December 1916
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This article covers breaking news and events in December 1916 .
Daily events
Friday 1st December
Tomb of de Foucauld near El Golea
- Herceghalom / Hungary : At 12:24 a.m. there was a serious railway accident in which 69 people died.
- Austria-Hungary : The Office for People's Nutrition starts work on the instructions of the Koerber II Ministry .
- Berlin / German Reich : The film drama Cinderella by Urban Gad will be premiered in Berlin's Union theaters, among others. Asta Nielsen plays the main role of the lorry .
- Tamanrasset / Algeria : A hermitage built by Charles de Foucauld is occupied by plundering Tuaregs and rebellious Senussi . Foucauld is said to be kidnapped in order to prevent him from forwarding valuable information to the French army. When horsemen who were mistaken for Méharists (Arab mercenaries in French service) appear at a distance , one of the guards panics and shoots the prisoner. Charles de Foucauld is on November 13, 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI. beatified.
Saturday December 2nd
- Austria-Hungary : Konrad zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst takes over the office of finance minister .
- Austria-Hungary: Charles I takes command of the army by daily order .
- German Empire : The diesel-electric submarine SM U 61 is put into service.
- Between Hoboken and Rotterdam : The Samland , a ship in the service of the Commission for the Belgian Aid Organization, is stopped by the German auxiliary cruiser SMS Möve . The encounter became known a week later and sparked controversy.
Sunday 3rd December
- France : Joseph Joffre is replaced as commander of the French armed forces by Robert Nivelle , who led the successful counter-offensive near Verdun , because of the losses on the Somme .
Monday 4th December
- German Empire : The War Food Office orders the confiscation of all stocks of turnips to secure the people's food .
- 480 nautical miles northwest of Tenerife : The Pío IX , a passenger ship operated by the Spanish shipping company Pinillos Izquierdo y Compañía, gets caught in a severe storm, leaks and sinks the next day.
- 125 nautical miles east of Malta : The ocean liner Caledonia used by the British government as a troop transport is sunk by the German submarine SM U 65 .
Tuesday 5th December
- United Kingdom : Herbert Henry Asquith resigns as Prime Minister . He and his government team are subsequently replaced by the Lloyd George government, led by David Lloyd George .
Wednesday December 6th
- German Empire : The law on the patriotic auxiliary service comes into force. Colloquially also known as the Auxiliary Service Act , it is intended to mobilize forces for war and counteract the revolutionary movement.
- Bucharest / Kingdom of Romania : Soldiers of the Mackensen Army Group invade the Romanian capital . The Battle of the Argesch ended with a success for the Central Powers.
Thursday December 7th
- German Empire : Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Keller becomes Chief of Staff of Army Group Linsingen .
- Austria-Hungary : There is a meeting of the two allied monarchs Charles I / IV. and Wilhelm II (German Empire) and their top military officers in Teschen; Shortly afterwards, the Austro-Hungarian Army High Command was relocated to the Schloss Weilburg, owned by Friedrich, in Baden near Vienna , where it was very close to Kaiser Karl's residence, Schloss Laxenburg .
- Stuttgart / German Empire: The Triadic Ballet has a partial world premiere in the Stadtgarten .
- Cappadocia / Ottoman Empire : Paul Nègre becomes Roman Catholic titular bishop of Cybistra
Friday December 8th
- Berlin / German Empire : The first public screening of the music film Martha takes place in the Mozart Hall. Giuseppe Becce is the conductor of these performances .
- Austria-Hungary : After a separate screening on November 23, 1916 , the silent film melodrama When People Ripe for Love is shown for the mass audience.
- Austria-Hungary: Viktoria Savs , one of two well-known Austrian frontline soldiers, obtained permission from Army Commander Archduke Eugen to serve as a volunteer Landsturm worker with gun in hand and subsequently moved to the Landsturm Infantry Battalion Innsbruck II, in which her father was also Platoon leader serves. She also receives the secret permission to work on the front lines.
Saturday 9th December
- Berlin / German Empire : The Linden Tunnel will be inspected in the presence of the representatives of the Police Headquarters and the Royal Railway Directorate, the Friedrich Krause City Planning Council, representatives of the Greater Berlin Association and the directors of the three tram companies. Those present walk through the tunnel first in both directions before it is used by two tram cars.
- German Empire: Paul von Hindenburg receives the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross in a special level called the Hindenburg Star. In the turmoil of the Second World War, it disappeared from the Prussian Army Museum and has been considered lost ever since.
- Lübheen / German Empire: The potash and rock salt mine fills with water within a few hours and has to be closed.
- United Kingdom : The Royal Navy orders the destroyers HMS Walker and HMS Whitley .
- Denmark : The silent film drama Dora Brandes celebrates its premiere.
Sunday December 10th
- German Empire : Jagdstaffel 2 is renamed Jagdstaffel Boelcke in honor of its first commander Oswald Boelcke by imperial cabinet order retroactively to October 28, 1916 , the day of his death .
- United Kingdom : Due to a shortage of cargo ships , the New Ministeries and Secretaries Act creates the post of Shipping Controller to manage and organize merchant shipping.
- Romania : Ion IC Brătianu is deposed as prime minister following a successful counter-offensive by the Central Powers and the collapse of the Romanian army .
- St. Petersburg / Russian Tsarist Empire : The Toccata in D minor, opus 11 - a work for piano by Sergei Prokofjew - is premiered. The composer plays the piano himself.
- Atlantic 950 km southeast of Cape Race , Newfoundland : The SMS Möve meets the British 10,077 GRT steamship Georgic from the White Star Line , which is on its way from Philadelphia to Brest in France with 1200 horses , oil and wheat on board . The RMS Georgic ignores the signals with the request to stop and continues its journey. The gull fires and kills a Georgic crew member . 142 officers and men are captured and brought on board the Möve . Although the crew of the Georgic is pushing for the ship to be brought to occupied France as a prize in order to save the horses, the commander of the seagull - Nikolaus Graf zu Dohna-Schlodien - sinks the Georgic on site.
Monday December 11th
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- Ten nautical miles south of the island Pantelleria / Italy : In a convoy driving, the French Indus from the German submarine U 63 (Kapitänleutnant Schultze Otto ) torpedoes and is lowered to the position of 36 ° 36 ' N , 12 ° 10' O . Three French and seven Arab crew members and 26 passengers are killed.
- United Kingdom : George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave becomes Home Secretary .
- France : Pierre Auguste Roques is relinquishing the post of Minister of War to Hubert Lyautey after his friend Joffre had to relinquish command of the French army a week earlier on December 3rd .
- Ravenshoe / Australia : The place is connected to Cairns by a railway line .
- Lower Austria / Austria-Hungary : The regional conference of the German social democracy demands next to a peace without annexation from the kk government the complete and immediate release of the discussion of the war aims in the press and meetings, which is prevented by the war censorship.
- Brindisi / Italy : The Italian liner RN Regina Margherita sinks in a storm through a mine laid by the German submarine UC 14 . 674 people die.
Tuesday December 12th
- Europe : After the conquest of Romania , a peace offer from the Central Powers is published, but this has no consequences.
Wednesday December 13th
- Southern Alps : After nine days of snowfall, the snowpack on the Alpine war front reached critical weight. A change in the weather also led warm and humid air masses from the Mediterranean region to the southern Alps and caused it to rain at higher altitudes. Up to 5000 soldiers died in dozens of avalanches .
Thursday December 14th
Location of the Danish West Indies in the Caribbean Sea
- German Empire : The British Saint Théodore , raised as a prize by SMS Möve two days earlier , is put into operation as an auxiliary ship under the name SMS Geier .
- Denmark : The first referendum in the country resolves to sell the Danish West Indies to the USA. On April 1, 1917 , the islands changed hands for $ 25 million.
- Böblingen / German Empire: Jagdstaffel 28 , an air force unit, is set up.
- Hejaz Kingdom : Aziz Ali al-Misri is appointed Minister of War by Hussein ibn Ali on the intercession of Ronald Storrs .
Tuesday December 19th
- Verdun / France : The battle for Verdun , which has been raging since February 21, 1916, ends without any significant shift in the course of the front.
Saturday December 30th
- Petrograd / Russian Empire : The itinerant preacher Rasputin is murdered by Prince Felix Felixowitsch Jussupow , the Duma member Vladimir Purishkevich and Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich with the support of the British secret service.
See also
- Nekrolog December 1916
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in December .
- Category: December commemoration, celebration or action day (catalog with Wikipedia articles for December).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Rintelen: This death was not wanted . In: Charles de Foucauld today. On the 100th anniversary of the death of Charles de Foucauld (themed issue of Mitten in der Welt , vol. 54 (2016), issue 205), pp. 6–10, here p. 10.
- ↑ Johannes Ebert (Red.): The Chronicle: History of the 20th Century to Today . Wissen-Media-Verlag, Gütersloh 2006, ISBN 978-3-577-14641-8 , p. 117.
- ↑ Manfried Rauchsteiner: The First World War and the end of the Habsburg Monarchy 1914–1918 . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2013, p. 674.
- ^ Hermann Cron: History of the German Army in the World War 1914–1918 , Military Publishing House Karl Siegesmund, Berlin 1937, p. 28
- ↑ Count Dohna and His SeaGull, Ships - Georgic smsMoewe.com
- ^ WSL Georgic (I), Titanic and Other White Star Line Ships titanic-whitestarships.com
- ^ Rudolf Neck: Workers and the State in the First World War 1914–1918. (A. Quellen), Volume 1: The State (1. From the beginning of the war to the trial of Friedrich Adler, August 1914 – May 1917. ) Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1964, p. 186.
- ↑ U-boot.net Chronicle of the operations of German submarines ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Tauber, Eliezer: The Arab Movements in World War I. London 1993. pp. 95-96.
