Hermann Schoemann

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Hermann Friedrich Wolfgang Nestor Schoeman (* 17th April 1881 in Putbus on Rügen ; † 1. May 1915 at North Hinder Lightship) was an German naval officer , most recently lieutenant commander in WWI . On July 16, 1936, the destroyer Z 7 was named after him.

Life

Hermann Schoemann was the second of five children of the high school teacher of the same name, who worked as a professor at the royal pedagogy in Putbus , and Elisabeth Schoemann. In 1899 he joined the Imperial Navy , where in 1910 he was appointed commander of one of the new large torpedo boats . In April 25, 1915, Schoemann, meanwhile lieutenant captain , became the first boss of the newly founded torpedo boat flotilla Flanders in the German-occupied part of Belgium. The flotilla consisted of the new, but slow and not very powerful coastal torpedo boats of the AI class . He fell on SMS A 2 on May 1, 1915 , when he was looking for two crashed German airmen at Noordhinder-Bank and came into action with an enemy outpost flotilla. Surprisingly, this support given by four major British destroyer of the L-Class and the two far inferior German boats were shot. In the unequal battle, SMS A 6 were sunk next to his boat .

literature

  • Erich Schulte Mönting : Hermann Schoemann . In: Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine (Hrsg.): Marine-Rundschau: Monthly magazine for sea creatures. Volume 43, No. 4. Berlin: ES Mittler & Sohn , 1938, pp. 233-235.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/Verlustlisten/vl_halbstocks_die_flagge_wk1_teil_1_torpedoboote.htm
  2. ↑ Hildebrand, Hans H.; Röhr, Albert; Steinmetz, Hans-Otto: Biographies: a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present. Volume 4: Historical overview. Ship biographies from Greif to Kaiser. Essen: Mundus, [1997] (The German Warships). Licensed edition by Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, undated, p. 118.
  3. ↑ Erich Schulte Mönting: Hermann Schoemann. 1938, pp. 233-235.
personal data
SURNAME Schoemann, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoemann, Hermann Friedrich Wolfgang Nestor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, most recently lieutenant captain in World War I.
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Putbus
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1915
Place of death Nordhinder lightship