Friedrich Hagenmeyer (captain)

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Grave - Obelisk of the Wreden family with a plaque on the base for Friedrich Hagenmeyer in the New St. Nikolai Cemetery in Hanover
Inscription panel with dates of birth and death of Hagenmeyer and the abbreviation " Kapitänleutnant D. S. II.
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Friedrich Hagenmeyer (born August 3, 1864 , † July 2, 1914 ) was a German captain of the North German Lloyd .

biography

agenmeyer was in service on various ships of the Bremen- based shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd until after the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries , before he was the captain of the passenger ship Seydlitz from 1907 to 1914 .

In 1903 Hagenmeyer's son of the same name, Friedrich Hagenmeyer (1903–1941), was born in Bremerhaven , who, following the example of his father, also went through a nautical career.

On board the Seydlitz, Hagenmeyer and his crew were able to rescue a total of 45 castaways who had got into distress after several explosions on the steamer Volturno . As a result, this internationally acclaimed event received great recognition for the Seydlitz's officers and crew, including a letter of thanks from the shipwrecked people who were rescued. While still in New York , Hagenmeyer and parts of the officers' staff as well as lower-ranking participants were given various awards and prizes, including by the “Society for the Reward of Lifesavers”. The Uranium Steamship Company Ltd. from Rotterdam sent letters of thanks to Hagenmeyer and Spangenberg, the captain of another ship involved, at the end of October 1913. The German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People awarded Seydlitz a premium of 8,000 marks and honored Captain Hagenmeyer and his second officer Heinrich Niniczak each with a large gold medal and the first officer Johann Cordes, the second officer Johann Hermann Müller and the third officer Paul Meiselbach each with a small gold medal.

The captain, who died a few weeks before the start of the First World War , was buried at the grave of the Wreden family in the New St. Nikolai Cemetery in Hanover .

Archival material

Archival materials and exhibits by and about Friedrich Hagenmeyer can be found, for example

  • in the Historisches Museum Bremerhaven Tecklenborg shipyard as the estate of Hagenmeyer's and his son donated by Hagenmeyer's grandson Jürgen Hagenmeyer from Hamburg at the end of 2004 , including at least one photograph . With the presentation of parts of the estate, according to museum director Alfred Kube, “treasures from the [...] stored collection” of the museum were shown to the public for the first time.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Hagenmeyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the inscription on the plaque on the grave monument in Hanover
  2. ↑ a b c d o.V. : Stations of two careers at Norddeutscher Lloyd on the page tecklenborg-werft.de [undated], last accessed on February 7, 2018
  3. ^ Paul August Ferdinand Neubaur: Yearbook 1913/1914. North German Lloyd Bremen , Berlin: Hobbing & Company, 1914, passim ; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ Heinrich Wartmann (Red.): Manifold. In: The press. Ostmark daily newspaper. Anzeiger für Stadt und Land (= Thorner Presse ), Volume 31, No. 271 of November 18, 1913, [without page number]; as a PDF document on the Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library website
  5. ↑ Compare, for example, the photo documentation of the tomb
personal data
SURNAME Hagenmeyer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German captain
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1864
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1914