Eduard von Jachmann

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Eduard Jachmann

Eduard Karl Emanuel von Jachmann (born March 2, 1822 in Danzig , † October 21, 1887 in Oldenburg ) was a German vice admiral .

origin

His parents were the Prussian government councilor Reinhold Bernhard Jachmann (* August 16, 1767, † September 28, 1843) and his wife Minna Elisabeth Schaaf .

Life

Jachmann attended Marienwerder high school and went to sea as a cabin boy. After completing his helmsman training in 1843, he served on the Corvette SMS Amazone of the Prussian Navy in the Mediterranean and on the American coast . Promoted to lieutenant in the sea in 1845 , Jachmann became first officer in 1846 and commander of this ship in 1848 .

From 1849 to 1852 Jachmann commanded a flotilla of gunboats in Stralsund during the Schleswig-Holstein War . He then became head of the naval department of the Prussian War Ministry in Berlin .

As first officer, Jachmann took part in a trip of the SMS Gefion to South America , the West Indies and North America in 1853/54. He was then appointed head shipyard director in Danzig and corvette captain . In 1857 he became director of a department of the newly established Admiralty . After his promotion to sea captain in 1859, he led the frigate SMS Thetis as commander during an expedition to East Asia and China , from which he returned in December 1862. From then on he was entrusted with the management of the chief of the naval station of the Baltic Sea .

During the German-Danish War in 1864, Jachmann led the naval forces in the Baltic Sea as chief of the station command of the Baltic Sea and was also the commander of the steam corvette SMS Arcona . On March 17, 1864, he led the naval battle at Jasmund ( Rügen ) on the Prussian side , whereupon he was appointed rear admiral . After the war he became head of the Baltic Sea Naval Station in Kiel and also headed the training squadron in the North and Baltic Seas every year . In 1867 he was promoted to President of the Navy Ministry and in 1868 to Vice Admiral. In addition, from 1867 he was the Prussian authorized representative of the Federal Council of the North German Confederation. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 Jachmann was Commander-in-Chief in the North Sea.

After Albrecht von Stosch was appointed Minister of the Navy on December 31, 1871 , Jachmann retired . He was raised to hereditary nobility on November 27, 1882. The Jachmann Bridge in Wilhelmshaven (both the old and the new) is named after him.

Vice-Admiral Eduard von Jachmann's grave site. It is located in Oldenburg-Osternburg, Dreifaltigkeitskirche cemetery, Cloppenburger Strasse. Established in 1887. It is not the original tomb. No information is available about the redesign of the grave site. There is a plaque probably made of cast iron on the brick tombstone. There is an anchor on the grave site.
Plaque on the tombstone of Vice Admiral Eduard von Jachmann

The grave of Admiral Jachmann is in the cemetery of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in the Oldenburg district of Osternburg . On the night of the Sunday of the Dead in 1964, the grave site was desecrated by suspected metal thieves who first knocked over the tombstone and then tried to drag away the anchor from the grave. Due to its weight, the thieves left the anchor after 30 meters in front of the cemetery exit, where it was found by churchgoers the next day. The grave site was apparently restored on the same day by members of the “Marineverein Oldenburg”, who looked after the grave site.

family

Jachmann married Anna Elisabeth Jachmann on September 25, 1852 in Trutenau (* February 1, 1831 - March 21, 1912). The couple had several children:

  • Maria Annette (* June 16, 1853 - December 24, 1875) ∞ 1874 Baron Axel von Maltzahn, major general
  • Erich Wolfgang Eduard (born October 10, 1857 - † March 20, 1935), Major a. D. ∞ 1895 Elisabeth Esther Luise Herta Marie von Witzleben (* August 30, 1871; † February 22, 1937)
  • Konrad Moritz Immnuel (born May 5, 1864), retired Lieutenant Colonel D. ∞ Anna König
  • Siegfried Karl Alfred (March 28, 1867 - May 12, 1945), Rear Admiral ∞ 1904 (divorced in 1916) Freiin Helene (Ellen) Luise Karoline Ida von Hollen (January 1, 1884 - September 8, 1936)

literature

Web links

Commons : Eduard von Jachmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b German biography: Jachmann, Eduard von - German biography. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ North German Confederation . In: Web Lexicon
  3. ↑ Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 1 : Historical overview. Ship biographies from Adler to Augusta . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 238 (Licensed edition by Koehler's Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, approx. 1990).
  4. ↑ The widow married Friedrich Wilhelm von Schroeder in 1917 (* January 23, 1883; † March 10, 1945)
personal data
SURNAME Jachmann, Eduard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jachmann, Eduard Karl Emanuel von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Vice Admiral
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1887
Place of death Oldenburg