Oskar von Platen-Hallermund

Oskar Rudolf Karl Marius Graf von Platen-Hallermund (born March 18, 1865 in Sehlendorf ; † April 14, 1957 in Weissenhaus ) was a German vice admiral and from 1911 to 1935 court marshal of Wilhelm II.

Life

origin

Oskar comes from the old Pomeranian noble family of the von Platen-Hallermund . He was a son of Count Karl Ernst Felix von Platen-Hallermund (1810-1887) from his second marriage to Louise, née Freiin von Hollen (1833-1895). Karl Graf von Platen-Hallermund , governor of the provincial parliament of Schleswig-Holstein , was his brother.

Imperial Navy and military governor of the imperial sons

Platen-Hallermund joined the Imperial Navy on April 20, 1882 as a cadet . First he completed his basic training on the sailing frigate Niobe and then came from September 14, 1882 to March 31, 1883 at the naval school. Subsequently, Platen-Hallermund took part in a weapons training course on the artillery training ship Mars , before he was transferred to the tank frigate Germany , where he was appointed midshipman on May 15, 1883 . This was followed by his transfer on October 2, 1883 to the covered corvette Prinz Adalbert , with whom Platen-Hallermund undertook a world tour that took him around Africa to China and Japan , on to Hawaii , Chile and Mauritius . There he disembarked on July 4, 1885 in Port Louis and started his journey home on a steamer .

After returning home, he went back to the naval school. From there, Platen-Hallermund was transferred as a company officer to the Second Shipyard Division in Wilhelmshaven . On-board assignments followed from April 1, 1887, first on the cruiser corvette Ariadne , then on the artillery training ship Mars and, after his promotion to lieutenant at sea on April 20, 1889, from April 24, 1889 to September 24, 1890 as an officer on watch on the ironclad Prussia . Then he was made available to the II. Naval Inspection and Platen-Hallermund began to leave the country to serve on the cruiser frigate Leipzig at the East Asian station . Here he was transferred to the cruiser frigate Alexandrine on April 11, 1891 and used as an officer on watch. On May 20, 1893, he disembarked in Cape Town and, on his return to Germany, was placed at the disposal of the chief of the North Sea naval station .

He then acted from August 14, 1893 to April 15, 1895 as a leader in the Marinedetachement Berlin. For five months, Platen-Hallermund was given command of the torpedo boat S 55 before he was then a watch and navigation officer on the Imperial Yacht Hohenzollern . In this function he had become a lieutenant captain on October 21, 1895 . At the same time, Platen-Hallermund graduated from the Naval Academy in Kiel from October 1, 1896 to March 31, 1897 and from October 9, 1897 to March 31, 1898, the I. and II. Coetus.

On December 13, 1898, he was appointed the Emperor's wing adjutant . As such, from August 14th, 1899, he was also the deputy governor of the youngest emperor's sons, Prince August Wilhelm and Oskar von Prussia , in the Plön Prinzenhaus , after his predecessor from the 1st Guards Regiment walked there , Lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauch , suddenly died. Platen-Hallermund held the position in the Prinzenhaus until August 22, 1901. He also served as first officer on the ship of the line Wörth from October 1 to November 24, 1901 . In the same function he was then transferred to the ships of the line Saxony and Emperor Charlemagne . On September 30, 1902, the Korvettenkapitän (since March 15, 1902) disembarked, embarked on the journey to Hong Kong and there became the commandant of the gunboat Iltis . Platen-Hallermund led this command until November 25, 1903. Returned to Germany, he was employed as first adjutant in the inspection of the naval education system. After his promotion to frigate captain on March 30, 1906, he was given command of the small cruiser Hamburg on September 29, 1906 . After only a year he gave up command and was instead appointed commander of the liner Kaiser Wilhelm II and shortly afterwards promoted to sea captain on November 9, 1907 . For the next three years, Platen-Hallermund acted from October 1, 1908 to October 10, 1911 as the commander of the Kaiser-Yacht Hohenzollern .

By that date, he was the then simultaneous ceremony character as a rear admiral for disposition and à la suite provided the Navy.

Court Marshal Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Platen-Hallermund entered court service and became court marshal of the emperor in Berlin and Potsdam. He retained this position after the end of the monarchy and followed Wilhelm II into exile in Doorn . On April 1, 1935, the former emperor released him from his duties and dismissed him as court marshal.

At the beginning of the First World War , Platen-Hallermund was reactivated as a ZD officer and made available to the shipyard department until January 1915. In 1915 and 1916 he was temporarily available to the Marine Corps Flanders , but without having received an active command. On March 22, 1916 he was awarded the character of Vice Admiral.

family

Platen-Hallermund married Countess Armgard zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1877–1912), daughter of Reichstag President Udo Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode and his wife Elisabeth, née Countess von Arnim-Boitzenburg , a lady-in-waiting of Empress Auguste Viktorias . After the death of his first wife, he married Sophie Countess zu Solms-Wildenfels (* 1877), daughter of the Prussian Colonel Otto Graf zu Solms-Wildenfels and his wife Anne, née Countess von Bentinck , in 1915, and they divorced in 1922.

The first marriage had a son, the second marriage three daughters and a son.

Awards

literature

Carl Gustav von Platen: History of the family von Platen. Part II, 1966, p. 395 f.
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 3-7648-1700-3 , pp. 48-49.

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME	Platen-Hallermund, Oskar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Platen-Hallermund, Oskar Rudolf Karl Marius Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German naval officer, most recently vice admiral; Court Marshal of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schlendorf
DATE OF DEATH	April 14, 1957
Place of death	Oldenburg

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