Richard Dittmer

Richard Dittmer (born December 18, 1840 in Demmin , † September 10, 1925 in Berlin ) was a German rear admiral and naval writer.

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Dittmer's maritime career began in 1856 as a cabin boy on the barque Johann Martin . In 1862 he passed the helmsman examination at the navigation school in Grabow . After visiting the Naval Cadet Institute , he was accepted into the active naval officer corps of the Prussian Navy as a sub-lieutenant in 1865 and deployed on various ships. From 1878 he was a lieutenant commander head of department in the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty , and from 1880 as director of equipment in the Imperial Shipyard in Wilhelmshaven effective in 1885 as a Captain for disposition to be made. From 1885 he worked as surveying director in the command of the naval station of the Baltic Sea , from 1893 to 1895 as coastal district inspector in coastal district office III. In 1898 Dittmer led an expedition of the research ship Olga to Spitsbergen on behalf of the Reichsmarineamt . In 1902 he was given the character of rear admiral. Dittmer was the author and editor of numerous nautical publications.

His grave is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf in Berlin.

Fonts

• The deviation of the compasse on board iron ships, adapted from English sources , Braunschweig 1872
• Catechism of the German Navy (= Weber's Illustrated Catechisms No. 101), Leipzig 1890; 2nd edition, Leipzig 1899
• Catechism of the German Merchant Navy (= Weber's Illustrated Catechisms No. 41), Leipzig 1892
• Handbook of Maritime Studies , Leipzig 1894
• The Arctic Ocean. Based on diaries and recordings during a voyage with His Majesty's ship "Olga" [in 1898], Hanover-Leipzig 1901
• German deep sea, sea and coastal fishing in the 19th century. until 1902 , Hanover-Leipzig 1902
• Rescue and aids in distress at sea as well as signs for the handling of sea fishing vessels and boats , 2nd edition Hanover-Leipzig 1903; 3.A. 1913
• Sea fishing vessels and boats with and without auxiliary machines (= Historische Schiffahrt Vol. 114), Hanover-Leipzig 1904 (with Harald von Buhl); Reprint Paderborn 2010; Russian translation by AP Sherkova, St.Petersburg 1906
• German Sea Fisheries Almanac for 1908 , Hanover 1908 (editor)
• Naval war history in its most important sections with consideration of naval tactics , Hanover-Leipzig 1907-1911 (with Alfred Stenzel)
• Motors and winches for sea and coastal fishing according to the competition of the German Sea Fisheries Association , 2 parts, Munich-Berlin 1911 (with G. Lieckfeld and Friedrich Romberg)
• Warfare at sea - doctrine of naval warfare . Supplementary volume, Hanover-Leipzig 1913 (with Alfred Stenzel and Hermann Kirchhoff)
• Sea fishing and the means to cure it . In: Marine-Rundschau 25 (1914), pp. 328-426
• Svalbard Handbook . Completed with News for Seafarers of May 27, 1916, published by the Reichs-Marine-Amt, Berlin 1916; Supplements from 1920–1926, Berlin 1935
• The Faroe Islands , 3rd A., Berlin 1918
• Iceland , 3rd A., Berlin 1919

literature

• Hans H. Hildebrand / Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945, Vol. 1, Osnabrück 1988, pp. 251-252. (with portrait fig.)