Diedrich Johann Longé

Diedrich Johann Longé

Diedrich Johann Longé (born December 5, 1779 in Innala ; † May 10, 1863 in Stralsund ) was a Swedish and Prussian officer in the navy. He was instrumental in building up the Prussian Navy .

Longé was in time to Sweden belonging Finnish born Innala estate. In 1794 he joined the Savolax Infantry Regiment and in 1799 switched to the Navy . On May 23, 1801 he passed the exam as a naval officer in Sveaborg (Finnish: Suomenlinna) and served in the Swedish navy until 1805 . In 1805 he was released from service to further qualify on English merchant and warships. He got into Russian and French captivity . Longé was already serving under the Swedish flag in Swedish Pomerania and was given leave of absence from the Swedish Navy on August 15, 1815 to serve in the Prussian Navy after Prussia had received Western Pomerania from Sweden. The Prussian king confirmed this takeover on April 2, 1816 and appointed Longé captain. From then on he was stationed in Stralsund, which at that time still had the character of a fortress .

In Stralsund, Longé initiated the construction of the armed schooner Stralsund , which is considered to be the birth of the Prussian Navy. He became the ship's commanding officer.

On July 10, 1820, he presented a plan for the gradual expansion of the Prussian navy. After the formation of the Royal Navy Depot on Dänholm off Stralsund, Longé became its head on August 17, 1827. He was involved in drawing up a fleet plan in 1836. In 1848 he became chairman of the naval committee in Stralsund and initiated the construction of the rowing gunboat “Strela-Sund”. After the Prussian king rejected his request for reactivation, Longé gave up his work on the naval committee.

He died on May 10, 1863 and was buried in the Stralsund St.-Jürgen-Friedhof (Knieperfriedhof) . However, his grave can no longer be located there today.

Web links

Karl Hinrich Peter : aspiring naval officer. Your education from 1848 until today. (PDF; 2.6 MB; in pkgodzik.de .) Mürwik , 1969 (edited by Peter Godzik in 2009, with some additions from 1973).