Friedrich Gädecke

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Friedrich Gädecke (born May 15, 1866 in Kleinheide near Aurich ; † May 26, 1935 in Kiel ) was a German admiral with several longer missions abroad in the South Seas, off the African coast and in the waters of East Asia. In 1900 he was employed in the message office of the Reichsmarinamt .

Life

Friedrich Gädecke joined the Imperial Navy in 1882 after attending primary school . Here completed the basic nautical training from September 14, 1882 to May 12, 1883 at the naval school. After a long period on board, he returned to the naval school in 1885 and completed basic training on September 26, 1886 at the naval school. From 1889 he stayed on a longer assignment as part of his assignment to the torpedo department in the South Seas. This mission lasted until September 30, 1892. After several on-board commands as a watch and torpedo officer, his next assignment abroad led him from October 1897 to July 1900 in the waters off Africa. Here he was on the move as part of a torpedo test squad.

When he returned to Germany in 1900, he was employed as a lieutenant captain in the message office (N) of the Reichsmarineamt in Berlin. In August 1900, frigate captain August von Heeringen (1855–1927) held the office of the board. The main task of this institution was to initiate the organization of intensive propaganda work in preparation of the naval laws and the development of the imperial navy in order to steer the main line of vision from the imperial army to the navy. However, with the entry into force of the 2nd Fleet Act on July 1, 1900, the news office (N) was already at the height of its activity since it was founded in 1897. At the time when Gädecke took over the work area, the news office had five officers and a few auxiliary staff grown. The greatest expenditure was made by the necessary reading service, which concerned the publications of 163 newspaper and magazine publishers as well as other news agencies. The results of this information research were passed on in the form of marine-related short messages, bulletins and summaries in written form to newspaper publishers, journalists, committees of the Reichstag, press offices of companies and occasionally only to Reich ministries. The latter was difficult insofar as the sovereignty for press releases among the authorities within the ministries was still with the Foreign Office at that time. But at the time of Gädecke's deployment, the news office also began to publish its own publications, maritime literature and its own magazine. That was the " Nauticus - Yearbook for Germany's Sea Interests", which was still hesitant in 1899 and then regularly compiled, printed and distributed from the 1900 year onwards.

After a very short period of service in the intelligence office of the Reichsmarinamt, Friedrich Gädecke's next assignment abroad led him to the naval squadron in East Asia. He returned from this assignment in 1904 and from April 1, 1904 took on a position as a consultant in the technical department of the Reichsmarineamt. He retired from the Navy with the rank of Vice Admiral.

Friedrich Gädecke died on May 26, 1935 in Kiel.

literature

  • Wilhelm Deist, Fleet Policy and Fleet Propaganda, Stuttgart 1976
  • 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 1: A-G. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1988. ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 . P. 400f.
  • Marcus König, agitation-censorship-propaganda. The submarine war and the German public in World War I, ibidem Verlag Munich, 2014
  • Ranking lists of the Imperial Navy, Verlag ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, Kiel University Bookstore (born 1895 to 1905)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ranking lists of the Imperial Navy, Verlag Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, Kiel University Bookstore, SS 7ff. (Born 1899 to 1901)
  2. ↑ Hans Hildebrand, Formation History and Staffing of the German Armed Forces 1815–1990, Volume 2, Biblio Verlag Osnabrück, 2000
  3. ↑ Marcus König, Agitation-Censorship-Propaganda. The submarine war and the German public in World War I, ibidem Verlag München, 2014, p. 46 ff. And cf. Wilhelm Deist, Flottenpolitik und Flottenpropaganda, Stuttgart 1976, SA. 81ff.
  4. ↑ Hildebrand, Henriod, Deutschlands Admirale 1849-1945, Biblio Verlag Osnabrück 1989, Volume AG, p. 400 f.
personal data
SURNAME Gädecke, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German admiral
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinheide near Aurich
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1935
Place of death Kiel