Reinhold von Fischer-Loßainen

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Gustav Siegfried Reinhold Fischer , from Fischer-Loßainen since 1910 (born June 30, 1870 in Groß Hubnicken ; † September 12, 1940 at Gut Loßainen ) was a German rear admiral and naval attaché .

Life

Military career

Reinhold Fischer was born civilly as the son of Gustav Fischer and joined the Imperial Navy as a cadet on April 13, 1888 . After his basic training on land and on the training ship SMS Niobe , he came to the naval school for the first time . He then continued his training on various ships and returned from October 1, 1891 to September 30, 1892 one more time at the naval school. After the successful completion in September 1892, he received his officer license as a second lieutenant at sea on October 17, 1892 with senior service from May 12, 1891 . After various on-board commands, Fischer-Loßainen completed the 1st and 2nd Coetus at the Naval Academy from October 1899 to the end of April 1901 and was in the meantime in command of the torpedo boat S 61 for two months .

Following this, Fischer served as a navigation officer on the small cruiser SMS Niobe until the end of September 1901 and then served as an admiral staff officer in the staff of the Baltic Sea Station . On September 28, 1904, he was transferred as a navigation officer to the liner SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II. There he was promoted to corvette captain on March 30, 1906 , and served as first officer on the liner SMS Deutschland for one year from September 26, 1906 . Fischer was then assigned to the Reichsmarineamt in Berlin, where he was initially employed in the Military Department (AI) of the General Naval Department until September 1910. Within the authority, he then moved to the shipyard department and headed the department for personal details of the technical and operational officials of the shipyards (BI). In this capacity he became a frigate captain on November 19, 1910 . On September 25, 1911 he was given command again, became the commandant of the training ship SMS König Wilhelm and was also the commander of the ship boys division.

Marine attaché

With the assistance of the State Secretary of the Admiralty and Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930) took over fishing on 25 April 1913 sea captain the office of "Marine attaché for the Nordic countries". At that time, this post combined the care of the German Reich's marine political relations with Denmark , Norway , Russia and Sweden . It was initially based at the German embassy in Saint Petersburg. His direct superior was the chargé d'affaires of the embassy Friedrich Pourtalès (1853–1928). At that time, Bernhard von Eggeling (1872–1949) was a military attaché as a partner for the military reports . When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the embassy was closed and Fischer-Loßainen moved his official seat from Saint Petersburg to Stockholm , where he continued to deal with naval matters for Denmark, Norway and Sweden. He then had to give up the competence for Norway in October 1915 and that for Denmark in April 1918. However, he retained responsibility for Sweden until January 11, 1919.

During the First World War , Fischer came forward with plans to force Sweden into war by landing Finnish hunters on the Åland Islands . However, this plan ultimately failed due to the objection of General Erich von Falkenhayn , the focus of German warfare in the west and the hope of being able to conclude a separate peace with Russia. Shortly before the defeat of Imperial Germany in World War I, he ended his assignment as a naval attaché in Sweden. For a short time from here he was still active as head of the German delegation for clearing the fortress on the Aaland Islands. He then returned to Germany.

On January 11, 1919 Fischer was retired from active service and was given the character of Rear Admiral on August 30, 1919 with the seniority of the day of his dismissal .

family

Fischer married Edith von Rath (* 1881) in Mehlem on October 3, 1905. The daughter Erika-Renate (* 1907) and the son Horst-Reinhold (* 1909) emerged from the marriage, who later became Legation Councilor 1st class in the Foreign Office and the German Consul General in Liège .

Fischer died on September 12, 1940 in Loßainen in the East Prussian district of Rössel.

Honors

On June 12, 1910, Fischer was raised to hereditary nobility by King Wilhelm II for his services . Based on his family's estates in the East Prussian region of Warmia-Masuria, he chose the name Fischer-Loßainen.

Gustav Fischer had already acquired Gut Loßainen , a 628 hectare area with a windmill, brickworks and mausoleum, around 1885. The son systematically expanded the property , which is located near the town and rural community of Rößel , from the end of the 19th century: for example, he founded a majora there in 1910 and probably at the same time began building Loßainen Castle, which has survived to the present day is now owned by the University of Warmia-Masuria in Olsztyn (Allenstein).

In addition to his elevation to the nobility, Fischer had received several awards in the course of his military career and received the following medals and decorations :

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 1: A-G. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1988, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 , pp. 339-340.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Noble houses B. Volume XII, p. 368, Volume 64 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1977, ISSN  0435-2408 , p. 107.
  2. ^ Klaus Volker Giessler, The Institution of the Navy Attaché in the Empire, Harald Boeldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein, 1976
  3. ↑ Military History Research Office (ed.): Military history. Historical Education Journal. 4/2004, p. 12. ("Perhaps a northern secondary theater of war will develop. If then, contrary to expectations, Sweden can quietly watch the Finnish Freikorps bleed to death in Åland, Germany has at least done everything it can for the moment the solution of the Scandinavian-Finnish question in the Germanic sense was possible. ")
  4. ^ Genealogical pocket book of the aristocratic houses. 1915. Ninth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1914, p. 253.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Marine-Kabinett (ed.): Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1914, p. 114.
  6. ↑ a b c Marine-Kabinett (Ed.): Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy for the year 1918. Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin 1918, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer-Loßainen, Reinhold von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer-Loßainen, Gustav Siegfried Reinhold von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rear admiral and naval attaché
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Big nod
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1940
Place of death Good Loßainen