Friedrich Brutzer
Friedrich Brutzer (born September 25, 1879 in Riga ; † June 12, 1958 at Gut Schönberg near Westerhofen ) was a German naval officer , most recently vice admiral .
Life
Friedrich Brutzer was a son of the Riga psychiatrist and founder of the Rothenberg sanatorium near Riga Gregor Brutzer (1834-1883). Heinrich Wilhelm Brutzer was his uncle. In 1891 the widow Wilhelmine Brutzer, nee. von Kieter, with the children to Lübeck. Immediately after graduating from high school at the Katharineum in Lübeck, Brutzer joined the Imperial Navy at Easter 1898 and was an Admiral Staff Officer on the staff of Admiral Franz von Hipper during the First World War .
After the end of the war he was accepted into the Imperial Navy as a corvette captain . From April to September 1925 he commanded the liner Hannover , meanwhile promoted to captain at sea . With the promotion to Rear Admiral on January 1, 1928, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Naval Station of the Baltic Sea . Shortly afterwards, in May 1928, he became chief of the naval command office of the naval command in the Reichswehr Ministry in Berlin . In this function, Brutzer was promoted to Vice Admiral on October 1, 1928. On September 28, 1930, he was ceremoniously adopted into retirement.
His son Gerfried Brutzer was also a naval officer and during World War II a . a. Commander of the destroyer Z 38 .
Awards
- Red Eagle Order IV class
- China commemorative coin
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
- Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords
- Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Albrecht with Swords
- Hanseatic Cross Hamburg
- Friedrich-August-Kreuz II. And I. Class
- Hanseatic Cross Lübeck
literature
- Hans H. Hildebrand and Ernest Henriot: Germanys Admirals 1849-1945 Volume 1: A – G , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1988, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3
- Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
Web links
- Personal data in the Federal Archives
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Friedrich Brutzer. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ^ Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Wilhelm Gregor Brutzer. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- ^ Hermann Genzken: The high school graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version), no. 1067. Gustav Radbruch , Gustav Brecht and Hermann Link were among his fellow high school graduates
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Ranking list of the German Reichsmarine , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1929, p. 39.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brutzer, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German naval officer, most recently Vice Admiral of the Reichsmarine |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1958 |
| Place of death | Gut Schönberg near Westerhofen |