Harry ward
Harry Mündel (born August 31, 1876 in Stettin , † April 27, 1946 in Hamburg ) was a German naval officer , most recently Rear Admiral of the Reichsmarine .
Life
After joining on April 2, 1895 in the Imperial Navy ward received a one-year basic training before the midshipmen transported was. After a further two years of training, he received an officer license as a sub-lieutenant in 1898 .
After various commands on land and at sea, he was promoted to lieutenant at sea on March 23, 1901 while serving as an officer on watch on the survey ship SMS Hyäne . At the end of September 1901 he emigrated to Douala in the German Cameroon colony and was a watch officer on the gunboat SMS Wolf deployed there in the station service . At the beginning of November 1902 Mündel was ordered back home and assigned to the IV. Sailor Artillery Department as a company officer. From October 1, 1904, he worked for a year in the nautical department of the Reichsmarinamt , was then transferred to the master of the survey ship SMS Planet and appointed first officer on November 16, 1905 when the ship was commissioned . With the ship he carried out survey trips in the Bismarck Archipelago and was promoted to lieutenant captain on April 1, 1906 . After his return, Mündel had various ship commands and from October 1, 1909 he acted as field major and adjutant to the commandant of the fortifications of Cuxhaven . At the end of 1912 he was promoted to Korvettenkapitän and from April 1913 traveled as a transport leader on the steamer Gneisenau to Sydney . There he returned to the planet as its commander . For his achievements he had been awarded the Order of the Red Eagle and the Order of the Crown, IV class, up to this point .
On his way home from Simpsonhafen , Wündel was held in Tsingtao . With the outbreak of the First World War , he moved to the staff of the commander of the sea front. In early November he was given command of the SMS Jaguar gunboat . When the surrender at the siege of Tsingtau could not be averted, the Jaguar was the last ship to be blown up.
As a prisoner of war, Mündel was first transferred to the Osaka camp and from 1917 to the Ninoshima camp. While in captivity he was given the character of a frigate captain on November 29, 1919 . After his release in December 1919, he received the corresponding patent after completing his journey home. He was initially made available to the chief of the naval station of the Baltic Sea and then commanded from March 26 to May 30, 1920 to liquidate the Admiralty 's staff to the Admiralty . Mündel was then deputy head of the Admiralty's office in Hamburg for a few months until mid-October 1920 and has since been promoted to captain at sea .
This was followed by his takeover in the Reichsmarine, where he worked as an inspector of the Coastal District Office III until the end of September 1921. At the same time he acted as port captain of Kiel. Subsequently, Mündel was transferred to Lübeck and became head of the naval command there. Mündel was released from this post on March 20, 1923, placed at the disposal of the chief of the naval station of the Baltic Sea and removed from active service on April 30, 1923 under the status of Rear Admiral.
On May 4, 1927, the “new” Jaguar was christened by Mündel at the naval shipyard in Wilhelmshaven .
In the Skagerrak Society in Lübeck, an association of former active and inactive naval officers, he was deputy chairman behind Rear Admiral Titus Türk .
In 1938 Mündel left Lübeck and moved to the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , where he died in 1946.
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 2: HO. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1989. ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 . Pp. 524-525.
- Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
Remarks
- ↑ The name changed on January 1, 1899 to lieutenant in the sea
- ^ Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy for 1914. Ed .: Marinekabinett . Ernst Siegfried Mittler and son. Berlin 1914. p. 124.
- ↑ Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present. Paperback edition Mundus Verlag. (around 1997) Volume 5, p. 225.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ward, Harry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German naval officer, most recently rear admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1946 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |