Johannes von Karpf
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Johannes August Karl Franz Karpf , von Karpf since 1913 (born October 17, 1867 in Dömitz ; † December 16, 1941 in Hamburg ) was a German rear admiral .
Life
origin
Karpf was born as the son of tax and customs inspector Johannes Karpf and his wife Louise in Dömitz . His father's family came from Neumünster , where his grandfather Martin Karpf settled as an Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian soldier after marrying the local Sophie Kelch after the wars of liberation . He attended the Fridericianum Schwerin .
Military career
Karpf joined the Imperial Navy on April 15, 1887 and was promoted to Rear Admiral. In 1915 he commanded the Gotland raid . He was wing adjutant of Kaiser Wilhelm II and commandant of his yachts Iduna and Hohenzollern . On June 16, 1913, Karpf was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II . Even after the end of the empire he was in close contact with the Hohenzollern family and, for example, accompanied the crown prince couple on a trip to Tenerife in 1925 .
Mandates
After 1918 he lived in Hamburg- Rotherbaum and was a member of the supervisory board of several Hamburg shipping companies, the Oertz -Werft, the Hamburg-Elbe-Schifffahrt, the Albingia insurance company and the Lübecker Hypotheken Bank (1933–1941).
Public offices
On June 13, 1934, Karpf was elected senior elder in the Hamburg parish of Sankt Petri and remained a member of the senior electorate until his death.
family
Karpf was married to Vally Ida Mina Johanna Nahmmacher (1878–1945) from Neubrandenburg , and had two daughters.
Awards
- Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with the bow and crown
- Order of the Crown II class with swords
- Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
- Prussian service award cross
- Knight's Cross II. Class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion
- Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross 1st Class
- Cross of Honor of the Order of the Griffin
- Knight of Honor Cross 1st Class of the Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig
- Friedrich-August-Kreuz II class
- Knight's Cross 2nd class of the House Order of the White Falcon
- Commander II class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Viktoria Luise von, Life as the Emperor's Daughter, p. 22.
- ^ Military weekly paper . No. 81 of June 19, 1913, p. 1865.
- ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen Häuser, 1931, p. 348.
- ↑ von Preussen, Louis Ferdinand, Mein Leben, p. 78.
- ^ Mossner, Directory of Directors and Supervisory Boards, 1924, p. 870.
- ^ Gerhard Schneider: Lübeck's banking policy through the ages (1898-1978) , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1979, p. 216
- ^ Herwarth von Schade: Hans (Johannes) von Karpf . In: On the harmony and welfare of this good city: 475 years of the senior elders' college in Hamburg . Convent, Hamburg 2003, OCLC 53903206 , p. 406 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy for 1918 , Ed .: Marine-Kabinett , Mittler & Sohn Verlag , Berlin 1918, p. 8
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karpf, Johannes von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Karpf, Johannes; Karpf, Hans von; Karpf, Johannes August Karl Franz von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rear admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Doemitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1941 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |