Eduard Heldt

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Eduard Heldt (born October 18, 1818 in Greifswald , † January 23, 1885 in Lübeck ) was a German naval officer , most recently Rear Admiral of the North German and Imperial Navy .

Life

Heldt went to sea on merchant ships from 1832 to 1849 and acquired the patent as a second class boatman in 1843 . On April 28, 1849, he joined the Prussian Navy as an auxiliary officer. Heldt was initially the helmsman on the post steamer Queen Elisabeth and from May to August 1849 first officer on the Aviso Prussian Eagle . Then he was for training purposes with the sailor tribe division. On April 2, 1850 he was promoted to lieutenant second class and in 1851 took over command of the Radaviso SMS Salamander . When the Reichsflotte took over the wheel frigate Barbarossa in 1852 , Heldt was in command of the ship on the transfer trip to Danzig , which was combined with a landing exercise by the sea ​​battalion . On January 23, 1854 he was promoted to lieutenant first class . In 1855 he led the ship boy training ship Mercur in the Baltic Sea. The promotion to Korvettenkapitän took place on January 12, 1856. From 1857 to 1861 Heldt was Oberwerftdirektor in Danzig and at the same time he commanded the technical department (naval department) of the naval station of the Baltic Sea . From May 15, 1862 to December 25, 1862 Heldt was in command of the covered corvette Gazelle and carried out test drives. From December 26, 1862 to March 25, 1867 he was Chief of Staff of the High Command of the Navy and was promoted to Captain on August 1, 1863 .

On April 10, 1867, Heldt took over the covered corvette Hertha , with which he set off for the eastern Mediterranean on September 14, 1867, where he took part with other Prussian ships in an international mission off Crete to protect the Greek population from attacks by the Turkish occupation forces. For a visit to the Turkish government on December 8, 1867, Heldt briefly switched to the covered corvette Medusa , as he was not allowed to pass the Dardanelles with the larger Hertha . The Hertha led Heldt until 15 May 1868. As of May 4, 1868 Heldt was first with the representative of the Chief of Naval Station Baltic instructed the meantime to keel was laid. In this position promoted to rear admiral on September 15, 1868, Heldt was appointed chief of the naval station on March 5, 1869. At the same time, he acted as a member or president of the study commission. During the Franco-Prussian War , Heldt was also from July 19, 1870 to March 9, 1871, Commander-in-Chief of the Baltic Sea Forces. Its flagship was the Radaviso Prussian Eagle . On December 8, 1874, Heldt was put up for disposal . He died on January 23, 1885 in Lübeck.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 2: HO. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1989, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 , pp. 50-51.
  • Mirko Graetz: Prince Adalbert's forgotten fleet. The North German Federal Navy 1867–1871. Lulu Enterprises Inc. Morrisville, NC (USA) 2008, ISBN 978-1-4092-2509-6 , pp. 31-32.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f http://www.deutsches-marinearchiv.de/Archiv/1867-1871/Personen/Admirale/heldt.htm Rear Admiral Eduard Heldt
personal data
SURNAME Heldt, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rear admiral
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1885
Place of death Lübeck