Reinhold von Werner

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Reinhold von Werner (born May 10, 1825 in Weferlingen , †  February 26, 1909 in Wiesbaden ) was a German vice admiral and military writer.

Life

Werner began his career in Hamburg in 1842 on a merchant ship and joined the German Navy in 1849 as an auxiliary officer . After their dissolution in 1852 he went to the Prussian service as a lieutenant at sea and in 1856 became a lieutenant captain .

As commander of the transport ship Elbe , Werner participated in the Prussian East Asia expedition from 1859 to 1862 .

When the German-Danish War broke out in 1864, he was given command of the steam corvette SMS Nymphe , with which he was able to distinguish himself in the battle near Jasmund . He was then promoted to corvette captain and was given command of the armored ship SMS Arminius in 1866 . With this ship he took the Hanoverian fortifications on the Elbe , Weser and Ems during the German War .

Werner was Oberwerftdirektor in Danzig between 1867 and 1869 , then received command of the ironclad SMS Kronprinz and was appointed captain at sea in 1870 . Together with the Crown Prince , Werner guarded the Weser and Jade estuaries during the Franco-German War as part of the main squadron of the Navy of the North German Confederation , but did not take part in any battles. In 1873 he was sent to the West Indies as head of the Reichsgeschwader with five ships and was then supposed to do a circumnavigation with this squadron. Werner's flagship was the armored frigate SMS Friedrich Carl . In the meantime, however, the Third Carlist War had broken out in Spain and Werner was called to the Spanish Atlantic coast to take care of the protection of the German population with his squadron. Here Werner took the gunboat Vigilante, which was occupied by the insurgents, on July 25, 1873, and on August 1, together with the English tank frigate Swiftsure, the tank frigate Vitoria and the wooden frigate Almansa , disarming the entire crew of 1,400 men.

Werner's approach was not approved by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , so he was dismissed from his position as squadron commander in order to be tried before a court martial for exceeding his powers . Here, however, he received a unanimous acquittal . Werner was then appointed Oberwerftdirektor von Wilhelmshaven and in 1875 promoted to rear admiral, at the same time also appointed chief of the naval station of the Baltic Sea .

By confirming the report of the Expert Commission on the fall of the Great Elector , he withdrew the disfavour of Minister v. Stosch to and demanded and received on October 15, 1878 his departure. He moved to Wiesbaden, received the character of Vice-Admiral on May 10, 1898 and was raised to hereditary nobility on January 18, 1901. Werner last lived in Wiesbaden at Martinstrasse 2.

Works

  • Atlas of the Sea. Reprint publishing house. Leipzig. New edition of the original edition from 1871. ISBN 3-8262-2311-X .
  • The Prussian expedition to China, Japan and Siam. Leipzig (2nd A., 1873).
  • (published anonymously): The Prussian Navy. Their participation in the German-Danish war, their meaning and future. Berlin (1864).
  • The book of the German fleet. Bielefeld (August 8, 1902).
  • The school of the sea. Leipzig (1866).
  • The book of the German fleet. 1866.
  • Lake pictures. Bielefeld (1876).
  • Memories and pictures from sea life. Berlin (1880). ( Digitized version and full text in the German Text Archive ) (6. A., 1898).
  • Famous sailors. 2 volumes. Berlin (1882-84).
  • Peter of Danzig. Historical story from the time of the Hanseatic League. 1882.
  • At sea and on land. Berlin (1884).
  • Three months on the slave coast. Stuttgart (1885).
  • Dirk Mallinger. Leipzig (2nd edition, 1888).
  • On distant seas and at home. Berlin (1893).
  • New seaman's books. Berlin (1895 ff.)
  • Salt water. Stories from sea life. Berlin (2nd A., 1897).
  • Pictures from the history of German naval warfare from Germanicus to Kaiser Wilhelm II. Munich (1898).
  • Admiral Karpfanger. A story from Hamburg's past. 1900.
  • Germany's honor in the ocean. 1902.
  • A first sea voyage. Berlin.
  • In the boat on the ocean and other stories. Berlin.

In 1864 Werner founded the magazine Hansa, magazine for sea and rescue services .

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 3: P-Z. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1700-3 , pp. 536-537.
  • Franz Neubert (Ed.): German Contemporary Lexicon. Leipzig 1905.

Web links

Wikisource: Reinhold von Werner  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meyers Konversationslexikon . Volume 16: Uralsk - Zz . Fourth edition. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna, 1890, p. 540 ( retrobibliothek.de [accessed on January 20, 2015]).
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Reinhold von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German vice admiral and military writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Weferlingen
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1909
Place of death Wiesbaden