Karl Ferdinand Batsch

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Karl Ferdinand Batsch

Karl Ferdinand Batsch (born January 10, 1831 in Eisenach , † November 22, 1898 in Weimar ) was a German naval officer , most recently vice admiral .

Life

Batsch joined the merchant navy in 1846 , made his first trip to East Asia on a Hamburg barque and in 1848 joined the Prussian navy as a second class sailor . For a year he was commanded to serve in the United States Navy and deployed there on the St. Lawrence . In 1852 Batsch was promoted to lieutenant II class and adjutant to Commodore Schröder . In 1856 he took part in the voyage of the Danzig and the expedition against the Rifpiraten , in 1857 he was assigned to the British Navy for a year and a half, was an adjutant at the High Command of the Navy from 1862–1864, was promoted to corvette captain in May 1864 and commanded the cricket in small battles with the Danish ships at Rügen . He commanded the Victoria from 1864 to 1865 and the cadet training ship Niobe from the end of 1865 to 1867, with which he was in command of a major training voyage to the West Indies .

In 1866/67 he was the first director of the naval school in Kiel . In 1867 he became Chief of Staff at the Navy High Command . 1870. Captain transported, he commanded from 1871, the Vineta during their two-year stay as steady in the West Indies, where he, the government of Haiti forced to pacify a German complaint.

In 1873 Batsch became Chief of Staff of the Admiralty, in 1875 Rear Admiral and in 1876 and 1877 he was the commander of the armored squadrons, which were sent to the Aegean Sea to protect German interests , where unrest against Christian residents occurred in the context of the Balkan crisis, during which the German consul was also Abbott was murdered in Salonika . At Bismarck's request, the armored training squadron was sent to Saloniki, where the Kaiser armored frigates arrived on June 25, 1876 , their sister ship Germany , Crown Prince and Friedrich Carl, and the Aviso Pommerania . The gunboat Comet followed the squadron. Batsch was also subject to Medusa , Nautilus and Meteor . Russian, French, Austro-Hungarian and English units were also present. On August 21, the complaint against Turkey was ended by the salute of the German and French flags and the Admiralty wanted to withdraw the squadron. However, the German Foreign Office considered a further presence necessary. On August 23, under Batsch, only part of the squadron began to march back with Kaiser , Germany and Medusa , which returned to Wilhelmshaven on September 13.

From June 1, 1877 Batsch relocated with the tank training squadron back to the eastern Mediterranean, where the Russian-Turkish war had broken out in the meantime . The association consisted of Kaiser , Germany , Friedrich Carl , the new armored frigate Prussia and the Aviso Falke , plus the Gazelle , which was still in the Mediterranean, and the gunboat Comet and the Aviso Pommerania . The main focus of the squadron's activities this time was off the coast of Palestine , where Batsch called Port Said and Jaffa on July 1st to 5th , from where the admiral made a trip to Jerusalem with his staff and parts of the crew . The further focus was again in the Aegean, where from July 30th to August 4th Saloniki and from August 13th and again from September 10th to 25th Piraeus were called. The squadron was ordered back to Germany in October and returned to Wilhelmshaven on October 21.

Also in 1878 Batsch commanded the tank squadron sent for the same purpose ( King Wilhelm , Great Elector , Prussia and Falke ), which crashed on May 31 in the canal near Folkestone due to a collision between King Wilhelm and the Great Elector . Batsch was therefore brought before a court martial and sentenced to six months of imprisonment in a fortress in July 1879 , but after serving 14 days in prison he was pardoned on August 15, 1879 and appointed director of the Admiralty.

Batsch was promoted to Vice Admiral on February 3, 1880, and on January 25, 1881 he was appointed Chief of the Baltic Sea Naval Station in Kiel. After the resignation of the head of the Admiralty von Stosch , who had assisted Batsch after the disaster of the Great Elector , the navy and Bismarck's Batsch was seen as the new head of the Admiralty. At the suggestion of Emil Albedyll , head of the Military Cabinet , appointed William I. However, Leo von Caprivi in this office. Caprivi's patent as lieutenant general was postponed by three years to be exactly one day older than Batsch. Batsch thereupon asked for his release from service. He was for the July 21, 1883 disposition while à la suite made of Seeoffizierkorps.

Works

  • Admiral Prince Adalbert of Prussia. Berlin 1884.
  • Nautical reviews. Berlin 1892.

as well as maritime-strategic essays, including on the fortification of Heligoland.

See also

literature

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 1 : Historical overview. Ship biographies from Adler to Augusta . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 71–73 (Approved licensed edition by Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, approx. 1990).
  2. ↑ Brockhaus Konversationslexikon . 14th edition. Volume 2: Astrakhan - Bilk . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1894 ( online [accessed on January 20, 2015]).
personal data
SURNAME Batsch, Karl Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Batsch, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, most recently vice admiral
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1898
Place of death Weimar