Harry von Posadowsky-Wehner

Harry Graf von Posadowsky-Wehner (born August 17, 1869 in Neumark , † November 5, 1923 in Kassel ) was a German naval officer , most recently rear admiral and naval attaché .

Life

family

He was the son of Count Adolf Friedrich Edwin von Posadowsky-Wehner (1834-1919) and Helene Nehring called von Szerdahelyi (1841-1889). Posadowski married Erika Natalie Elisabeth Bertha von Witzleben-Normann (* 1880 in Weimar) on February 17, 1900. His children were the German ambassador Harald von Posadowsky-Wehner (1910–1990) and Kurt Friedrich Edwin Arthur Herrmann von Posadowsky-Wehner, b. 1903 in Berlin.

Military career

Posadowsky-Wehner joined the Imperial Navy as a cadet on April 15, 1887 . In this he was regularly promoted and from 1906 held various ship commands and from then on belonged to the so-called ship acceptance commission , ie he briefed ships that came new from the shipyards and were then subjected to a rigorous operational suitability test. Among other things, he commanded the gunboat SMS Jaguar in China from 1906 to 1908 and then until 1909 the small cruiser SMS Dresden .

In 1911, Posadowsky-Wehner, now a sea captain , was sent to the German embassy in Vienna as a naval attaché , where he was entrusted with maintaining the marine political relations between the two monarchies until December 2, 1912. Then he was available the Chief of the Naval Station of the North Sea and eventually to the 7 June 1913 disposition made.

With the outbreak of the First World War , Posadowsky-Wehner was used again as a ZD officer and appointed head of the Wannsee assembly point of the Voluntary Motorboat Corps. Within the corps he was from October 1914 to June 1917 commander of the Vistula - Flotilla . Subsequently placed at the disposal of the chief of the naval station of the Baltic Sea until July 31, 1917, he then acted as director of the naval engineering and deck officers school until April 26, 1918. From April 1918 until the end of the war he was finally made available to the "Eichhorn" Army Group in the Black Sea region .

On January 31, 1919 Posadowsky-Wehner left the Navy and was awarded the character of Rear Admiral on October 17, 1919 with seniority from January 24, 1919 .

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 3: P-Z. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1700-3 . Pp. 58-59.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses 1876, p.663