Richard Beitzen

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Richard Beitzen ( February 24, 1882 - March 30, 1918 in the North Sea ) was a German naval officer , crew 01 , most recently lieutenant captain , commander of the torpedo boat G 87 and chief of the 14th torpedo boat semi-flotilla in the First World War .

Life

The 14th torpedo boat semi-flotilla got into a British minefield about 100 nautical miles northwest of Heligoland when returning from a control voyage in the German Bight . The torpedo boats G 93 and G 94 were hit by mines and G 94 immediately began to sink. Beitzen ran with his guide boat G 87 to the wreckers to save their crews , and G 87 also ran into a mine . Within 50 minutes, all three boats sank to position 54 ° 54 '  N , 6 ° 25'  E : G 94 at 5:40 a.m. with 13 dead, G 87 at 6:20 a.m. with 43 dead and G 93 at 6:30 a.m. with 10 dead.

Honors

On January 21, 1918, Beitzen was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Royal Prussian House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords .

The German Navy named its destroyer Richard Beitzen , the fourth and last of the destroyer class 1934 , after him.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke: The German Destroyers 1935-1945. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn, 1995, ISBN 3-7637-5940-9
personal data
SURNAME Beitzen, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, most recently lieutenant captain
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1882
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1918
Place of death North Sea