Hermann Jacobsen (Admiral)

Hermann Jacobsen (born April 23, 1859 in Rendsburg , † November 14, 1943 in Darmstadt ) was a German admiral . From 1900 to 1902 he was head of the news office in the Reichsmarineamt .

Life

After attending primary school in 1875, Hermann Jacobsen joined the Imperial Navy . From October 1, 1875 to April 30, 1876, he completed basic training at the Mürwik Naval School . After a long period on board, he returned to the naval school in 1878 and completed basic training on April 14, 1880. After graduation, he was assigned to the SMS Sachsen tank corvette for three weeks in the same year . After several other on-board missions, he was employed as an adjutant in the naval inspection for ship artillery from 1891 . These activities ended in 1893 and from 1897 he was called in to various services at the High Command of the Navy. He then traveled to San Francisco from November 6th to December 31st, 1899 for an assignment abroad .

After returning to Germany in 1900, Hermann Jacobsen was assigned to the Reichsmarineamt in Berlin. Here he was first deployed as a lieutenant commander in the military department and from October 1, 1900, he took over the position of board member in the news office (N). His predecessor was August von Heeringen . The main goal of this institution was to implement the enacted naval laws and the establishment of the imperial navy, to promote the organization of intensive propaganda work in order to steer the previous main line of vision from the imperial army to the navy. However, with the entry into force of the 2nd Fleet Act on July 1, 1900, the news office (N) was already above the peak of its activity since its foundation in 1897. At the time Jacobsen took over the board post, the staffing of the news office was 3 officers and a few auxiliary staff lowered. The greatest expenditures were made by the reading service that had been set up, which concerned the viewing of published publications by 163 newspaper and magazine publishers as well as other news agencies. The marine-related results of this information research were passed on in the form of short messages, bulletins and summaries in written form to newspaper publishers, journalists and press offices of companies, but occasionally only to Reich ministries. This was difficult because within the ministries, the authority for press releases was held by the Federal Foreign Office during this period. But by the time Jacobson was deployed, the news agency had already started issuing its own publications, maritime literature and its own magazine. That was the " Nauticus - Yearbook for Germany's Sea Interests", which was still hesitant in 1899 and then regularly compiled, printed and distributed from the 1900 year onwards. In the meantime he worked for a month with the staff of the training fleet.

After the obligatory term of office in the intelligence office of the Reichsmarineamte, Hermann Jacobsen changed on April 1, 1902 as commander of the great cruiser SMS Freya . He was succeeded in the news office by Lieutenant Captain Arnold Marks. Jacobsen's highest rank at the time of his discharge from the Navy was an admiral.

Hermann Jacobson died on November 14, 1943 in Darmstadt.

literature

Wilhelm Deist, Fleet Policy and Fleet Propaganda, Stuttgart 1976
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 Verlag. Osnabrück 1988. ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 . P. 170f.
Marcus König, agitation-censorship-propaganda. The submarine war and the German public in World War I, ibidem Verlag Munich, 2014
Ranking lists of the Imperial Navy, Verlag Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, Kiel University Bookstore (born 1895 to 1905)

Individual evidence

↑ 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 Verlag. Osnabrück 1988. ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 . P. 170f.
↑ Ranking lists of the Imperial Navy, Verlag Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, Kiel University Bookstore (years 1895 to 1905)
↑ Marcus König, Agitation-Censorship-Propaganda. The submarine war and the German public in World War I, ibidem Verlag München, 2014, p. 46 ff. And cf. Wilhelm Deist, Flottenpolitik und Flottenpropaganda, Stuttgart 1976, SA. 81ff.
↑ Hans Hildebrand, Formation History and Staffing of the German Armed Forces 1815–1990, Volume 2 (Marine) Biblio Verlag Osnabrück, 2000
↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Deutschlands Admirale 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 2: HO, Biblio Verlag. Osnabrück 1988. ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 . P. 170f.

personal data
SURNAME	Jacobsen, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German admiral
DATE OF BIRTH	April 23, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rendsburg
DATE OF DEATH	November 14, 1943
Place of death	Darmstadt

[1] 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 Verlag. Osnabrück 1988. ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 . P. 170f.

[2] Ranking lists of the Imperial Navy, Verlag Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, Kiel University Bookstore (years 1895 to 1905)

[3] Marcus König, Agitation-Censorship-Propaganda. The submarine war and the German public in World War I, ibidem Verlag München, 2014, p. 46 ff. And cf. Wilhelm Deist, Flottenpolitik und Flottenpropaganda, Stuttgart 1976, SA. 81ff.

[4] Hans Hildebrand, Formation History and Staffing of the German Armed Forces 1815–1990, Volume 2 (Marine) Biblio Verlag Osnabrück, 2000

[5] Dermot Bradley (ed.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Deutschlands Admirale 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 2: HO, Biblio Verlag. Osnabrück 1988. ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 . P. 170f.