SMS Augsburg
 |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
.svg){kind=small}
The SMS Augsburg was a small cruiser of the Imperial Navy , which was used against the Russian fleet in the First World War .
history
During its trial period, the Augsburg took part in the rescue and recovery work for the sunken submarine U 3 on January 17, 1911 . On February 24, 1911, she became a test ship for the torpedo inspection . In 1912 and 1913 she served as an artillery test ship. For this purpose, the Augsburg was rebuilt at the Imperial Shipyard in Danzig . On May 20, 1914, she visited the Scottish city of Dundee . Captain Fischer was greeted by the Lord Provost and "the greatest friendliness was shown". From June 1914 she provided outpost and security services in the Baltic Sea.
At the beginning of the First World War, the Augsburg , together with the small cruiser Magdeburg , laid mines in the eastern Baltic Sea, bombarded the city of Libau and made advances in the Gulf of Finland . In four other such ventures there was a battle with the Russian destroyer Novik on September 2, 1914, and with the two Russian armored cruisers Bayan and Pallada on September 6, 1914 . When the great cruiser Friedrich Carl ran into two mines about 30 nautical miles from Memel on the morning of November 17, 1914 during a planned German attack on the Russian naval base in Libau, which was secured by minefields , and had to be abandoned, the Augsburg took on the surviving crew. In a further advance in January 1915, the Augsburg itself was hit by a mine and had eight deaths. The ship reached Stettin under its own power , where it was makeshift repairs. After a thorough overhaul at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg , the Augsburg was ready for use again in April 1915.
On July 2, 1915, Augsburg took part in the so-called Gotland Raid . This was followed by several forays and mining operations with the small cruiser Strasbourg and the mine ships Rügen and Germany . In July 1916, one such company in the Gulf of Riga ran aground. The Augsburg therefore had to go to Kiel to the Kaiserliche Werft for repairs. At the same time, the 10.5 cm guns were exchanged for six 15 cm cannons and the bridge was rebuilt.
In April 1917 the Augsburg was clear again and continued to operate in the Baltic Sea. In October she participated in the occupation of the Baltic Islands ( Operation Albion ). After the armistice with Soviet Russia , Augsburg was assigned to the submarine inspection in January 1918. Since July 20, 1918, she has replaced the small cruiser Stettin as the lead ship of the mining and clearing associations. Her berth was now Cuxhaven , where she was decommissioned on December 17, 1918.
In November 1918, revolutionary sailors from the Cuxhaven Workers 'and Soldiers' Council briefly assumed command of the ship. On the orders of the Workers and Soldiers Council, the Augsburg, now flying the flag of the November Revolutionaries , drove up the Elbe to support the implementation of the revolutionary efforts in Hamburg.
Whereabouts
According to the terms of the Versailles Treaty , the Augsburg had to be removed from the fleet list and delivered to Japan on September 3, 1920 as the reparation ship Y. Since the Japanese had no use for the ship they were awarded, they had it scrapped in Dordrecht in 1922 .
Commanders
| November 1910 to March 1911 | Corvette Captain / Frigate Captain Ernst-Oldwig von Natzmer |
| March to September 1911 | Frigate captain / sea captain Johannes von Karpf |
| October 1911 to July 1912 | Frigate Captain Heinrich Rohardt |
| July to August 1912 | Frigate Captain Victor Reclam |
| October 1912 to October 1914 | Frigate captain / sea captain Andreas Fischer |
| October 1914 to January 1917 | Corvette Captain / Frigate Captain Johannes Horn |
| January to July 1917 | Corvette Captain / Frigate Captain Siegfried Westerkamp |
| July 1917 to March 1918 | Frigate Captain Max Lutter |
| March to May 1918 | Frigate Captain Fritz Müller-Palm |
| May to July 1918 | Frigate Captain Eduard Bartels |
| July to September 1918 | Kapitänleutnant Max Greus (deputy) |
| September to December 1918 | Corvette Captain Bernhard Bobsien |
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung and Martin Maass: The German Warships 1815–1945 Volume 1 . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 .
Footnotes
- ↑ Dundee, Perth, Forfar, and Fife's People's Journal - Saturday 23 May 1914
- ↑ Rosentreter, Robert .: Blue Jackets in November storm: red sailors 1918/1919 . Dietz, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-320-01063-8 . P. 78ff.