Hermann Bauer (Admiral)

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Hermann Bauer (born July 22, 1875 in Königsberg , † February 11, 1958 in Essen ) was a German naval officer , most recently an admiral .

Life

Bauer joined the Imperial Navy as a cadet on April 9, 1892 . He completed his basic training on the cruiser frigate SMS Stosch , was at the naval school from September 20, 1892 to April 4, 1893 and then continued his training on the training ship SMS Moltke and the large cruiser SMS Deutschland . From November 1, 1894 to September 30, 1895, Bauer was once again at the naval school and was promoted to lieutenant at sea on September 15, 1895 . He then served on the ironclad SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm until September 30, 1897 . At the beginning of December 1897, Bauer embarked on the journey to Kiautschou on the steamer Prussia , in order to be used as an officer on watch on the small cruiser SMS Princess Wilhelm stationed there . In the meantime he had become a lieutenant at sea on April 12, 1898 . The necessary renaming to Oberleutnant zur See took place on January 1, 1899. After he returned home by ship on July 22, 1899, he was transferred to the torpedo training ship SMS Blücher as an officer on watch . From October 1, 1900 to September 30, 1903, he subsequently acted as a company officer, watch officer, first officer and commander of the II torpedo division. Bauer then completed the I. and II. Coetus at the Marine Academy in Kiel by June 30, 1905 and was promoted to lieutenant captain on April 1, 1904 . He then served again for more than a year with the II Torpedo Department, was at the same time in command of the torpedo division boat SMS D 9 and as flag lieutenant of the II torpedo boat flotilla and as flag lieutenant and commander of the torpedo boat SMS S 125 of the maneuver fleet. From October 1, 1906 to September 30, 1908, Bauer was part of the shipyard department in the Reichsmarineamt . He was then transferred as a navigation officer to the large cruiser SMS Gneisenau and was promoted to the corvette captain there on October 16, 1909. Bauer was then first officer on board the liner SMS Schlesien for a year . For two and a half years he was employed as an adjutant at the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven and from November 9, 1913 to March 13, 1914, Bauer commanded the small cruiser SMS Hamburg . He was then transferred to the submarine weapon and was chief of the submarine flotilla and the 1st submarine flotilla.

During the First World War , Bauer acted as commander of the submarines until June 4, 1917 and as such became a frigate captain on April 16, 1915 . On July 24, 1917, he was appointed commander of the large liner SMS Westfalen and on October 14, 1917, he was promoted to captain at sea . After Bauer had given up command on August 5, 1918, he took over the large-line ship SMS Kaiser and, shortly before the end of the war, the large-line ships SMS Oldenburg and SMS Nassau at the same time .

From December 21, 1918 to March 31, 1919 he was commander of the II. Torpedo Division and then came to the Reich and Marine shipyards in Wilhelmshaven . First he was used as equipment director, from October 3, 1919 as senior shipyard director and as such promoted to rear admiral on April 1, 1922 . From June 6th to September 30th, 1923 Bauer was chief of the General Naval Office in the naval management . On October 1, 1923, he was appointed chief of the North Sea Naval Station and in this position he was promoted to Vice Admiral on February 1, 1925 . Bauer was placed at the disposal of the chief of naval command on October 5, 1928 and retired on November 30, 1928 while being promoted to admiral.

Bauer was made available to the Navy on July 25, 1939 , but he was not drawn into active military service.

The former Grand Admiral and last Reich President of the Third Reich, Karl Dönitz , gave a funeral oration at his funeral.

Awards

Works

  • As leader of the submarines in World War II. Koehler & Amelang Verlag, Leipzig 1942.
  • Reich leadership and submarine deployment from 1914 to 1918. Klosterhaus Verlag, Lippoldsberg 1956.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (ed.): Germany's generals and admirals. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Part 1: Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849–1945. Volume 1: A – G (Ackermann to Gygas). Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1988, ISBN 3-7648-2480-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Dönitz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1958, pp. 64 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy , Ed .: Marinekabinett , Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1918, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, most recently admiral
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1958
Place of death eat