Jean Ernest Odend'hal
Jean Ernest Odend'hal (born December 14, 1884 in Brest , Finistère department , † March 19, 1957 in Bohars , Finistère department) was a Vice Admiral in the French Navy .
Life
Training as a naval officer and First World War
After attending school in 1900, Odend'hal began training as a naval officer at the Naval School (École Navale) and on the training ship Duguay-Trouin. On October 5, 1903, he was first transferred to the cruiser Pascal and then to the battleship Le Redoutable , with which he took part in operations in the Far East . After his promotion to lieutenant at sea (Enseigne de vaisseau de deuxième classe) on October 5, 1905, he became an officer on the Bombarde and took part in operations off the coast of Morocco in 1907 . Then he took 1,909 first use on belonging to the Atlantic Squadron Fauconneau and later on belonging to the North squadron Branlebas before it 1,910 trainers on the pilot school (Ecole des pilotes) belonging Chamois under the command of the late Rear Admiral Antoine Exelmans was. In 1912 he became an orderly officer of the commander-in-chief of the 3rd Mediterranean Squadron (3ème Escadre en Méditerranée) , Flotilla Admiral Louis de Marolles , and was promoted to lieutenant captain (Lieutenant de Vaisseau) on October 3, 1912 . He was then in 1913 aide-de-camp of the commander of the 2nd Light Squadron (2ème Escadre légère) Flotilla Admiral Charles-Eugène Favereau , on its flagship Gloire .
On January 9, 1914, Odend'hal took over his first command of his own, as the commander of a torpedo boat group as well as the torpedo boat T 236 at the Cherbourg naval base . This was followed by a post in the 2nd Department of the General Staff during the First World War in 1915 and, between 1916 and July 1917, as an officer in the base department of the Orient Expeditionary Forces AFO (Armée française d'Orient) or, most recently, as the commander of the Sans-Souci . In August 1917 he was then aide-de-camp and head of the secretariat of Rear Admiral Ferdinand-Jean-Jacques de Bon , Chief of the General Staff of the Navy (Chef d'état-major de la Marine) . He then remained from May 1919 initially an officer in the General Staff and was promoted as such to Corvette Captain (Capitaine de Corvette) on August 25, 1919 .
Post-war period, promotion to vice admiral and World War II
On January 1, 1919, Odend'hal was again aide-de-camp of Rear Admiral de Bon, who was now on the Bretagne-class battleship Provence as the flagship of the squadron in command in the eastern Mediterranean (Escadre de Méditerranée Orientale) . As such, he was on 27 November 1922. Commander (Capitaine de Frégate) promoted and took over following the command of the torpedo boat Enseigne Roux that the English Channel - and North Sea Department (Division de la Manche et de la Mer du Nord) belonged . In 1925 he became the commander of the torpedo boat Marocain and the 6th torpedo boat squadron (6ème Escadrille de torpilleurs) and took part in the Rif War as such . For his services there he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor in 1924 . In 1928 he attended the Center for Higher Naval Studies (Center des Hautes Études Navales) as an officer auditor and was promoted to captain of the sea (Capitaine de Vaisseau) on August 19, 1928 . This was followed from 1929 to 1931 use as commander of the Duquesne-class belonging heavy cruiser Tourville in the Pacific Ocean and then from 1 January 1931 to June 1932 as head of the military cabinet of Secretary of the Navy Charles Dumont .
In June 1932, Odend'hal took on the role of professor and director of the Center for Advanced Naval Studies. After his promotion to Flotilla Admiral (Contre-amiral) in July 1933, he became Deputy Secretary General of the Supreme Council for National Defense (Conseil supérieur de la Défense nationale) . He then acted between February 1934 and June 1936 as head of the cabinet of Naval Minister François Piétri and between 1936 and 1938 as commander of the 2nd Light Squadron (2e escadre légère) . After his promotion to Rear Admiral (Vice-amiral) on July 3, 1938, he was in personal union commander of the Naval War School (Ecole de guerre navale) and commander of the Center for Higher Naval Studies. Subsequently, in 1939 he became Chief of the Naval Mission in the United Kingdom , where he dealt in particular with questions relating to the coordination of the joint activities of the French Navy with the Royal Navy . In December 1939 he was promoted to Vice-Admiral (Vice-amiral d'escadre) and finally retired in December 1943 from active military service.
Odend'hal was married and had two daughters. The older daughter Marie Odend'hal was married to Marc Biseau, who also began his training at the naval school in 1923 and was finally a frigate captain. His second daughter Anne Odend'hal was the wife of Jacques Flichy, who entered the naval school as an officer candidate in 1929 and last served as a sea captain in the navy. His great-grandson Tanneguy Biseau began his training at the naval school in 2002.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Antoine Exelmans on the homepage of the naval school
- ^ Louis de Marolles on the Naval School's homepage
- ^ Charles-Eugène Favereau on the Naval School's homepage
- ↑ Marc Biseau on the homepage of the naval school
- ↑ Tanneguy Biseau on the homepage of the Naval Academy
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Odend'hal, Jean Ernest |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French vice admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brest , Finistère department |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1957 |
| Place of death | Bohars , Finistère department |