Joachim of Oriola

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Joachim Roderich Salvator Graf von Oriola (born January 11, 1858 in Berlin ; † November 16, 1907 there ) was a German naval officer , most recently a sea captain , and a military judge at the Reich Military Court .

Life

Origin and family

Joachim von Oriola was a member of the Prussian Counts of Oriola and the third of five children of the later Prussian Lieutenant General Eduard von Oriola (1809–1862) and his wife Maximiliane, née. by Armin (1818-1894). His older brother was Waldemar von Oriola (1854–1910) , a member of the Reichstag .

Joachim von Oriola had been married to Maria Countess von Hartmann (1880–1951) in Munich since 1905 - a daughter of Bavarian Major General Hermann von Hartmann (1838–1912) - remained childless. The widow married the diplomat Ludwig Graf von Spee (1870–1950) in 1914 .

Career

Von Oriola graduated from the Königlich Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium with an Abitur in 1877 . He then joined the Imperial Navy on April 21, 1877 and trained as a naval officer. In 1888 he was listed as a lieutenant at sea on the SMS Habicht . As a lieutenant captain he was commanded on February 10, 1895 by Kaiser Wilhelm II to the German embassy for the Kingdom of Italy in Rome . Until May 30, 1897, he maintained the marine political relations of the two allies united in the Triple Alliance; only his successor Korvettenkapitän Oskar Wentzel (who died in 1906) was officially listed as a naval attaché . As a result he received the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy in mid-March 1898 .

In the spring of 1898 he was assigned to the staff of the High Command of the Navy. In October 1898 he took over command of the SMS Habicht , now as corvette captain . Von Oriola was in command of SMS Niobe from late June 1901 to September 1901 and then in command of the small cruiser SMS Gazelle until October 1903 , with which he was ordered to Kiautschou . He was then assigned to the chief of the naval station of the Baltic Sea in the rank of frigate captain . In this position he was promoted on January 27, 1904. Captain and on 4 June 1904 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. On a proposal for two years military member of the Reich Military Court ordered. According to Section 82 of the Military Criminal Court Code of December 1, 1898, he was sworn in as a military member of the Reich Military Court when the President took up his post as judge in front of the assembled plenary. As a military member or officer judge, he was part of at least a seven-member senate consisting of legal and military members. It is not known whether he belonged to several senates.

Von Oriola had been a Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown since 1897 and a Knight of the Red Eagle Order III in 1904 . Class with ribbon, of the Crown Order III. Class, the Order of Saint Mauritius and Lazarus IV. Class, the Saint Stanislaus Order II. Class and the Mecidiye Order IV. Class as well as holder of the Rescue Medal and the Zentenar Medal .

He is buried in the old cathedral cemetery of St. Hedwig's parish in Berlin-Mitte .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632810 , p. 452, no. 2069.
  2. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses. 1821 . Volume 71, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1920, p. 348.
  3. ↑ Annual report on the united institutions of the Royal. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasiums, the Königl. Realschule and the royal. Preschool in Berlin: 1877/78 . 1878, p. 58 ( google.de [accessed December 15, 2019]).
  4. ^ Ranking and quarters list of the Imperial German Navy for the year 1888 . BoD 2012, ISBN 978-3-95427-160-3 (p. 49).
  5. ^ Klaus-Volker Giessler: The institution of the naval attaché in the empire. Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein 1976, ISBN 3-7646-1626-1 . P. 310. ( Military research. Department of Military History Studies, Volume 21).
  6. ^ Heinrich Otto Meisner : Military attachés and military representatives in Prussia and in the German Empire: a contribution to the history of military diplomacy . Rütten & Loening, 1957, p. 15 ( google.de [accessed December 19, 2019]).
  7. ^ Reichs-Marine-Amt: Marineverordnungsblatt . No. 4 . Berlin March 21, 1898, p. 59 ( bibliotekaelblaska.pl [accessed December 16, 2019]).
  8. ^ Reichs-Marine-Amt: Marineverordnungsblatt . No. 24 . Berlin April 22, 1898 ( bibliotekaelblaska.pl [accessed December 15, 2019]).
  9. ^ Reichs-Marine-Amt: Marineverordnungsblatt . Berlin October 20, 1898 ( bibliotekaelblaska.pl [PDF; accessed December 15, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Heiko Herold: Imperial power means sea power: The cruiser squadrons of the Imperial Navy as an instrument of German colonial and world politics from 1885 to 1901 . Walter De Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 978-3-486-85468-8 ( google.de [accessed December 15, 2019]).
  11. ^ Address book of the German Kiautschou area . Bookstore Otto Rose, Tsingtau 1902, p. 20 ( tsingtau.org [PDF; accessed December 16, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Guido von Frobel : Military weekly paper . ES Mittler & Sohn., 1903 ( google.de [accessed December 15, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Guido von Frobel: Military weekly paper. ES Mittler & Sohn., 1904, p. 313 ( google.de [accessed December 15, 2019]).
  14. ^ A b Guido von Frobel: Militär-Wochenblatt , ES Mittler & Sohn., 1904, p. 1694.
  15. ^ Marinekabinett (ed.): Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy for the year 1906. ES Mittler & Sohn. Berlin 1906. p. 84.
  16. ↑ M. Schlayer: Heer und Kriegsflotte , 1904, p. 243.
  17. ^ Günther Gribbohm: The Reich Military Court . Part of German legal culture in the Wilhelmine era , Berlin 2007, p. 7.
  18. ↑ Handbook of the highest court and the court of his K. and K. apostolic majesty for 1911 (p. 285).
  19. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy for 1918 , XLIV. Volume (p. 150)
  20. ↑ German Order Almanac: German Order List; Manual d. Knights of the Order u. Nuns of German nationality. 1.1904 / 05, Berlin 1904, p. 815, left column ( digitized version of the Philipps University of Marburg ).
personal data
SURNAME Oriola, Joachim von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oriola, Joachim Roderich Salvator Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer and military attaché as well as military judge at the Reich Military Court
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1907
Place of death Berlin