Max von Fischel

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Admiral Max von Fischel

Max Fischel , von Fischel since 1908 (born March 31, 1850 in Koblenz , † May 11, 1929 in Kiel ) was a German admiral .

Life

Fischel was the son of Justice Councilor Julius Fischel and joined the Navy of the North German Confederation as a cadet on April 15, 1867, and initially completed his basic training on the sailing frigate Gefion . For training purposes he then came to the sailing frigate Niobe , the schooner Hela and the smooth-deck corvette Medusa . In the meantime, Fischel had been appointed midshipman and promoted to sub-lieutenant on August 19, 1871 . After he had attended the naval school from October 11, 1871 to October 22, 1872, he was assigned as a company officer in the 1st Sailor Division. For four months he was an adjutant in the cabin boy division and served on the sailing frigate Niobe until October 10, 1873 . As an officer on watch , Fischel came on board the covered corvette Arcona and was promoted to lieutenant at sea on January 16, 1875 .

On March 18, 1876, he was transferred to the Imperial Shipyard Danzig as adjutant . He was then used from May 7, 1877 to September 30, 1878 as a watch officer on the armored ship Germany , the covered corvette Hertha and the gunboat Comet . At the naval academy and school (Kiel) he then graduated from I. to III. Coetus and was deployed as first officer on the torpedo boat Zieten between courses and was promoted to lieutenant captain on June 22, 1879 . From May 1, 1881, Fischel was transferred to the staff of the Baltic Sea naval station as a torpedo consultant and at the same time he was used on the torpedo training ship Blücher, first as first officer and later as commander. From April 16, 1884 to April 13, 1886, he was transferred to the same position on board the covered corvette Elisabeth . For seventeen months he acted as torpedo director at the Kaiserliche Werft Kiel , on June 22, 1886 he became a corvette captain and at the same time a teacher at the naval academy. Fischel was then commander of the I. Torpedo Division until March 31, 1889 and from May 1 to September 18, 1888 at the same time chief of the torpedo boat flotilla.

On April 1, 1889, he was transferred to the command of the navy and from November 10, 1892 to October 16, 1893, he was in command of the Württemberg tank corvette . There he was promoted to sea captain on April 4, 1893, and from October 16, 1893 to September 20, 1895, Fischel was appointed chief of staff in the staff of the maneuvering squadron. On October 20, 1895, he was appointed head of the military department in the Reichsmarineamt . There he remained after his appointment as director of the general naval department until September 30, 1900. In this function he was also from November 13, 1899 to October 22, 1900 deputy agent to the Federal Council and was promoted to rear admiral on July 18, 1900 . From October 1, 1900, Fischel acted as 2nd Admiral of the 1st Squadron and came from October 2, 1901 to June 30, 1904 as chief shipyard director at the Kaiserliche Werft Kiel. Subsequently placed at the disposal of the chief of the naval station of the Baltic Sea, one appointed Vice Admiral Fischel (since July 13, 1904) on October 1, 1904 as chief of the 2nd squadron .

In this position he was made admiral on September 17, 1907 and, as such, a short time later, from October 1, 1907 to January 11, 1908, to the Most High. Fischel then became chief of the naval station in the North Sea and in this function he was entrusted with the management of the chief of the admiralty's staff from September 6th to September 30th, 1909. Kaiser Wilhelm II. He had the hereditary Prussian on June 15, 1908 peerage charged . Finally, on October 1, 1909, Fischel was appointed Chief of the Admiralty's Staff in the Navy. On March 11, 1911, he was made available and at the same time à la suite of the naval officer corps.

His son Hermann von Fischel also advanced to admiral during the Second World War .

In 1905, Admiral Max von Fischel commissioned the architect and designer Richard Riemerschmid , who was one of the most prominent representatives of Art Nouveau in Germany, to build and furnish his villa at Niemannsweg 127 in Kiel-Düsternbrook .

  • Richard Riemerschmid's Villa Fischel in the Niemannsweg in Kiel

  • Villa Fischel in Kiel: Entrée and Wendelstein

Honors

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. Volume 1: A-G. (Ackermann to Gygas), Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1988, ISBN 3-7648-2480-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Marinekabinett , (Ed.): Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1918, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Fischel, Max von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German admiral
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1929
Place of death Kiel