Original Wartime Signature on a Wartime Photo of Hellmuth Heye. Vizeadmiral Hellmuth Heye (09.08.1895 in Beckingen † 10.11.1970 in Mittelheim) earned the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on January 18, 1941 as Kapitän zur See und Kommandant of the schwere Kreuzer “Admiral Hipper”. He was later the Generalreferenten Sonderkampfmittel im OKM and Kommandierenden Admiral der Kleinkampfverbände der Kriegsmarine. Circa A5 Size. Condition as seen.