Friedrich von Baudissin

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Restitution gravestone for Friedrich and Edith von Baudissin at the Invalidenfriedhof Berlin (status 2013)

Friedrich "Fritz" Aimé Clothar Hugo Graf von Baudissin (born April 3, 1852 at Gut Schierensee ; † February 5, 1921 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German admiral and wing adjutant to Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Life

origin

Friedrich belonged to the noble family Baudissin , who originally came from Upper Lusatia and came to Schleswig-Holstein during the Thirty Years' War . He was the son of the post director Wolf Friedrich Ottomar von Baudissin (1812-1887) and his first wife Théonie, born von Mesmer-Saldern (1817-1855).

Military career

Baudissin joined the Prussian Navy on April 15, 1867 . After his basic and ship training on the sailing frigates Gefion and Niobe , he was appointed sea ​​cadet on August 1, 1868 . As such, he was on duty on the schooner Hela , again on the Gefion and on the covered corvette Arcona . Subsequently, Baudissin was transferred to the Gedeckte Korvette Hertha on August 1, 1869 , and was promoted to lieutenant at sea on August 19, 1871 .

From December 12, 1872 to April 14, 1873 he was a member of the II. Sailor Division and then spent a year at the naval school. Then Baudissin came to the Aviso Loreley as a watch officer . He was briefly in the same position in February and March 1875 on the tank frigate Kaiser and was promoted to lieutenant on March 16 there . In the years to come, she was employed on board the Aviso Loreley as first officer and as an officer on watch on the sailing frigate Niobe and the smooth-deck corvette Augusta . From November 2, 1878 to May 4, 1879, Baudissin graduated from the Naval Academy with the I. Coetus, was briefly used as a navigation officer on the armored frigate Friedrich Carl and then continued his training with the II. And III. Coetus gone. As a lieutenant captain (since April 15, 1880), Baudissin then joined the staff of the North Sea naval station as 2nd adjutant for three years . At the same time he was used at times as the commander of the Aviso Falke and Pommerania . On April 18, 1884, he emigrated to the South Seas on the steamship Taormina to initially work as first officer on the station ship Albatross , then from November 20, 1885 as commander. With the cruiser he took part in battles in the Bismarck Archipelago in order to support the interests of the New Guinea company operating there .

After 1891 it was increasingly used in the Reichsmarineamt . As a lieutenant commander and commander of the gunboat Iltis he provided in 1894 in the Pacific region, especially in the German island colonies , station service at the East Asia Squadron , such as the end of July 1894 in Chemulpo in Korea .

On December 11, 1898, as captain at sea (from November 20, 1893), he became the commandant of the Hohenzollern , the yacht of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He held this command until August 16, 1902. At the same time, on July 16, 1899, he was appointed adjutant wing of the Kaiser and promoted to rear admiral on June 22, 1901 . On November 19, 1902, he became the commandant of the protected cruiser Hansa and thus at the same time as a representative of Vice Admiral Richard von Geissler 2nd Admiral of the East Asia Squadron. In November 1902 and March 1903 the Hansa sailed the Yangtze to Nanjing and visited Japan in April 1903 , where Baudissin had an audience with Tennō Mutsuhito and then represented the German Empire at the fleet revue in Kobe . In July 1903 he was back in Korea with the Hansa . On October 20, 1903, Count von Baudissin took down his flag and was replaced on November 22 by Captain Henning von Holtzendorff .

This was followed on April 12, 1904 by his appointment as inspector of the I. Marine Inspection Ostsee in Kiel . In the same year he was then commander of the 1st Squadron of the High Seas Fleet and in this function was promoted to Vice Admiral on January 27, 1905 .

After a commanding service to the Emperor in 1907 and another commanding to service the Naval Staff of the Navy, he was on 27 January 1908. Admiral promoted and at the same time as the successor to Admiral Wilhelm Büchsel appointed Chief of Naval Staff. He held this office from January 29, 1908 to September 5, 1909. He was succeeded by Admiral Max von Fischel . He himself then took over from September 6, 1909 to April 12, 1913 the post of chief of the North Sea naval station based in Wilhelmshaven . In this function, his name is also closely linked to the development of Wilhelmshaven , for example through the construction of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Kunsthalle, which opened in 1913, and the associated association of art lovers for Wilhelmshaven. He was made an honorary citizen of the town of Rüstringen , which today belongs to Wilhelmshaven .

After completion of this activity, he was placed at the disposal and at the same time à la suite of the naval officer corps. For his services he was awarded the Order of the Black Eagle , the highest order in the Kingdom of Prussia , on March 4, 1912 . The Baudissin Glacier on the Antarctic island of Heard is named in his honor.

His grave is in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin-Mitte . and was marked with a restitution stone after 1989 .

family

Baudissin had married Edith Kinderling (1858-1934) on February 7, 1879 in Kiel. She was the daughter of the German Vice Admiral Franz Kinderling (1820–1895). The marriage resulted in the son Wolf (* 1882) and the daughter Asta (* 1888).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans-Alexander Kneider: Germans in Korea prior to 1910 (military and nobility)
  2. ↑ Wilhelmshaven Art Gallery
  3. ↑ German Naval Archives
  4. ^ Förderverein Invalidenfriedhof eV
  5. ↑ The history of Berlin. Cemeteries ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diegeschichteberlins.de
personal data
SURNAME Baudissin, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baudissin, Friedrich Aimé Clothar Hugo Graf von (full name); Baudissin, Fritz Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German admiral
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Schierensee
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1921
Place of death Berlin-Charlottenburg