Yevgeny Andreevich Berens
Yevgeny Berens ( Russian : Евгений Андреевич Беренс; born October 30 . Jul / 11. November 1876 . Greg in Tbilisi ; † 7. March 1928 in Moscow ) was a Russian admiral , and from April 1919 to February 1920 Commander of the Soviet Navy .
Tsarist Russia
After attending the Russian Naval Academy , which he graduated from in 1895, Berens was a navigational officer on the cruiser Varyag and took part in the battle off Tschemulpo on February 9, 1904 , after which the crew of their badly damaged ship in the Korean port of Incheon (then Tschemulpo) sank himself. After being with the other survivors about Hong Kong was returned to Russia, he was awarded the Order of Saint Stanislaus awarded 4th grade and served 1905-06 as a teacher at the Naval College and from 1906 to 1909, first as Second and then as a first officer on the liner Zessarewitsch in the Baltic Fleet . On April 13, 1908, he was promoted to lieutenant captain. In 1909 he went back to the Naval Academy as a teacher. From 1910 to 1914 he was a Russian naval attaché in the Netherlands and Germany . In 1914 he was appointed Commander (Captain 2nd rank) and promoted to commander of the on in the summer of Schichau shipyard in Gdansk its launch is moving towards the light cruiser Admiral Nevelskoi appointed; however, the still unfinished ship was confiscated at the outbreak of the First World War and subsequently put into service by the German Navy as Elbing . Berens himself was recalled to Russia when the war broke out and assigned to the admiral's staff. In the summer of 1915 he became a naval attaché in Italy . After the February Revolution of 1917 he returned to Russia, was promoted to captain 1st rank and served as head of the statistics department and deputy chief in the admiralty's staff.
Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union
After the October Revolution he joined the Red Side and served it from 1917 to 1919 as chief of the admiralty's staff. During this time he was instrumental in the preparations for the Baltic Fleet's ice march . On April 24, 1919, after the death of Admiral Wassili Altfater two days earlier, he was appointed commander of the naval forces of the RSFSR . On February 5, 1920 he was transferred to the diplomatic service and was then a member of the Soviet delegations at various international conferences. In 1920 he was a member of the Soviet delegation at the negotiations for the Tartu Peace Treaty between the Russian Republic and Finland and at the Genoa and Lausanne Conferences (November 20, 1922 to July 24, 1923) for the treaty of neutrality and non-aggression between the Soviet Union and Turkey from December 17, 1925 to prepare. From 1924 he was Soviet military attaché in Great Britain , in 1925 in France . During this time he was instrumental in the negotiations on the return of the Russian ships interned in Bizerta under the orders of his brother Michail , which were formally handed over to the Soviet Union on October 29, 1924.
In 1926 Berens moved to the Office for Important Affairs of the People's Commissar for the Military and Navy and Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the USSR . Because of his critical attitude towards the military cooperation of the Soviet Union with Germany, he finally resigned from the civil service.
Vice Admiral Berens died on March 7, 1928 in Moscow and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Awards
- Order of Saint Stanislaus (2nd class and 4th class)
- Order of St. Vladimir (4th grade)
Familiar
His brother Michail Andrejewitsch Berens , who was two years younger than him, was Chief of Staff of the Baltic Fleet after the October Revolution, but was removed from his post and removed from service on January 12, 1918 by the Council of People's Commissars without a pension . He joined General Wrangel's White Army in August 1920 and in January 1921, as Rear Admiral, became Commander-in-Chief of Wrangel's fleet, the so-called Russian Squadron , interned in Bizerta .
Web links
- Краткие биографические справки ( Memento from June 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Article Yevgeny Andrejewitsch Berens in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
literature
- С. В. Волков: Офицеры флота и морского ведомства: Опыт мартиролога. Moscow, 2004, ISBN 5-85887-201-8 (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berens, Yevgeny Andreevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Беренс, Евгений Андреевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian admiral, commander of the Soviet Navy (1919–1920) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tbilisi , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1928 |
| Place of death | Moscow |