Julius Lauterbach

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Captain of the reserve Julius Lauterbach

Julius Lauterbach , later Julius Lauterbach-Emden , (born November 24, 1877 in Rostock , † April 18, 1937 in Sønderborg ) was a German captain and naval officer .

Life

From 1909 onwards , Julius Lauterbach undertook a nautical training in the merchant navy with the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft in East Asia. There he was, among others, captain of the imperial post steamer Secretary Kraetke (built in 1905 Howaldt, Kiel, 2009 BRT, kn 11, 116 passengers) and adopted in June 1914 as a lieutenant of the reserve in an exercise of the Imperial Navy in part.

Julius Lauterbach was a prize officer of the small cruiser SMS Emden during the First World War . On the evening of November 8, 1914, he took over command of the British coal steamer Exford , which had been captured two weeks earlier, and moved the ship to a remote waiting position until the end of November. After the SMS Emden failed to materialize - it had already been sunk in combat on November 9, 1914 - he set course for Padang as ordered . Before the port entrance, already in neutral sea ​​area , the British auxiliary cruiser HMS Himalaya landed the Exford . Lauterbach and the 16 men of the crew fell into British captivity at Tanglin barracks in Singapore . In the course of the Sepoy mutiny ( mutiny of the Indian soldiers) from February 15 to 23, 1915, 35 of the 309 interned Germans fled , including Lauterbach. Most of the German prisoners regarded the mutiny as illegitimate and refused to give the mutineers the support they had hoped for. It is wrongly rumored in several variations that the mutiny was due to an initiative by Lauterbach. He told the Muslim sepoy that the German Kaiser and his wife had converted to Islam, that the Berlin opera house would become a mosque and that the German Empire would become an Islamic state.

Model of the SMS Möve

Lauterbach managed to get through to Germany. As early as 1917 he published his experiences in book form ( £ 1,000 head price - dead or alive: escape adventure of the former prize officer S.M.S. “Emden” Julius Lauterbach ) and gained notoriety.

In January 1916 he had already taken command of the submarine trap Ship K , which was sunk by British destroyers in the Kattegat on November 2, 1917 - Lauterbach was one of the survivors. As early as October 1917, he became an administrative officer of the 1st Trade Protection Flotilla. On January 1, 1918, he took over command of the SMS Möve , meanwhile captainleutnant .

After the First World War, Julius Lauterbach and Felix Graf von Luckner went on lecture tours about his experiences. Both had the same agent during this time: Dorothea Schneider-Lindemann.

Lauterbach is mentioned in connection with the mutiny in Singapore in 2002 in the English travel guide The Rough Guide to Singapore .

Awards

  • Iron Cross (1914) 2nd class
  • Iron Cross (1914) 1st class
  • As a survivor of the last battle of the Emden , Lauterbach received the right to use the heritable suffix "-Emden".

Fonts

  • 1000 £ head price - dead or alive: Escape adventure of the former prize officer SMS “Emden” Julius Lauterbach. Scherl, Berlin 1917. Dutch: £ 1000 belooning - dood of levend: Avontuurlijke vlucht door de Hollandsche koloniën. Langenhuysen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam 1918.

literature

  • Nigel Barley : Rogue Raider: The Tale of Captain Lauterbach and the Singapore Mutiny. Monsoon Books, ISBN 978-981-05-5949-6 .
  • Dan van der Vat: The Last Corsair: The Story of the Emden. Birlinn, 2001, ISBN 978-1-84158-061-6 .
  • Lowell Thomas: My friend Juli-Bumm: The adventures of Captain Lauterbach von der Emden. Translated into German from the American edition by Fritz von Bothmer. Edited by Felix Graf von Luckner . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1933.
    • English original: Lauterbach of the China sea. Hutchison, 1931.
    • French translation: Mes aventures des côtes de Chine a la Baltique. souvenirs, receuillies par Lowell Thomas. Payot, Paris 1932.
  • Reinhard Roehle: As a refugee halfway around the globe - The adventurous experiences of the award officer SMS Emden KptLt d. R. Julius Lauterbach retold. UDV, Berlin / Leipzig 1920.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RK Lochner: The pirate trips of the small cruiser EMDEN. Heyne, ISBN 3-453-00951-7 , p. 7.
  2. ↑ 1915 Singapore Mutiny in the English language Wikipedia
  3. ^ Mark Lewis: The Rough Guide to Singapore. 2003, ISBN 978-1-84353-075-6 , p. 46.
  4. ↑ On-board community of Emden drivers: More about SMS Emden , accessed on January 20, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Lauterbach, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauterbach-Emden, Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German captain and naval officer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1937
Place of death Sønderborg