Benno von Millenkovich

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Benno Heinrich Stephan von Millenkovich (born December 16, 1869 in Gonobitz, Lower Styria, today Slovenske Konjice , Slovenia , † August 27, 1946 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Rear Admiral .

Benno von Millenkovich

Life

Benno von Millenkovich was the son of the writer Stephan von Millenkovich and brother of Max von Millenkovich . In 1885 he graduated from the naval academy of the Austrian kuk Kriegsmarine in Fiume (Rijeka). In 1889 Millenkovich was retired from this with good success and entered the Imperial and Royal Navy. In 1892 he graduated from the officers and torpedo school of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

On September 21, 1889, the SM Corvette Fasana left Pola on a mission trip with the midshipmen of the 1889 decommissioned class, circumnavigating the world via West, and returned on December 20, 1890. The ship's commander was frigate captain Rudolf Berghofer, and GDO lieutenant of the line Victor Ritter Bless von Sambuchi. More famous names among the cadets: Millenkovich , Korwin, Vukovich, Primavesi.

Itinerary: Pola - Messina - Gibraltar - Rio de Janeiro - Montevideo - Punta Arenas - Magellan Strait - Valparaiso - Callao - Nukuhiva - Papeete - Apia - Suva - etc. - Port Moresby - Timor - Surabaja - Batavia - Mauritius - Aden - Djedda - Suez - Port Said - Zante - Pola.

  • 1898 Lieutenant of the line, 2nd class
  • 1901 Lieutenant of the line, 1st class
  • In 1909 Benno von Millenkovich was the instructor of the Seeminen-Kommando I and the Seeminen- und Telegraphenschule (May 20 to June 20, 1910 provisional commander) on the sea mine training ship "Gamma".
  • 1910 Corvette captain with rank 5.

Several of his own technical inventions were successfully used in the Navy, including the submarine nets in which the French submarine Curie got caught when it tried to penetrate the port of [[Pula <Pola]] would have.

  • 1913 frigate captain with rank 2
  • 1915 captain of the liner; July 8, 1915 Rank No. 25 allocated

During the war, Benno von Millenkovich commanded the second torpedo flotilla from 1914 to 1915, consisting of a rapid cruiser , 12 destroyers and 36 torpedo boats. In 1916 he took over the first torpedo flotilla with the same composition. In 1917 he was head of the Operations Chancellery in the Navy Ministry in Vienna, in 1918 a member of the Peace Commission in Bucharest and then went to Odessa and Sevastopol as Deputy Chief of the German-Austrian-Bulgarian-Turkish Nautical and Technical Commission for the Black Sea, whose purpose it was through the war to rebuild broken shipping in the Black Sea. Retired on January 1st, 1919.

  • 1919 appointed Rear Admiral.

On August 7, 1919, Benno von Millenkovich was appointed an expert on operational and tactical naval warfare issues at the Commission for the Survey of Military Duties in War.

On January 1, 1921 finally retired.

Decorations (awards)

  • 1912 Military Merit Cross
  • 1913 Memorial Cross 1912/1913
  • 1914 3rd class military service badge for officers with war decorations
  • 1914 Commander's Cross of the Romanian Crown Order
  • 1915 Iron Crown 3rd class with war decorations
  • 1917 Karl-Troop Cross
  • 1917 3rd Class Military Merit Cross with war decoration
  • 1917 German Iron Cross 2nd class and several peace decorations
  • Knight's Cross of the Austrian Leopold Order with war decoration

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personal data
SURNAME Millenkovich, Benno von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Millenkovich, Benno Heinrich Stephan von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian naval officer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Slovenske Konjice
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1946
Place of death Vienna