Julius Augustus Furer

Julius Augustus Furer (born October 9, 1880 in Mosel , Wisconsin , † June 6, 1963 ) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy during World War II .

Life

He attended the United States Naval Academy from 1897 , where he graduated top of the class in 1901. After serving on the battleship USS Indiana (BB-1) and the torpedo boat USS Shubrick (TB-31), he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he received his Master of Science degree in 1905 . After administrative posts at the naval base in Charleston, South Carolina and the naval shipyard in Philadelphia , he was given the task of organizing the equipment of Pearl Harbor , where the new headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet was built. When the submarine Submarine F-4 (Submarine No. 23) sank off Honolulu on March 25, 1915 , he campaigned for its recovery and invented a retractable pontoon for this purpose .

In late 1915, he became head of the Supply Division of the Bureau of Construction and Repair in Washington, DC . Here he campaigned for the construction of destroyers for submarine huntings and stood up against the advocates of smaller ships for this purpose, which led to the order of 450 ships based on Furer's designs and earned him the Navy Cross . After the end of the First World War , he served on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, where he worked on various improvements in ship design. From December 1922 to April 1927 he was part of a US Navy embassy in Brazil , after which he was involved in building the military airfield in Cavite in the Philippines . In 1928 he became manager of the Industrial Department of the Philadelphia Navy Yard , where he oversaw the modernization of the battleships Pennsylvania (BB-38) and New Mexico (BB-40) . From 1935 to 1937 he served as a naval attaché in the US embassies in London, Paris, Berlin and Rome and as such took part in the 1936 naval conference in London .

At the outbreak of World War II , he was appointed Rear Admiral Coordinator of Research and Development on the National Research and Development Board. His services to the development of new weapon systems earned him the award of the Legion of Merit . In 1945 he retired from active service, but from 1951 worked in the History Division of the Navy. In his second retirement, he wrote Administration of the Navy Department in World War II , published in 1960.

Julius Augustus Furer died on June 6, 1963 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

USS Julius A. Furer (FFG-6)

The USS Julius A. Furer (FFG-6)

After Julius Augustus Furer, the frigate USS Julius A. Furer (FFG-6) was commissioned in 1967 . After decommissioning in 1988, it was leased to Pakistan from 1989 to 1994 and scrapped in 1994.

Works

• Julius Augustus Furer: Administration of the Navy Department in World War II . United States Government Printing Office , Washington, DC 1960, OCLC 1915787 .

Web links

• Person entry on the website of Arlington National Cemetery (Engl.)