Friedrich von Bülow (naval officer)

Jaspar Friedrich Carl Otto Ulrich von Bülow (born March 10, 1870 in Doberan , † December 19, 1929 in Ratzeburg ) was a German rear admiral .

Life

Bülow, a son of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz court marshal Jaspar von Bülow , who died early , joined the Imperial Navy as a cadet on April 13, 1888 . He first completed his basic training on the training ship SMS Niobe and then came to the naval school for the first time, where he became a midshipman on April 9, 1889 . In 1906 he was assigned to the Reichsmarineamt in Berlin. After that, the captain of the sea (from September 5, 1911) became the wing adjutant of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Bülow was in command of the large-line ship SMS Kaiser from October 1, 1912 to January 10, 1913 . Due to illness, he was relieved of his post and made available to the chief of the North Sea naval station until February 28, 1914 . After Bülow was able to work again, he was commanded from March 1 to July 29, 1914 to the Admiralty's staff of the Navy. There he then acted beyond the outbreak of the First World War until April 19, 1916 as head of the central department. Subsequently, he was used as a representative of the Admiralty's staff in the Grand Headquarters . On August 16, 1918, Bülow was appointed Deputy Chief of the Admiralty's Staff of the Navy, and in this position he was promoted to Rear Admiral on October 9, 1918. As such, after the end of the war from December 9, 1918 until his replacement, he was also responsible for the management of the Chief of the Admiralty's Staff of the Navy. In addition, he also acted from November 23 to December 8, 1918 and from January 3 to March 6, 1919 as head of the naval group of the German Peace Commission. After this activity he was made available to the State Secretary or Head of the Reichsmarinamt and removed from active service on November 22, 1919.

Not Friedrich von Bülow (as you can often read), but frigate captain dR Freiherr Georg von Bülow founded the Marine-Officer-Aid (MOH) in 1918 , a self-help organization for the naval officers who were dismissed in large numbers at the end of the war.

Awards

• Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with the crown
• Order of the Crown II class with swords
• Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords
• Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
• Prussian service award cross
• Officer's Cross of the Bavarian Order of Military Merit
• Officer's Cross of the Order of Henry the Lion
• Hanseatic Cross Hamburg
• Commander II class of the Hessian Philipps Order
• Knight's Cross of the Order of the Griffin
• Cross for distinction in war
• Honorary Officer Cross of the Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig
• Commander II. Class of the Albrecht Order with swords
• Commander of the Order of the Württemberg Crown

Identical names

During his lifetime there was another German naval officer of the same name. Friedrich Freiherr von Bülow (born January 29, 1870 in Aurich as the son of Karl Frhr. V. Bülow , † April 8, 1916 in Wilhelmshaven) was last sea captain. From August 17, 1914 to December 31, 1915, he was in command of the small cruiser SMS Berlin .

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 1: A-G. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1988, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 , pp. 186-187.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Rudolf Huber : German constitutional history since 1789 . W. Kolhhammer, Stuttgart 1975, p. 272.
2. ↑ Erich Raeder : My life. Publisher Fritz Schlichtenmayer. Tübingen 1956. p. 179.
3. ^ Heinrich Walle : The MOV, a community of values ​​and interests since 1918. German Maritime Institute, accessed on October 21, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy for the year 1918. Ed .: Marine-Kabinett. Mittler & Sohn publishing house. Berlin 1918. p. 9.