joined the Nazis and created propaganda materials. He was, inter alia, author of a Polish-language poster depicting a wounded Polish soldier against the background of ruins, next to which stood an inverted British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, with the signature of England! Your work! and many, many others.
At the end of World War II, he and his wife escaped from Berlin to Tirol, where he soon died.
U-31 – German type VII A submarine from World War II. The ship entered service in 1936, and on September 16, 1939, the SS freighter
Aviemore sank in a convoy, which was the first ship in a convoy sunk by German U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic.
History
During the Spanish Civil War, he made two patrols in Spanish territorial waters, and during World War II – seven combat patrols. He spent 124 days at sea.
He sank 11 vessels with a total tonnage of 27 751 GRT and two auxiliary minesweepers – armed trawlers HMS "Glen Albyn" and HMS "Promotive" sank on the mines he had set up. On December 4, 1939, the British battleship HMS "Nelson" (33,950 tons) entered the mine placed by the U-31 and was damaged (the renovation lasted until August 1940).
Sunk during a test voyage on March 11, 1940 in Jade Bay by the British Bristol Blenheim Mk IV of the 82nd Squadron RAF [1]. The entire 48-person crew and 10 civilian specialists were killed then. Raised on March 24, 1940, put back into service on July 30, 1940 after renovation. Finally sunk on 2 November northwest of Ireland by destroyer HMS Antelope. 2 crew members died; the remaining 44 – including the commander, were captured.
VERY IMPORTANT!!!
Shipping from our office in Europe
Share this lot:
all Rights Reserved ©