Friedrich Traugott Schmidt

Friedrich Traugott Schmidt (born April 19, 1899 in Schwerin , † February 21, 1944 in a plane crash in the Aegean Sea ) was a German rear admiral .

Life

Schmidt joined the Imperial Navy on October 2, 1915 during the First World War as a volunteer with the prospect of a career as a naval officer . He graduated from the Mürwik naval school and received his sea training on the great cruiser Freya and the ship of the line Kaiserin . Schmidt then spent three months on the artillery training ship Kaiserin Augusta for further training and then joined the school torpedo boat semi-flotilla. In March 1917 he emigrated to Constantinople , was promoted to lieutenant in mid-December 1917 and served on the great cruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim (ex. SMS Goeben ) until September 1918 . Schmidt was awarded the Iron Cross II Class and the Iron Crescent for his achievements .

After the end of the war he was initially a watch officer on the small cruiser Nuremberg . After the ship had been transferred to Scapa Flow , Schmidt returned to Germany in December 1918, was used on various torpedo boats and taken over into the Reichsmarine .

Schmidt served in the German Navy and commanded the Captain of July 20, 1942 to September 9, 1943 the light cruiser Emden . In his last assignment he was in command of the Istrian naval defense . On the flight to take over the command of the commandant of the sea defense Attica, he was killed in the crash of his plane over the Aegean Sea. Posthumously he was promoted to Rear Admiral on March 1, 1944 .

His son is Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig .

literature

• 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 3: P-Z. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 , pp. 236-237.

Web links

• Friedrich Traugott Schmidt biography at bgef.de