Konrad Trummler

Konrad Trummler (born January 16, 1864 in Zwittau , † December 27, 1936 in Bremen ) was a German vice admiral in the First World War .

Life

Trummler joined the Imperial Navy as a cadet on April 15, 1881 and completed his training as a naval officer on various school ships and at the naval school in Kiel until mid-December 1885 . Subsequently he was a sub-lieutenant at sea as a company officer in the II. Sailor Division. In mid-July 1886 he embarked on the journey to Sydney on the steamer Salier in order to serve as an officer on watch on the station ship Albatross stationed in the South Seas until mid-August 1888 . In the meantime he was promoted to lieutenant at sea in mid-December 1887 and after his return to Germany Trummler was a watch officer on the ironclad Friedrich the Great before he was transferred to the naval school as an inspection officer at the end of September 1888. On April 1, 1889, he came as a watch officer on board the commissioned Irene under the command of Prince Heinrich of Prussia . During his service the small cruiser was the escort ship of the Imperial Yacht Hohenzollern on trips through the Mediterranean, to Scandinavia, Belgium and Russia.

After the ship was decommissioned on September 24, 1890, Trummler was available to the II. Marine Inspection or the II. Torpedo Department until December 1890 and completed a course on the torpedo training ship Blücher until the end of March 1891 . For a year he then acted as a company officer of the II. Sailor Artillery Department and from April 1892 drove for a year as first officer on the Aviso Loreley . This was followed by employment as a company officer in the II. Werft-Division. He also served as an officer on watch on the ironclad Frithjof for a month . As a lieutenant captain , Trummler graduated from the Naval Academy at the end of September 1894. After his successful graduation, he became first officer on the ironclad Beowulf in mid-April 1896 . After further assignments on board, he was ordered to serve in the naval cabinet in Berlin in April 1899. During this time he was promoted to Korvettenkapitän on March 23, 1901 . In October 1901 Trummler left for Douala and took over the gunboat Habicht in Cameroon as commander . Together with the gunboat Hyäne , it was sent to the Cape region on the occasion of the Second Boer War . After staying in South African waters for a year, he returned to Germany in October 1902.

After returning home, Trummler was transferred to the German embassy in Tokyo in November 1902 as a naval attaché and was assigned to the headquarters of the Japanese fleet as a reporter for the Admiralty's staff during the Russo-Japanese War . The Admiral's staff drew a great deal of benefit from this command and Trummler was promoted to frigate captain on March 21, 1905 . He was happy about his replacement by his successor Korvettenkapitän Richard Lange (1868–1939), as Trummler announced in a letter to the adjutant general of Emperor Gustav von Senden-Bibran (1847–1909) in a letter at the end of 1905 , since he was reporting his own reports during the Stay in Japan as poor. This was mainly due to the secrecy of the Japanese towards foreigners, but also to the fact that there was no support for his office from the embassy itself.

Arrived back in Germany at the beginning of 1906, Trummler was initially at the disposal of the chief of the naval station of the Baltic Sea and was transferred to the naval cabinet at the end of September 1906 when he was appointed head of department . On November 10, 1906, he was promoted to sea captain and from late October 1907 to late September 1908 Trummler was in command of the great cruiser Scharnhorst . He then took over the sister ship, the Gneisenau, and on September 15, 1910 became chief of staff at the North Sea naval station . In this position, he rose early September 1911. Rear Admiral and was from October 1912 to mid-May 1913 2. Admiral of the First Squadron of the High Seas Fleet . This was followed on November 5, 1912, a position as head of the Mediterranean division . Trummler started his journey home from Trieste at the end of October 1913 and was ordered to service the inspection of coastal artillery and mining in Cuxhaven . On December 10, 1913 he was appointed inspector of this inspection and at the same time he was in command of the fortifications near Cuxhaven. At the beginning of the First World War Trummler remained in these positions, was promoted to Vice Admiral on June 17, 1915 and was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Hanseatic Cross Hamburg. In approval of his resignation request, he was put up for disposition on December 16, 1916 .

Konrad Trummler died on December 27, 1936 in Bremen.

literature

• 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 3: P-Z. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 , pp. 467-468.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus-Volker Giessler: The institution of the naval attaché in the empire. Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein 1976, p. 93.
2. ^ Klaus-Volker Giessler: The institution of the naval attaché in the empire. Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein 1976, p. 108.