Paul Jaeschke

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Carl Otto Ferdinand Paul Jaeschke (born August 4, 1851 in Breslau ; † January 27, 1901 in Tsingtau ) was a German naval officer, most recently a sea captain and governor of the German protected area Kiautschou (February 19, 1899 - January 27, 1901).

P. Jaeschke - Governor of the German colony Kiautschou / Tsingtau
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Military career

Paul Jaeschke was born in Breslau as the son of a banker . He only attended grammar school up to the upper secondary level . Having passed the one-year examination, he joined the Navy of the North German Confederation on April 26, 1868 as a midshipman . From July 1868 to June 1869 he visited the African Atlantic Islands and the West Indies with the midshipman training ship Niobe . On November 18, 1875 he was promoted to lieutenant at sea and subsequently went through various land and sea assignments, which also included assignments abroad (for example in 1875 with the Augusta at the foreign station for the east coast of North America and the West Indies area). On April 16, 1881 he was promoted to lieutenant captain and consultant in the inspection of torpedo systems . From 1886 to 1888 Jaeschke was in command of the gunboat SMS Wolf at the East Asian station abroad. On November 15, 1888 he was promoted to corvette captain and in the same year commander of the torpedo department in Kiel . From 1892 to 1895 Jaeschke was head of the central department in the Reichsmarineamt . In 1895 he became a sea ​​captain . In April 1895 he became the commander of the armored frigate SMS Kaiser, which had been reclassified as a second class armored ship, and was sent to East Asia . SMS Kaiser became the flagship of the cruiser division under Rear Admiral Paul Hoffmann and visited Kiautschou Bay in the spring of 1896 . In May 1896 he was ordered back to Berlin to take over the foreign department in the naval high command . On October 10, 1898, Alfred von Tirpitz appointed him second governor of the Kiautschou lease area, but he did not arrive in Tsingtau until February 18, 1899 . Jaeschke died on January 27, 1901 of typhoid fever. He was buried in the European cemetery in Tsingtau.

family

Jaeschke was married twice. He met his first wife Helenita, nee von Lindemann, in St. Thomas in 1875 , she was the niece of the German consul Wantzelius. However, she died on July 16, 1893 in Hamburg. The marriage produced a son and a daughter. On March 24, 1900, Jaeschke married his second wife Helene (née Wollny) in Hong Kong - they had no children.

Others

  • He is the namesake of the ship Gouverneur Jaeschke .
  • The cape "Evelyn" at the south entrance of the Kiautschoubucht was renamed in his honor to cape "Jaeschke".

literature

  • Paul Jaeschke. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume II, p. 117 ( online ).

swell

  • Below, H. v. (Hrsg.): German Soldier's Hort - Illustrated magazine for the German army and people , Berlin 1899, publisher: Karl Siegismund

Web links

Commons : Paul Jaeschke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kiautschou - Tsingtau. deutsche-schutzgebiete.de. Retrieved November 14, 2017.


personal data
SURNAME Jaeschke, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jaeschke, Carl Otto Ferdinand Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1901
Place of death Tsingtau