Heinrich Kühne (Admiral)
Ludwig Heinrich Kühne (born May 18, 1838 in Merseburg , † October 10, 1926 in Lübeck ) was a German naval officer , most recently vice admiral .
Life
Kühne joined the Prussian Navy as a cadet aspirant on June 24, 1854 . First he was trained on the sailing corvette SMS Amazone and the training ship SMS Mercur , before he came to the Naval Cadet Institute on November 15, 1854 after his appointment as a volunteer cadet.
As a midshipman , he took part in the battle against the Rif pirates at Cap Tres Forcas on August 7, 1856 on the steam corvette SMS Danzig under the command of Prince Adalbert . Promoted to ensign at sea on October 8, 1859 , he took part in the first expedition of the East Asia Squadron to Japan on board the corvette SMS Arcona under the command of Count Eulenburg and returned home in 1862 as a second class lieutenant .
From 1864 to 1866 he was in command of the gunboat SMS Delphin . Here he was promoted to lieutenant captain in 1865 . On January 23, 1871, he was promoted to corvette captain . With the corvette SMS Ariadne he fought against piracy in Chinese waters from 1874 to 1876 . In 1876 he was promoted to sea captain. In the training squadron he was in command of SMS König Wilhelm in the summer of 1878 and SMS Prussia in 1880 and 1881 . From October 18, 1881 until his departure on February 17, 1885, Kühne, who in the meantime had been promoted to Rear Admiral on December 27, 1883 , was chief shipyard director of the Kaiserliche Werft Kiel .
In retirement he moved to Lübeck . Here he worked as chairman in various patriotic associations such as the naval association and the German naval association . He joined the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . In 1895 he was elected for the first time as a member of the Central Committee in preparation for the Sedan celebrations in Lübeck. He paid particular attention to the promotion and further development of Lübeck's medical columns . In December 1901, for example, he gave his lecture on the Red Cross and its nature and work at the non-profit organization . The Lübeckische Blätter published this lecture in their issues no. 5, 6 and 7 in their section Reichsangelektiven, section military, in the following year.
The competence of the column and its development was publicly demonstrated every year with the support of the local regiment with a medical column exercise . A support frame he developed was used as a support frame for the so-called Lübeck system in hospital trains and ships during the First World War .
He also joined the Geographical Society , which belonged to the non-profit organization . Here he knew how to inspire at one of the regularly held men's evenings in 1894 with a lecture about his experiences on the Ariadne off the coast of China. In March 1895 he gave a lecture about his travel experiences on the first Prussian expedition to Japan .
In January 1896 he appeared for the first time at the regular German Evenings of the Society with a lecture on the events in the Transvaal with disrespectful mention of the British reporting of a certain Churchill . Furthermore, in connection with the evening he took an active part in the upcoming Lübeck celebration of the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the German Empire . He headed this for the first time in 1898. After the on October 26, 1900, the 100th birthday of Lübeck's honorary citizen v. Moltke , who gave a celebratory speech that met with positive reactions across the region, he was appointed a member of the executive committee . On January 16, 1898 he was elected to the parish council of St. Aegidien .
After his many years of service within the association, the Moltke festival speech was the decisive factor for the Lübeck Warrior Association to appoint him as its honorary chairman. At the celebratory event that took place in Israelsdorf in 1901 on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, he gave the celebratory speech. In 1898 he gave a lecture on Uhehe in German South West Africa in the German Colonial Society , Lübeck department , and was appointed to its board in November. He was also responsible for the conference of the German Colonial Society that took place in Lübeck from June 5th to 8th, 1901. The Lübeck department had its general meeting on November 20, 1907 in the premises of the non-profit organization. Its board of directors included Admiral Kühne as first chairman, major general Paul Stern as second chairman, Johann Martin Andreas Neumann , Georg Reimpell, senior pastor Lindenberg, Heinrich Gaerderz, Christian Reuter , major Adolf von Tiedemann , Hermann Eschenburg and Carl Dimpker .
The news that he was a good speaker and knew how to impress with his extensive historical knowledge reached as far as southern Germany. Here he was soon hailed "as the real, right-wing representative of the idea of strengthening German naval power".
In recognition of his services, he was awarded the character of Vice Admiral on September 10, 1904 .
All the associations of the National Warrior Association followed on the afternoon of January 17, 1915 from the market in the Schutzmannkapelle to the courtyard of the old barracks for the flag consecration of the Jungwehr . Under the leadership of Police Major Moritz Grünweller, the youth companies were positioned to the left and right of a lectern . The youth armed forces, which formed in Lübeck as in the whole of the German Empire immediately after the outbreak of war, served as a voluntary organization under the leadership of old soldiers and energetic men to provide military training for young people . Behind the speaker's pulpit, the national war clubs gathered with their flags. As honorary chairman of the association, the chairman of the printing house owner and publisher of the Lübeck association Julius Heise, the deputy colonel v. Kuenheim, Mayor Johann Hermann Eschenburg , Senate and City Council members, other guests of honor and a large crowd. The ceremonial handover of the flag donated by the National Warrior Association began with the Dutch prayer of thanks before Pastor Wilhelm Mildenstein stepped onto the desk and gave a speech that went from the Wars of Liberation of 1813 about the Franco-German War to the current war. After a chorale Julius Heise conveyed the greetings of the country Warriors Association, members of the youth military was the youngest comrades and brought an enthusiastic recorded " high " to the emperor from. The imperial anthem was sung. The colonel thereupon presented those who had stepped forward, who had been chosen as standard-bearers, the flag in Luebsche colors, bearing an eagle. They thanked them with the vow that they should be an incentive for all members to fulfill their duties as faithfully as possible. After the National Warrior Association in the person of the secretary , painter Wilhelm Siems, and the scout corps affiliated to the Boy Scout Association in the person of the main field master , teacher Wilhelm Groth, each decorated the flag with a flag nail, the ceremony ended with the singing of the Germany song . After the mayor, colonel and police major had paced the front of the clubs, the National Warrior Association and all the companies of the youth armed forces went to the market to the sounds of the protection team band. There the band gave concerts while collecting for the prisoners of war from Lübeck .
During the First World War , he promoted the collection for the good of the Navy and the distribution of the collected gifts to the naval parts on the Belgian coast.
In 1918, the oldest sea officer at the time celebrated his 80th birthday. In his house, which that day was decorated with flags as if for a victory celebration, many telegrams came in that day. So who congratulated emperor very graciously , State Secretary of the Navy Office of Capelle , head of the naval base of the Baltic Holtzendorff or Admiral Bachmann , to name only the best known. The Lübeck Senate awarded him the Lübeck Hanseatic Cross , which was given to him by Mayor Dr. Fehling was personally presented with the letter.
On June 24, 1924, the aged admiral celebrated his 70th military anniversary. How much his spiritual freshness allowed him to take an active part in the fortunes of his fatherland and the beloved navy at that time was shown, among other things, by the fact that the 86-year-old jubilee did not let himself be deterred by his old age, the cruiser Hamburg and the torpedo boat flotilla , who were anchored shortly before in Lübeck to visit personally. Shortly before his death, Kühne performed at a veterans' party in the Hindenburghaus in Lübeck . The funeral service took place on October 14, 1926 in the Lübeck Aegidienkirche . From there he was transferred to the crematorium. The urn was buried in the Burgtorfriedhof (area: Neuer , grave: 19-II). Today this position has long been re-occupied.
Awards
- Chinese Order of Dragons
- Order of the Red Eagle, second class, with oak leaves
- Order of the Crown, second class
- War memorials
- Red Cross Medal
- Several higher foreign orders
- Lübeck Hanseatic Cross
Works
- Speech on Moltke's 100th birthday
- The Red Cross its essence and work - held on December 15, 1901
- The education of the natives to work, the main obstacle to the useful development of our colony - held on the German Evening on December 10, 1902
literature
- Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945 Volume 2: HO. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1989, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 , pp. 325–326.
- Lübeck sheets ; various issues from 1894 to 1913
- Vice Admiral ret. D. Heinrich Kühne †. In: Lübeck advertisements . No. 237 of October 11, 1926.
- Your Excellency Vice Admiral ret. D. Heinrich Kühne †. Father Urban Leaves. No. 2, Lübeck, October 17, 1926.
- Vice Admiral ret. D. Kühne City Papers. No. 20, Lübeck, May 26, 1918.
- Medical column exercise on the Palinger Heide. Father Urban Leaves. No. 31, Lübeck, July 28, 1907.
- Admiral a. D. Heinr. Bold. Father Urban Leaves. No. 27, Lübeck, July 3, 1904.
- Lübeck leaves . Volume 46, No. 26, June 26, 1904, section: Local Notes
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Medical column exercise on the Palinger Heide In: Vaterstädtische Blätter. July 28, 1907.
- ↑ What the Lübeck newspapers proudly emphasized.
- ^ German Colonial Society, Lübeck Department. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 49, number 49, edition of December 8, 1907, p. 699.
- ↑ Your Excellency Vice Admiral ret. D. Heinrich Kühne †. In: Father-city sheets. No. 2, Lübeck, October 17, 1926.
- ↑ Rear Admiral a. D. Heinr. Bold. In: Father-city sheets. No. 27, Lübeck, July 3, 1904.
- ↑ Julius Heise (ed.): Between home and front. War journeys with gifts of love from the Lübeck State Warrior Association. Lübeck Vlg Landeskrieger-Verband, Lübeck 1916.
- ↑ Consecration of the flags of the youth armed forces , year 1914/15, No. 17, edition of January 24, 1915, p. 71.
- ↑ From Lübeck's Towers. Vol. 28, No. 12, June 1, 1918.
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↑ That of Mayor Dr. Fehling's letter had the following content:
"Having lived in our old city, which has become your second home, for 33 years now, you have earned the respect and admiration of broad circles of our population to a seldom high degree through your exemplary, never-failing willingness to participate in numerous charitable endeavors."
- printed in Von Lübeck's Towers. Vol. 28, No. 12, June 1, 1918 - ↑ Vice-Admiral a. D. Kuehne. In: Father-city sheets. No. 20, Lübeck, May 26, 1918.
- ↑ Vice-Admiral a. D. Heinrich Kuehne. In: Father-city sheets. No. 19, Lübeck, June 15, 1924.
- ↑ From Lübeck's Towers. Vol. 34, No. 19, June 21, 1924.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kühne, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German naval officer, most recently vice admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merseburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1926 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |