Karl August Deinhard
Karl August Deinhard (born February 2, 1842 in London , † October 4, 1892 in Wilhelmshaven ) was a German vice admiral .
Life
origin
Karl August was the son of the businessman Carl Deinhard, head of the London branch of the Deinhard sparkling wine and winery , and his wife Clara, née Müller. After the early death of his father in 1850, his mother and three children returned to Germany.
Military career
On April 24, 1856, Deinhard joined the Prussian Navy as a cadet aspirant and reached the rank of lieutenant captain by February 20, 1868 . On February 17, 1874 he was promoted to corvette captain. As the commander of the cruiser frigate Bismarck of the Imperial Navy , he affirmed the German claims to the Samoa Islands in the conflict over Samoa between 1878 and 1880 and installed Malietoa I as king.
Deinhard was promoted to sea captain on March 22, 1880 and later commanded various ironclad ships before becoming rear admiral and later inspector of the 2nd naval inspection on November 15, 1887 . As chief of the cruiser squadron, he led the blockade in East Africa in 1888 to suppress the so-called Buschiri uprising . On January 27, 1890 he became Vice Admiral and only a little later he received the supreme command of the maneuvering fleet of that year. In mid-April 1890 Deinhard received approval to accept the Order of Bath ( Knight Commander ).
On August 11, 1892, he was appointed head of the North Sea naval station in Wilhelmshaven, but on October 4, 1892, he died there of the consequences of malaria brought with him from East Africa .
The Thorner Presse reported in its edition of October 9, 1892:
Wilhelmshafen, October 7 [1892]. The special train with the corpse of Vice Admiral Deinhard left for Bremen at 10 a.m. Before that, at 9 o'clock in the presence of the Admiral Freiherr von der Goltz, there was a solemn mourning parade, which Contreadmiral Oldekop commanded. When the train with the corpse cable set in motion, the funeral salute was fired from a battery on the artillery = training ship "Mars".
family
On November 11, 1890, Deinhard married the Bremen consul and merchant daughter Minna Leupold. From this marriage the children Wilhelmine, to whom Kaiser Wilhelm II was godfather, and Carl emerged.
Honor
In his honor, the Navy renamed the small Norwegian torpedo boat Laks captured during the German raid on Norway to Admiral Deinhard .
literature
- Gerhard Beckmann, Klaus-Ulrich Keubke (ed.): Everyday life in the Imperial Navy around 1890. Brandenburgisches Verlags-Haus, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89488-051-1 , pp. 66–67.
- Hugo von Waldeyer-Hartz: Bana kubwa. The German admiral. A story from the struggles for German East Africa to acquire. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig 1930
- Thomas Morlang: A punch in the water. In: The time. Hamburg January 17th, 2002.
- Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 1: A-G. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1988, p. 234 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Military weekly paper . No. 35 of April 19, 1890, p. 1104.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Deinhard, Karl August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Vice Admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 4, 1892 |
| Place of death | Wilhelmshaven |