Friedrich Kloebe

Friedrich Kloebe (born January 29, 1869 in Smyrna , Ottoman Empire , † September 17, 1932 in Bad Oeynhausen ) was a German rear admiral .

Life

Kloebe joined the Imperial Navy as a cadet on April 11, 1885 . After completion of basic training and mandatory board service on the training ship Niobe , he was on 13 April 1886 midshipman . At the end of his training on May 18, 1888, he was promoted to lieutenant at sea . Then he came to the ironclad Bavaria . He experienced his first assignment abroad as an officer on watch on board the cruiser frigate Leipzig . Under the sea captain Fritz Rötger, the Leipzig set sail in the spring of 1890 for a voyage through the Mediterranean via East Asia to New Zealand and Samoa . After a short period of cooperation in the locally stationed German fleet association, the journey continued to Chile in 1891 . During the Chilean civil war in the early summer of 1891, the ship remained in the coastal area of ​​Chile to support German interests. Only at the end of the year did the voyage continue to South Africa , where it arrived in 1892 and the ship had to be overhauled at the shipyard in Cape Town . After the onward voyage , Kloebe disembarked in Colombo in April 1892 and started his journey home on the steamer Lawang . Returned to Germany in June 1892, he was used as a company officer in the II. Sailor Division and II. Shipyard Division and temporarily as an officer on watch on the Aviso hunt . After brief service on the Empress Augusta and Mars , Kloebe was transferred to the sailors' detachment on Heligoland in early October 1893 .

Two years later he embarked on the journey to West Africa on the steamer Salier to serve as an officer on watch on the station ship Hyäne for a year . This was followed by uses in the same capacity on the armored ships Brandenburg and Weißenburg as well as the promotion to captainleutnant . From October 1898 Kloebe worked as a teacher at the deck officers' school in Kiel and in the meantime served as first officer on the survey ship Hyäne for half a year . From the end of June to mid-September, Kloebe was subsequently also a nativation officer on the small cruiser Niobe and on the large cruiser Victoria Louise . He then worked as a speaker at the torpedo test command and was temporarily employed as a commander of the torpedo boats S 33 , G 89 and S 66 . His third assignment abroad took Kloebe in October 1903 by land via Siberia to East Asia, where he served as first officer on the large cruiser Hansa and was promoted to corvette captain in mid-May 1904 . He returned to Germany via Nagasaki by the end of October 1905 with the steamer Rhine and was at the disposal of the chief of the North Sea naval station . From November 1 to December 31, 1905, Kloebe was commissioned to represent the artillery officer from the field and to manage the artillery and mine depot in Wilhelmshaven . Then followed three years as a member of the ship inspection committee. Kloebe was promoted to frigate captain on November 10, 1908, and at the end of March 1909 changed to commander on the coastal armored ship Aegir . On September 16, 1909 he was entrusted with the management of the board of directors of the central resort and the assistant to the chief shipyard director at the Imperial Shipyard in Danzig . Under promotion to Captain, he took on 22 March of the following year the mandate completely and led him to September 1912. Then was he the head of the naval base of the Baltic Sea available and was on 14 December 1912 in approval of his leave request for disposition made.

With the beginning of the First World War Kloebe was z. D. officer reused. Initially, he was assigned to the Admiral's staff until October 1915 and worked in the intelligence department. During this time he had already been a war correspondent in neutral Greece and was made available to the naval attachés at the German embassy in Athens, Corvette Captain Alexander von Senarclens-Grancy as an assistant. For the baron, who was not yet entrusted with the conditions in Athens, Kloebe remained a valuable employee who was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class. At the end of March 1916 he was recalled from Athens and until mid-August 1916 he was again assigned to the intelligence service of the Admiralty's staff. Kloebe then received the post of equipment director at the Imperial Shipyard in Danzig until he was made available to the chief of the naval station of the Baltic Sea or the admiral's staff in October 1918. After the war ended on December 30, 1918, he was retired and on this date, with seniority from August 30, 1919, he was given the character of Rear Admiral.

Kloebe died on September 17, 1932 at the age of 63 in Bad Oeynhausen.

literature

• Thomas Boghardt : Spies of the Kaiser. German Covert Operations in Great Britain during the First World War Era. Houndmills / New York (Palgrave Macmillian) 2004. ISBN 1-4039-3248-4 .
• Dermot Bradley (Ed.) Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernst Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 2: HO. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1989, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 , pp. 254-255.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: Ship biographies from Kaiser to Lütjens. Volume 5: The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present day. Mundus Verlag, Ratingen.
2. ^ Klaus-Volker Giessler: The institution of the naval attaché in the empire. Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein 1976, ISBN 3-7646-1626-1 , p. 310.