Marine review
The Marine-Rundschau (MR) was a German military magazine that was founded in 1890 by the Reichsmarineamt (RMA) and was published with brief interruptions due to the First and Second World War until 1989. In contrast to military magazines such as the military weekly , the MR dealt almost exclusively with maritime topics.
From the foundation to the First World War
The MR appeared for the first time in November 1890 by Mittler & Sohn Verlag and replaced the monthly "Supplements to the Marine Ordinance Gazette " that had been published at irregular intervals up to then . The first publisher was the RMA's news bureau until the end of the First World War. From 1895 it appeared as an independent magazine. The first years had the following structure:
A. Larger articles (e.g. naval maneuvers of foreign naval forces , technical innovations, reports from foreign theaters of war)
B. Reports from the foreign stations of the Imperial Navy in Africa , America , Asia , Australia and the South Seas .
C. News from foreign navies ( launches , test drives, technical innovations)
D. Other communications ( marine casualties , maritime operations by colonial powers in their colonies )
E. Obituaries
G. Submissions (e.g. personal experience reports in nautical matters)
H. Literature (book reviews)
I. Brief contents of naval orders and naval ordinance sheets
K. Magazines and books (e.g. "International Review of the Entire Armies and Fleets", "New Military Papers", "Military Weekly", "Army and Navy Journal", "Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute ", "Revista Maritima Brazileira", "Tidsskrift for Søvaesen", "Army and Navy Gazette", "The illustrated Naval and Military Magazine", "Le Yacht", "Revue Maritime et Coloniale", "Rivista Marittima", "Communications from the area of the sea "," Tidskraft i Sjöväsendet "or" Revista General de Marina ")
L. Maps, illustrations
M. Information about foreign warships (e.g. experiments with the American dynamite cruiser USS Vesuvius )
The reports published under “B.” are practically congruent with the official reports of the ship's commanders , such as B. the article about the sinking of the Haitian gunboat Crête-à-Pierrot by SMS Panther on September 6, 1902 in the port of La Gonaives on the occasion of the Markomannia incident . Out of the series, special issues z. B. on naval warfare during the Russo-Japanese War or the participation of the Imperial Navy in the Herero uprising in 1904 (“The Marine Expeditionary Corps in South West Africa during the Herero uprising”, Berlin 1905). With the outbreak of the First World War, the magazine ceased its publication with the 25th year.
Weimar Republic and the Nazi era, 1921–1944
Volume 26 was published in January 1921; The publisher was now the General Naval Office of the Reichsmarine . Editor-in-chief (main editor ) was Rear Admiral Reinhold Gadow from 1929 to 1942 . With the August 1944 issue of the magazine in its 49th year, it was canceled again.
Federal Republic of Germany, 1953–1989
1953 appeared under the chief editor of Admiral a. D. Erich Förste in turn in the 50th year at Verlag Mittler; how the magazine was funded is unclear. From August 1956 acted as editor of the working group for defense research . Chief editor was Jürgen Rohwer , one of the main staff Erich Gröner . Other collaborators and authors or guest authors were Erich Lawrenz, Niels Neelsen, Hannsjörg Kowark , Joseph Luns , Lord Chalfont , Sir Terence Lewin, James L. Holloway, in 1985 even Sergei Gorschkow as well as Robert O'Neill, Robert Scheina, Norman Polmar and Charles F. Barnaby.
In 1973 the magazine moved from Mittler to JF Lehmanns Verlag due to financial difficulties , and in 1977 to Bernard & Graefe. In 1983 MR was taken over by the Mönch Group. Due to considerable tensions with the publishing house management, which demanded further commercialization of the magazine through advertising at the expense of scientific contributions, Rohwer resigned in 1986. With issue 6/1989 the “Marine-Rundschau” was discontinued.
literature
- Marine-Rundschau , in: Georg von Alten (Hrsg.): Handbook for Army and Fleet. Encyclopedia of War Studies and Related Areas , Vol. 5, Berlin a. a. 1914, p. 310.
- Helmut Schnitter : Military affairs and journalism. Military journalism in the history of the bourgeois military in Germany . East Berlin 1967.
- Markus Pöhlmann (Hrsg.): German military journals in the 20th century (= Potsdam writings on military history, vol. 17). Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-941571-18-1 , p.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The destruction of the Haitian rebel cruiser "Crête-à-Pierrot" by SMKbt. "Panther" , in: Marine-Rundschau , 13th year, 1902, pp. 1189–1197.