Erich Giese (naval officer)
Erich Wilhelm Theobald Giese (born June 22, 1887 , † June 5, 1917 in the English Channel ) was a naval officer in the German Imperial Navy who fell in the First World War .
career
Giese joined the Imperial Navy on April 1, 1905. When the war broke out, he was in command of the torpedo boat S 96 . In the following two years (November 1914 to November 1916) he served as a commander on the torpedo division boat D 9 and on the torpedo boats S 176 , S 174 and V 186 .
In November 1916 he became commander on in December 1912 at Schichau in Elbing from spilled stack torpedo boat S 20 . Giese , who has meanwhile been promoted to lieutenant captain , operated with this boat in the association of the 2nd Destroyer Half -Flotilla of the Destroyer Flotilla Flanders stationed in Zeebrugge in the English Channel .
In the early morning hours of June 5, 1917, S 20 and sister ship S 15 (Kaptl. Diedrich Jacobs) made an advance against the British submarine barriers off Zeebrugge and Ostend . The two boats were stopped at around 5 a.m. by superior British naval forces of the so-called Harwich Force . The clearly inferior S 20 with its two 10.5 cm L / 45 guns sank in the fire of the three small cruisers HMS Centaur , HMS Canterbury and HMS Conquest and some destroyers off the Scheldt estuary . Forty-nine men of the 74-strong crew , including Erich Giese, were killed. S 15 could be brought to Zeebrugge badly damaged.
Honors
- In his honor, the Navy named its destroyer Z 12 Erich Giese (in service on March 4, 1939; sunk on March 13, 1940 after a battle in Narvik , Norway).
- In Munich , Riem district , Erich-Giese-Strasse is named in his honor.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marinenachrichtenblatt MNB 13, III / 2013, p. 3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giese, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Giese, Erich Wilhelm Theobald (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German naval officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1887 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 5, 1917 |
| Place of death | English Channel |