Cai Schaffalitzky de Muckadell

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Cai Baron Schaffalitzky de Muckadell (born October 23, 1877 in Viborg , † January 24, 1972 in Copenhagen , buried in the garrison cemetery) was a Danish nobleman, naval officer, journalist and author .

family

He came from the originally Moravian noble family Schaffalitzky von Muckadell , a branch of whom had moved from Württemberg to Denmark at the beginning of the 18th century. Cai Schaffalitzky de Muckadell was born in Viborg, Denmark ( Midtjylland region ). His parents were lieutenant and later Lieutenant Colonel Baron Ludvig Bernhard Maximilian Schaffalitzky de Muckadell ( 1843 - 1922 ) and Fanny Kirstine Laurine Nielsen, adopted Holm (1859-1944), married for the second time in 1891 with the Swedish Councilor notary Ernst Fredrik Björkman (1861-1925) .

He married his wife Ellen Ingeborg Seiersen (born February 14, 1879 in Malmö , † October 6, 1968 in Copenhagen - Holmen) on December 15, 1900 in Copenhagen (Holmen district ). Her parents were the manufacturer Anthon Seiersen (1833-1896) and Vilhelmine Fritsche (1836-1919).

Career

Cai Schaffalitzky de Muckadell was trained at the Naval Officer School (Danish: Søværnets Officersskole) in Copenhagen (Holmen district) and, after being appointed lieutenant at sea, worked for years as a teacher of naval war history and tactics at the cadet school.

As a naval officer he sailed on the cruiser frigate Fyen in the Mediterranean in 1898 and from 1905–1906 with the schooner Ingolf to the West Indies . He then served in the naval mine system until 1909. From 1909 to 1912 he was a school officer at the cadet school. In connection with the lessons his handbook on the Nordic naval history (Danish: Haandbog i Nordens Søkrigshistorie ) appeared in 1911 , which became a standard textbook for seafaring.

In 1913 he became first officer on the paddle steamer Königsyacht Dannebrog (Danish: Kongeskibet Dannebrog ), (built in 1879).

From 1913 to 1919 he was commander in chief of the submarines . In the years 1918-1923 he edited the magazine for Seewesen (Danish: Tidsskrift for Søvæsen ).

In 1920 Cai Schaffalitzky de Muckadell finished his military service and became a civilian employee, first as head of the accounting department in the Orlogsværftet in Copenhagen, from 1922 with the title of director. He then went to the Navy Ministry as a department head in 1926, but had to say goodbye in 1931 because of an unnecessary purchase of lumber.

After that, Cai Schaffalitzky de Muckadell began writing books for boys. In the period from 1931 to 1960 he published more than 31 marine boys' books, which achieved great popularity. The books were all published by the Copenhagen publisher Jespersen & Pio, most of them in two editions.

The Dansk biografisk leksikon writes about Cai Schaffalitzky de Muckadell's sea novels that they are not only about nature, but also serve the socially preserving and nationalistic feeling of the people, combined with a large part of Danish naval war history. His novels until 1939 do not have their starting point in Danish naval war history or Danish naval heroes. The books of the 1930s act as contemporary historical novels by boys and young men who hired on various ships and experienced all kinds of adventures on sailing ships and on trading rafts. The novels from the war years 1940-1945 deal exclusively with historical topics. This is seen as part of the national, intellectual mobilization under the German occupation. The post-war books were a mixture of historical and contemporary novels.

One can read Cai Schaffalitzky de Muckadell's novels for boys as society-preserving and nationalist fairy tales in which the old and genuine virtues are upheld, but they can also be read as an expression of educational justification for conveying naval war history, in particular Danish naval war history, which the narrator can understand want to do for children and young people. It is characteristic of the author that many novels are dedicated to children of his own family.

He later became head of the Berlin editorial team of the Berlingske Tidende newspaper from 1932 to 1938 , then Nordic editor from 1938 to 1940 and later from 1940 to 1941 its foreign and military policy editor.

Cai Schaffalitzky de Muckadell was also chairman of the See-Leutnant-Gesellschaft (Danish: Søe-Lieutenant-Selskabet) from 1912 to 1914, administrator for Holmens Kirke from 1926 to 1932 and attaché of the Danish Olympic team at the Summer Olympics in Berlin 1936 .

Honors

Cai Schaffalitzky de Muckadell was a knight of the Dannebrog Order and Dannebrogmann (Danish: Dannebrogsmand), he also received a number of foreign medals.

Career (tabular)

  • 1894 Sea Cadet (Danish Søkadet)
  • 1898 lieutenant at sea (Danish Sekondløjtnant)
  • 1902 First Lieutenant at Sea (Danish Premierløjtnant)
  • 1914 Captain of the Sea (Danish Kaptajn)
  • 1920 resignation from the Navy (Danish: Søværnet)
  • 1922 Director of the Orlogswerft in Copenhagen, accounting department
  • 1926 Head of Department in the Danish Ministry of the Navy
  • 1931 Farewell from the Ministry of the Navy
  • 1932–1938 head of the Berlin editorial team for the Berlingske Tidende newspaper
  • 1938–1940 editor for the northern area at Berlingske Tidende
  • 1940–1941 Foreign and military policy editor at Berlingske Tidende
  • 1941–1945 editor at the Berlingske Aftenavis newspaper (evening edition of Berlingske Tidende)

Authorship

  • Haandbog i Nordens Søkrigshistorie , Copenhagen 1911 (all books published in Copenhagen)
  • Stillehavsproblemet . In: Geografisk Tidsskrift . Volume 27, 1924, pp. 149-157 (Danish).
  • Grønland i Forvandlingens Tegn , 1929
  • Nyboderdrengen , 1931
  • Et glemt dansk Koloniforsøg . In: Geografisk Tidsskrift . Volume 34, No. 2, 1931, pp. 95-103 (Danish).
  • Chresten Jungmand , 1932
  • Chresten Kok , 1933
  • Søkadet Flink , 1934
  • Søløjtnant Erik Viking , 1935
  • Radiotelegraphist Prik , 1936
  • Pehr Septimus , 1937
  • Frisk and Laber , 1938
  • The sidste Graaspurv , 1939
  • Hooray for Willemoes , 1940
  • Kanonbaad Ohøj , 1941
  • Lærling Klar , 1942
  • Skarpe Skud , 1943
  • Under Lilliebanneret , 1944.
  • Hekla Letter , 1945.
  • Torden over Nordsøen , 1946.
  • Variety Pim , 1948.
  • M / S "Family Jensen" , 1948.
  • Det stjålne monastery , 1949.
  • Lord Søren , 1950.
  • Stormen på Anholt , 1951.
  • The kidnappede admiral , 1952.
  • Peter Bolettes Fyrtårn , 1953.
  • Kaptajn Jansen tager Tjansen , 1954.
  • Generalen's wills , 1954.
  • Dronningens Marmorhånd , 1955.
  • Vicekaptajn Aquarius , 1956.
  • Letmatros Carlo , 1957.
  • Højt Spil , 1958.
  • Tot Sømand , 1959.
  • Kapergasternes Prins , 1960.

Literature on Cai Schaffalitzky de Muckadell

  • Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard, Officerer i den dansk-norske Søetat Volume 2, side 438.
  • Danske Søofficerer 1933-1982 , p. 491.
  • Obituary in Tidsskrift for Søvæsen 1973, p. 149.
  • Kraks Blå Bog , 1957.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ site tomb (gravsted.dk): Image of the tomb of Cai Schaffalitzky de Muckadell with short biography (Danish) , accessed on July 29, 2017
  2. ↑ Gyldendal: Den Store Danske - Cai Schaffalitzky de Muckadell, Danish , accessed on July 24, 2017
  3. ↑ site tomb (gravsted.dk): Image of the tomb of Cai Schaffalitzky de Muckadell with short biography (Danish) , accessed on July 29, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Schaffalitzky de Muckadell, Cai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaffalitzky de Muckadell, Cai Baron (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish naval officer and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Viborg
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1972
Place of death Copenhagen