SMS Odin
 SMS Odin on a postcard
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SMS Odin was the seventh ship of the Siegfried class , a class of eight coastal armored ships of the Imperial Navy .
construction
The ironclad V was on April 15, 1893, the last ship of its class of the Imperial Shipyard in Gdansk on keel laid. As with the sister ship Aegir, the construction followed a design that was slightly different from that of the type ship , which incorporated the experiences made with the units already in service. For the Danzig shipyard, the ship was the first order for the construction of a new ironclad . On November 3, 1894, five months before the ironclad T , the ship was ready to be launched . The upper yard director Graf von Haugwitz christened the new building here after a Germanic deity in the name of Odin . The further expansion dragged on until September 1896.
commitment
Peace time
On September 22, 1896, the Odin was first put into service. Two days later the acceptance test drive took place, which failed without any complaints. After the final equipment work and test drives, the ship was decommissioned in Kiel on October 14th and placed in the reserve division of the Baltic Sea.
On July 26, 1898, the Odin was reactivated. The ship joined the II. Squadron, which was formed for the autumn maneuvers from the reserve divisions of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. The Aegir became the flagship of the squadron . With this the Odin undertook a training trip to Copenhagen and Christiania in December . Another trip followed in 1899, during which, in addition to Copenhagen, Aabenraa and Swinoujscie were called. This year made Odin said in Kattegat fixed gekom menem NDL -Dampfer Empress Maria Theresia help. In June, the SMS Hansa , which had run aground in the Great Belt, was towed free together with the Aegir .
On March 20, 1900, Odin and Friedrich Carl carried out experiments with wireless telegraphy, which was still new at the time . In June, the coastal defense ship was at the reclamation of prior Szczecin laid-down HAPAG -Dampfers Germany involved. During the autumn maneuvers, the Odin again belonged to the temporarily formed II Squadron. The ship was then moved to the second parent ship of the Reserve Division of the Baltic Sea and on October 10th to the new main mooring port in Gdansk. After various training runs and necessary overhauls, the Odin took part in the Kiel Week in June 1901 . From August 1, 1901, exercises took place in the Association of the Reserve Division, which again belonged to the II Squadron during the autumn maneuvers. After completing the maneuvers, the Odin was decommissioned on September 21 in Gdansk. The Imperial Shipyard there was converted in the following months, which was also carried out on the other units of the Siegfried class. The ship received an 8.4 m long middle section, which increased the total length to 86.15 m. The coal capacity and thus the range of the ship could be greatly increased by the conversion.
On October 2, 1903, the Odin was put back into service and assigned to the now permanent II Squadron of the Active Battle Fleet. With this, the ship made a visiting trip to Scotland and Norway. On the way to Lerwick , the torpedo boat SMS S 98 was rammed by the Odin and badly damaged. After the autumn maneuvers in 1904, the Braunschweig replaced the Odin in the II Squadron. The coastal armored ship was decommissioned on October 10th in Gdansk and from then on belonged to the reserve squadron of the Baltic Sea. A last deployment in peacetime took place from July 22 to September 15, 1909 for the maneuvers of the deep-sea fleet.
First World War
After the outbreak of the First World War , the Odin was reactivated on August 12, 1914 and assigned to the VI, formed from the ships of the Siegfried class. Squadron assigned to Rear Admiral Richard Eckermann . After some individual and association exercises, the Odin was used from September 15 in the outpost service on the Jade , Weser and Elbe estuaries . After the dissolution of VI on August 31, 1915. Squadron the ship belonged to the port flotilla of the Elbe without changing anything in the area of responsibility. On January 9, 1916, the now completely outdated Odin was withdrawn from active service and decommissioned in Danzig a week later. The rest of the war, the ship was used as a residential hulk for the I. Ubootsflotille, from July 25, 1917 for the III. Submarine flotilla used in Wilhelmshaven .
After the end of the war, the Odin was used from March 28th to October 9th, 1919 as a living quarters and by-ship for the IV. During this time there was also the last official commissioning.
Whereabouts
The Odin was removed from the list of warships on December 6, 1919. The ship was sold to the Arnold Bernstein shipping company and converted into a motor cargo ship in Rüstringen in 1922 . As such, the Odin was used under an unchanged name. In 1935 the ship was finally scrapped.
The large liner SMS Prinzregent Luitpold , launched in 1912, was built to replace the Odin . It was to be the first large German warship to have a diesel engine , which, together with two sets of turbines , provided propulsion. However, since the engine was not ready to ship in time, this project was not carried out.
Commanders
| September 22 to October 14, 1896 | Corvette Captain Johannes Wallmann |
| July 26 to September 1898 | Corvette Captain Eduard Gercke |
| September 1898 to February 1900 | Corvette Captain Paul Walther |
| February to March 1900 | Kapitänleutnant Wilhelm Souchon (deputy) |
| March to May 1900 | Corvette Captain Wilde |
| May to June 1900 | Corvette Captain Malte von Schimmelmann |
| June to September 1900 | Corvette Captain Wilde |
| October 1900 to April 1901 | Corvette Captain Schwartzkopf |
| April to May 1901 | Corvette Captain von Witzleben |
| May to September 1901 | Corvette Captain / Frigate Captain Schwartzkopf |
| October 2, 1903 to October 10, 1904 | Corvette Captain / Frigate Captain Henkel |
| July 22 to September 15, 1909 | Corvette Captain / Frigate Captain Ernst Goette |
| August 1914 | Captain Friedrich Schmid (deputy) |
| August 1914 to September 1915 | Frigate Captain Otto Rössler |
| September 1915 to January 1916 | Frigate Captain Mysing |
| March 28 to October 9, 1919 | unknown |
literature
- 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. 34-36 .
- Hildebrand, Hans H. / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 6 : Ship biographies from Lützow to Prussia . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 186-188 .
Web links
- More pictures of Odin
- Photo of the cargo ship "Aegir" or "Odin" on the Kiel Canal , accessed on May 5, 2019