SMS Hanover
 SMS Hannover on a postcard
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The SMS Hannover was a ship of the line of the Imperial Navy .
She was launched on September 29, 1905 at the Kaiserliche Werft in Wilhelmshaven . The ship belonged to the Germany class with its sister ships Germany , Pomerania , Silesia and Schleswig-Holstein .
From 1921 she was also in the service of the Reichsmarine . In 1931 the little modernized ship was taken out of service, canceled in 1936 and demolished from 1944.
history
The Hanover belonged before the war to II. Squadron under Vice Admiral Reinhard Scheer .
During the First World War , the Hannover took part in the Battle of the Skagerrak with her sister ships . She fired eight 28-cm and 22 17-cm projectiles. On November 30, 1916, the remaining ships of the II. Squadron retired from the deep sea fleet . Hanover was then used for secondary tasks and was mainly used to guard the Sund until the end of the war in 1918 .
Service in the Reichsmarine
The armistice came into force on November 11, 1918. The modern German ships had to be delivered to Scapa Flow , while the rest had to be disarmed. On the day of the armistice, the Hanover ran to Swinoujscie , but returned on 14/15. November back to Kiel with the Schlesien . The Hannover was decommissioned on December 17, 1918.
Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles of June 21, 1919, Germany was allowed to keep a fleet of eight old liners. In addition to the Hanover , Schleswig-Holstein and Silesia, these should be three ships of the Germany class and the five ships of the Braunschweig class .
The Hannover was the first of these old liners to come back into service in February 1921 and became the flagship of the Baltic Sea forces with her home port in Swinoujscie, but moved to Kiel in 1922. In 1923 the Reichsmarine created a fleet command, and the Braunschweig became the fleet flagship. In October 1925, the Hanover relocated to Wilhelmshaven. On May 14, 1926, she took part with all of the large ships in the fleet command on an “Atlantic and Spain voyage” that lasted until June 17. It was the first big trip of an association of the Reichsmarine. On March 1, 1927, the Hannover was decommissioned, while at the same time the significantly modernized sister ship Schlesien was put into service.
With new tubular masts, but still with three chimneys, the Hannover was put back into service in February 1930 to replace the Alsace . In September 1931 she was finally decommissioned.
In 1936 the Hannover was finally deleted from the list of warships. A planned conversion to a target ship for aircraft has been abandoned. Finally, the demolition in Bremerhaven began in May 1944 and was not completed until October 1946. The ship's bell is now in the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden .
Commanders
| October 1, 1907 to September 1908 | Sea captain Hugo Kinderling |
| September 1908 to October 1909 | Sea captain Friedrich Gädecke |
| October 1909 to March 2, 1911 | Frigate captain / sea captain Arnold Marcks |
| March 4, 1911 to April 11, 1913 | Sea captain Hermann Alberts |
| April 12, 1913 to July 1917 | Sea captain Wilhelm Heine |
| July to September 1917 | Corvette Captain Fritz Albrecht (deputy) |
| September to November 1917 | Frigate Captain Karl Windmüller |
| November 1917 to July 1918 | Frigate captain / sea captain Max Leonhardi |
| July 1918 | Frigate Captain Carl Velten |
| July to December 1918 | Frigate Captain Karl Windmüller |
| February 10, 1921 to September 1922 | Sea captain Edmund Schulz |
| September 1922 to September 30, 1923 | Sea captain Ivan Oldekop |
| October 1, 1923 to March 31, 1925 | Sea captain Albrecht Freiherr von Freyberg-Eisenberg-Allmendingen |
| April 1, 1925 to September 23, 1925 | Sea captain Friedrich Brutzer |
| September 24, 1925 to March 1, 1927 | Sea captain Werner Tillessen |
| February 25, 1930 to September 29, 1930 | Sea captain Siegfried Maßmann |
| September 30, 1930 to September 25, 1931 | Frigate Captain Heinrich Gebhardt |
Known crew members
- Ernst von Weizsäcker (1882–1951), naval officer and diplomat , State Secretary of the Foreign Office and brigade leader of the General SS
- Max-Eckart Wolff (1902–1988), was from 1957 to 1963 as a flotilla admiral in command of the fleet base
literature
- Warships and naval battles. From the first armored ships to today , Verlag Gondrom 1976, p. 59, ISBN 3-8112-0023-2
- Gröner, Erich / Dieter Jung / Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . tape 1 : Armored ships, ships of the line, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, gunboats . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 , p. 44-46 .
- Hildebrand, Hans H. / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 4 : Ship biographies from Greif to Kaiser . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen (licensed edition by Koehler's Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, approx. 1990).
- Koop, Gerhard / Klaus-Peter Schmolke: Ship classes and ship types of the German Navy . tape 10 : The armored ships and ships of the line of the Brandenburg, Kaiser Friedrich III, Wittelsbach, Braunschweig and Germany classes . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-7637-6211-6 .
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Footnotes
- ↑ Gröner, p. 22