Bruno von Vietinghoff

Bruno von Vietinghoff

Bruno Gotthard Eduard Freiherr von Vietinghoff called Scheel ( Russian Бруно Александрович фон Фитингоф transcribed Bruno Alexandrovich fon Fitingof * 15. December 1849 in wholesale Kongota , Livonia ; † 27. May 1905 died in the Russo-Japanese War in the Battle of Tsushima ) was an Imperial Russian Captain of the 1st rank. He was promoted posthumously to admiral .

Life

He came from the Baltic branch of the originally Westphalian noble family Vietinghoff, founded in the 14th century . He entered the cadet school of the Imperial Russian Navy on September 28, 1866 . His on-board training took place in the summer of 1867 on the frigate Gromoboï ( Громобой ), in the summer of 1868 on the corvette Bajan ( Баян ), in the summer of 1869 on the gunboat Marewo ( Марево ), in the summer of 1870 on the frigate Peresvjet ( Пересвет. ) And in autumn Winter 1870/71 on the corvette Pamjat Merkuria ( Память Меркурия ), a training ship in the Black Sea . Vietinghoff was appointed guard on April 24, 1870 and transferred to the 2nd Fleet in May 1870. After further training trips in the summer and autumn of 1871 on the frigate Petropavlovsk ( Петропавловск ) and the artillery school ship Perwenets ( Первенец ) he was promoted to Michman (sub-lieutenant at sea) on April 24, 1872 . After 10 months (November 1872 - September 1873) at the infantry school, he was transferred to the customs flotilla at the beginning of October 1873, where he served on the customs cutter Zorkaya ( Зоркая ) from 1873–1874 and on the customs cutter Tschasowoi ( Часовой ) from 1875–1977 . January 1876 was promoted to Leitenant ( lieutenant at sea ). On May 16, he was transferred to the 6th Fleet. In the spring of 1878 he served for six weeks on the armored gunboat Smertsch ( Смерч ). Then he was again made available to the customs flotilla, where he commanded the schooner Strasch ( Страж ) from April 21, 1878 to May 6, 1884 .

In April 1885 Vietinghoff was transferred to the 7th Fleet, where he commanded the marines on the clipper Schemchug ( Жемчуг ) until the end of September 1885 . Then he began the staff officer training at the Naval Academy, after which he was promoted to captain 2nd rank on January 14, 1887 ( Kapitan wtorowo ranga = frigate captain). He then served first on the gunboat Manschur ( Манджур ), then as commander from November 1891 on the schooner Samoyed ( Самоед ) and from January 1, 1893 again on the Smertsch, which has been classified as an armored ship since 1892 . On February 12, 1895 he became the commander of the Georg-Tele ( Георг-тепе ) in Baku in the Caspian Sea . In November 1897 he was transferred to the 3rd Fleet in the Baltic Sea and appointed commander of the Reval naval station . In March 1900 Vietinghoff was appointed commander of the old ship of the line Kremlin ( Кремль ), which served as an artillery school ship , and in October 1900 he was transferred to the naval artillery school department.

There he became the commander of the ship of the line Nawarin ( Наварин ), launched in 1891 in 1904 , which had returned from East Asia in April 1902 and served as an artillery school ship until its modernization planned for 1905 . Some modifications (installation of a radio system, overhaul of the steam boiler, installation of four 76 mm Canet rapid fire guns) were made after the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War because the ship was to be relocated to East Asia with other units of the Baltic Fleet .

In the naval battle at Tsushima that took place on May 27, 1905 , Vietinghoff was seriously wounded by shrapnel, and when his ship finally overturned and sank after several torpedo hits during the night, he and almost the entire crew of the Nawarin sank .

In the Admiralty in Saint Petersburg (not removed even in communist times) hangs a plaque for the “Hero of Russia”, Bruno Alexandrowitsch Vietinghoff.

Footnotes

1. ↑ All dates according to the Gregorian calendar .
2. ↑ http://flot.sevastopol.info/ship/parus/corvet/pamyat_merkuria.htm