Bernhard von Tschirschky

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Bernhard Friedrich Wilhelm Leonard Richard Otto von Tschirschky and Bögendorff (born October 7, 1888 in Kobelau , † October 16, 1918 in Ostend ) was a German lieutenant captain and naval attaché .

Life

origin

Bernhard von Tschirschky was born as the eldest child of the Silesian landowner Günther von Tschirschky (1860-1914), and thus a member of the noble Tschirschky family , and his wife Johanna Amanile Nanny van Limburg-Stirum (1866-1944). He was followed by seven other children, including the diplomat Fritz Günther von Tschirschky . His other relatives included the Dutch diplomat Johan Paul van Limburg Stirum and the German diplomats Friedrich zu Limburg-Stirum and Heinrich von Tschirschky (1858-1916).

Military career

On April 1, 1905, Bernhard von Tschirschky joined the Imperial Navy . As a first lieutenant at sea , he was sent as a naval attaché to the German embassy in the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople , where he was responsible for maintaining marine political relations between the two countries.

At the beginning of the First World War, Bernhard von Tschirschky was deployed as the commander of the seaplane of the Marine Corps Flanders ( sea flight station I). In September 1916, von Tschirschky was promoted to lieutenant captain. In mid-1917 he was appointed commander of the List Seaplane Station on Sylt (Seaplane Department of the Marine Corps). At the end of March 1916 he refused to be awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class for Erich Killinger , stating that he had already received the Iron Cross 2nd Class and that he had had enough opportunities to obtain it since his transfer to Flanders. For his work he received the Iron Cross II. And I. Classes, the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords and the Knight's Cross II. Class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion with Oak Leaves and Swords and the Friedrich August Cross I. Class.

Bernhard von Tschirschky died on October 16, 1918 in the field hospital in Ostend of double pneumonia, which he contracted while the German western front was being relocated from Belgium when the military installations in the port of Zeebrugge were destroyed .

In August 1936 an air traffic control ship of the German Air Force was named after him. The whereabouts of Bernhard von Tschirschky is unclear.

literature

  • German officers in Turkey (1756–1940), study 1944
  • Marine Attaché, Books LLC, Wiki Series, Memphis USA, 2011

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmuth Damerau: German Soldier Yearbook . Schild Verlag, 1986, ISBN 978-3-88014-084-4 , p. 382 ( google.de [accessed on May 8, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy for the year 1918 , Ed .: Marine-Kabinett , Mittler & Sohn Verlag , Berlin 1918, p. 42
  3. ↑ Marineattaché, Books LLC, Wiki Series, Memphis USA, 2011, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Tschirschky, Bernhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tschirschky and Boegendorff, Bernhard Friedrich Wilhelm Leonard Richard Otto von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lieutenant captain and naval attaché
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Kobelau
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1918
Place of death East End