Georg von Schleinitz

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Georg Emil Gustav Freiherr von Schleinitz (born June 17, 1834 in Bromberg ; † December 12, 1910 at Gut Hohenborn near Lügde ) was a German vice admiral .

Life

origin

Georg was the son of the Upper President of the Province of Silesia Johann Eduard von Schleinitz (1798–1869) and his first wife Johanna, née von Hippel (1804–1850). His older sister Marie (* 1830) was married to the Prussian Lieutenant General Adalbert von Schleinitz (1822-1896).

Career

Schleinitz joined the Prussian Navy in 1845 at the age of eleven . In 1856 he took part in the battle of Tres Forcas against the Rifpiraten . In 1858 he became a lieutenant at sea . As the flag lieutenant of the squadron chief Sundevall , he took part in the Prussian expedition to China , Japan and Siam between 1860 and 1862 and in 1864 he was commanded as first officer on the covered corvette Arcona . Soon afterwards he went to the Navy Ministry as a department head and adjutant .

In March 1869 Schleinitz became corvette captain and undertook a trip to the Mediterranean as commander of the Arcona to accompany the Crown Prince of Prussia at the opening of the Suez Canal . He then went to the Azores , the West Indies and North and South America . From 1871 he worked again as a department head in the Ministry of the Navy and in the admiralty newly created in 1872 . In the summer of 1874 he became a sea ​​captain and was given command of the covered corvette Gazelle , with which he set out on a trip around the world . The main goal of this trip was the observation of the passage of Venus in December 1874 on the Kerguelen Islands as well as measurements and other research in the area of ​​the later so-called Bismarck Archipelago .

After his return in 1876 Schleinitz became head of the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty and a member of the General Directory of Surveys in the Prussian State. In 1881 he was made permanent assessor of the Imperial Upper Sea Office . He was also a member of the German polar commission. In 1883 he became an honorary member of the Geography Association in Leipzig.

1883 Schleinitz was appointed Rear Admiral promoted and took 1886 award of the character as Vice Admiral his departure from the Navy. From June 10, 1886 to March 1, 1888 he was in the service of the German New Guinea Company , which appointed him the first governor in their "protected area", the later German colony of German New Guinea . Here he was the first European to bring workers from the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago to New Guinea . He had scientific expeditions equipped, including to explore the Sepik River .

After his wife Margot died of malaria in 1887 at the age of forty , he had to return to Germany in 1888 out of consideration for his poor health, where he lived on his Hohenborn estate near Bad Pyrmont . On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the University of Greifswald , Schleinitz received the honorary doctorate of a Dr. on August 3, 1906 for his great services to the exploration of the sea as commander of the Gazelle. phil. awarded.

Schleinitz died on December 12, 1910 at Gut Hohenborn. His tombstone in the Lügde cemetery bears a large ship anchor.

He was an honorary member of the Thuringian-Saxon Association for Geography. The Schleinitz Mountains on the island of Neumecklenburg were named after him.

family

Schleinitz married Klara Rieger (1834–1870) in Breslau on October 18, 1865. After her death on July 19, 1871, he married Margot von Hippel (1846–1887). When she too died, he married Marie von Beulwitz (* 1863) in Breslau on November 27, 1888. The marriages resulted in the following children:

  • Johanna (* 1866), canoness in Mosigkau
  • Hugold (1868–1914), Prussian major ⚭ 1898 Juliane von Lehsten (* 1881)
  • Hans (* 1873), Prussian captain
  • Eleanor (* 1880)
  • Ursula (* 1891)
  • Dietrich (* 1892)
  • Georg Ulrich (* 1894)
  • Joachim (* 1895)

Fonts

  • Comparative considerations about the battles of Bellealliance and Königgrätz in strategic and tactical relation. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1876.
  • The research trip SMS “Gazelle” in the years 1874 to 1876 under the command of the Captain of the Sea Baron von Schleinitz. 5 parts, Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1888–1890. ( online )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Administration by the New Guinea Company (1885-1899)
  2. ^ Directory of the members of the Thuringian-Saxon Geography Association on March 31, 1885 ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1916. Tenth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1915, p. 405.
  4. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobeligen houses. 1901. Second year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1900, p. 76.
  5. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses. The nobility born in Germany (primeval nobility). 1910. Eleventh year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1909, p. 466.
personal data
SURNAME Schleinitz, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schleinitz, Georg Emil Gustav Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Vice Admiral
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1910
Place of death Lie