Friedrich von Hollmann

Admiral Friedrich von Hollmann

Friedrich Hollmann , from 1905 by Hollmann (born January 19, 1842 in Berlin ; † January 21, 1913 there ), was a German admiral and state secretary of the Reichsmarineamt under Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Life

Hollmann entered the Prussian Navy as a cadet aspirant on June 18, 1857 and made his first trips as a midshipman on board the SMS Amazone , SMS Gefion and SMS Thetis . Between 1859 and 1862 he took part in the expedition to East Asia and in 1863 became an ensign at sea .

In 1863 he became an officer in the Central Department of the Admiralty. In the German-Danish War of 1864 Hollmann commanded the gunboat SMS Wolf and was then a lieutenant at sea for three years on board the cadet training ship SMS Niobe . From 1867 to 1869 he was assigned to the naval school in Kiel .

In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, Hollmann took part in the battle near Hiddensee as a lieutenant captain . From 1871 to 1873 he was first officer on board the SMS Gazelle on a training voyage to North and South America . Between 1874 and 1881 he was head of the Central Department of the Imperial Admiralty on the Admiralty's staff . From 1876 to 1878 he commanded the school ships SMS Undine and SMS Medusa . As sea captain , he led the midshipman SMS Elisabeth on its circumnavigation from 1881 to 1883 . In 1886/87 he was President of the Ship Inspection Commission and in the following two years head of the Admiralty's staff. Appointed rear admiral , Hollmann commanded the training squadron from 1889 to 1890, which led the German imperial couple to Greece and Turkey .

On April 22, 1890 Hollmann was appointed State Secretary of the Reichsmarinamt and a member of the Federal Council. In the same year he was promoted to vice admiral and finally to admiral in 1896. Since he 1897 the much desired increases in the budget could not prevail for the Navy, he was ousted in April 1897 from his post, from 15 June 1897 to disposition while à la suite made of Seeoffizierkorps. He was succeeded by Alfred Tirpitz .

In 1904 Hollmann was appointed a member of the Prussian manor house . On January 27, 1905, he was accepted into the Order of the Black Eagle and thus raised to hereditary nobility. In 1906 von Hollmann became chairman of the Motorluftschiff-Studiengesellschaft mbH and its successor, the Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft mbH , which were involved in the construction, development and sale of airships, also for the navy.

He is one of the founders of the German Fleet Association .

After leaving the military, von Hollmann was a member of the supervisory board of AEG , later its chairman.

Hollmann was one of the founding members of the German Orient Society in 1898 and was most recently its chairman.

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 Publishing House. Osnabrück 1988. ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 . Pp. 135-136.
Olaf Matthes, Friedrich von Hollmann's importance for the German Orient Society, in: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 131, 1999, pp. 191-208.

Individual evidence

↑ The rank is comparable to a present day lieutenant at sea. On May 20, 1864, the rank was changed to Unterleutnant zur See , and on January 1, 1900, it was changed to Lieutenant zur See , which is still in use today. (cf. Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: Schiffsbiographien von Preußischer Adler bis Ulan. Mundus Verlag. Ratingen o. JS 101. ( The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . Vol . 7)).

↑ According to the ranking of 1864, the lieutenant at sea stood above the sub-lieutenant at sea. On January 1, 1900, the rank was changed to Oberleutnant zur See (cf. Hildebrand, Röhr, Steinmetz. P. 101.)

personal data
SURNAME	Hollmann, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hollmann, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German admiral and State Secretary of the Reichsmarineamt under Kaiser Wilhelm II.
DATE OF BIRTH	January 19, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	January 21, 1913
Place of death	Berlin

[1] The rank is comparable to a present day lieutenant at sea. On May 20, 1864, the rank was changed to Unterleutnant zur See , and on January 1, 1900, it was changed to Lieutenant zur See , which is still in use today. (cf. Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: Schiffsbiographien von Preußischer Adler bis Ulan. Mundus Verlag. Ratingen o. JS 101. ( The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . Vol . 7)).

[2] According to the ranking of 1864, the lieutenant at sea stood above the sub-lieutenant at sea. On January 1, 1900, the rank was changed to Oberleutnant zur See (cf. Hildebrand, Röhr, Steinmetz. P. 101.)