Iwan Oldekop (Admiral, 1844)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vice Admiral Iwan FJ Oldekop, oil painting ca.1900

Iwan Friedrich Julius Oldekop (born October 3, 1844 in Hanover ; † January 7, 1936 there ) was a German vice admiral .

Life

Origin, family

Iwan Oldekop was the son of the Hanoverian war council Theodor Oldekop . In 1858 he began his nautical training as a cabin boy .

He was married to Ottilie von Rauschenplat (1851-1923) (January 4, 1888). The marriage resulted in two sons: Hans Justus Henning (born 1889 in Wilhelmshaven) and Karl Henning Emil Iwan Otto Wilhelm (born 1896 in Kiel).

The future admiral of the Reichsmarine Iwan Oldekop was his nephew.

Military background

Oldekop joined the Prussian Navy on May 1, 1865 as a midshipman on the SMS Niobe . Upon successful completion of his training, he also received a “royal commendation” for his skills. The later admirals Oscar Boeters , Wilhelm Büchsel , Otto von Diederichs , Richard von Geißler , Oscar Klausa and Alfred von Tirpitz also belonged to his training course . Like Tirpitz, Oldekop was later assigned to the so-called Crew 65 .

On August 31, 1869 he was promoted to lieutenant zS. From July 1870 to July 1872 he was in command of the SMS Hay . On July 24th, 1873 he was promoted to lieutenant captain. In 1873/1874 Oldekop was first officer on the SMS Rover under the command of the later Vice Admiral Rudolf Schering , and in 1875 Lieutenant Captain on the HMS / SMS Renown under the command of the later Admiral Alexander von Monts .

From 1876 to 1879 Oldekop worked as a "Member of the Art (illerie) Examination Comm (ission)" on the Admiral's staff in Berlin. From November 1882 to February 1886 he was a Plenipotentiary at the German Embassy in London . The associated tasks corresponded to those of the later naval attachés. On March 22, 1886 he was promoted to sea captain.

In 1887 Oldekop took up a position as commander of the II. Sailors Division within the II. Marine Inspection. From 1889 to 1890 he was chief of staff at the North Sea naval station in Wilhelmshaven. From October 1890 to January 1892 he commanded the tank frigate SMS Deutschland . On January 21, 1892, he received the rank of rear admiral .

From 1892 to 1895, Oldekop was inspector of the Second Marine Inspection, from 1895 inspector of the Imperial Navy education system and director of the Naval Academy in Kiel . In March 1899 he was promoted to Vice Admiral. When Curt von Maltzahn published his critical writings ("Seekriegslehre") in 1899 and Oldekop, as director of the academy, did not want to prevent this, Alfred von Tirpitz, State Secretary of the Reichsmarineamt , initiated the removal of Oldekop. Like Friedrich von Hollmann , Hans von Koester , Victor Valois and Maltzahn, Oldekop was one of the opponents of the construction of battleships ( Tirpitz Plan ) and instead advocates of the cruiser war and was therefore in opposition to the decisive figures in the Berlin Reichsmarineamt. On November 13, 1899, at the age of 56, he was put on hold and withdrew into private life.

On January 15, 1901, he wrote to his close friend and companion, Vice Admiral Otto von Diederichs, looking back: "... that I am happy inside, under the circumstances and circumstances under a regime T [irpit] z, S [enden] and v [on] K [oester] no longer need to serve. "

Subsequent civilian activities

ID card for a certified member of the sanitary - column of the Red Cross , with a stamp of the Soldiers' Council in the station headquarters in Hanover and handwritten signature of Oldekop

After his retirement from the Navy, Oldekop held several honorary positions , including on the supervisory board of the “ Hanoverian housing association for non-profit housing ”.

Oldekop was also chairman of the German Red Cross Hanover .

Oldekopstrasse

Oldekopstraße , which was laid out in the Hanoverian district of Bothfeld in 1926 , was named in the same year - during Oldekop's lifetime - after the former vice admiral, according to the address book of the city of Hanover from 1927 after "[...] a promoter of the homestead system ".

See also

literature

  • Military History Research Office : German Marines in Transition. Section: Tirpitz strategic work before and after the World War. v. William Michaelis , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag , Munich 2005.
  • Klaus Franken: The naval cabinet of Kaiser Wilhelm II and its first boss, Admiral Gustav von Senden-Bibran. Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, 2015.
  • Patrick J. Kelly: Tirpitz and the imperial German navy. Indiana University Press, 2011.
  • Holger H. Herwig: "Luxury" Fleet - The Imperial German Navy 1888-1918. Routledge Library Editons, Humanity Books, 1987.

to Rauschenplat:

  • Hans Mahrenholtz : The Rauschenplat family in Lower Saxony (= research reports , new series, Bd. 2), Hanover: Family Studies Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen as well as bordering East Westphalian areas eV, 1985

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Patrick J. Kelly: Tirpitz and the imperial German navy. Indiana University Press, 2011, p. 27
  2. ↑ rank and town quarter and Anciennetätsliste the Imperial Navy for the year 1877-1878 (concluded on 01.12.1877), Redaction: The Imperial Admiralty, Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, Royal Hofbuchhandlung, Berlin
  3. ^ Heinrich Otto Meisner: Military attachés and military representatives in Prussia and in the German Empire. History of military diplomacy, Rütten & Loening Verlag, Berlin 1957.
  4. ↑ Holger H. Herwig: "Luxury" Fleet - The Imperial German Navy 1888-1918 , Routledge Library Editons, Humanity Books, 1987, p. 1898.
  5. ↑ Military History Research Office German Marines in Transition , section Tirpitz strategic work before and after World War II . William Michaelis , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag , Munich, 2005, p. 409 "... he (Tirpitz) had the inspector of education (Oldekop) farewell by telegram because he had given permission to publish a war science study on the cruiser war ".
  6. ↑ Patrick J. Kelly: Tirpitz and the imperial german navy , Indiana University Press, 2011: Tirpitz forced Oldekop into retirement without even the courtesy of a hearing. (on p. 164) and He (Tirpitz) persecuted his old friends, Oldekop and Maltzahn, for minor deviations from his viewpoint (on p. 461)
  7. ↑ Federal Archives / Military Archives, N255 (estate of Adm. Otto von Diederichs) vol. 13, letter from Oldekop to Diederichs of January 15, 1901 (quoted by Klaus Franken: the naval cabinet of Kaiser Wilhelm II. And his first boss, Admiral Gustav von Senden-Bibran , Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, 2015, p. 291)
  8. ↑ Justus Oldekop: Oldekop. In: New German Biography . Vol. 19 (1999), p. 504 f.
  9. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Oldekopstraße , in which: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 187.
personal data
SURNAME Oldekop, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oldekop, Iwan Friedrich Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Vice Admiral
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1936
Place of death Hanover