SMS Oldenburg (1910)
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The SMS Oldenburg was a large-line ship of the Helgoland class of the Imperial Navy , named after the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . The forerunner of the name was the ironclad Oldenburg , which was removed from the list of warships on January 13, 1912.
history
The launch of the Oldenburg took place on June 30, 1910 in the presence of Grand Duke Friedrich August von Oldenburg . His daughter Sophie Charlotte von Oldenburg , wife of the emperor's son Prince Eitel Friedrich, was baptized . The ship was assigned to the 1st Squadron under the command of Vice Admiral Hugo von Pohl and later Vice Admiral von Lans.
In contrast to the British view, the protection of the ship was in the foreground on the German side, the armament in second place. Since that time, the strength of the belt armor on the German capital ships was roughly equivalent to the caliber of the heavy artillery. The correctness of this principle of optimal protection proved itself in the war in the sea battles on the Doggerbank and off the Skagerrak , from which almost all German battlecruisers and battleships returned despite some extremely severe hit damage. Their British opponents, on the other hand, suffered considerable losses, which were only compensated by the large number of ships. Most of the British ships were lost in ammunition chamber explosions because their weak armor was penetrated by German shells.
The ships of the Helgoland class took up twelve guns of caliber 30.5 cm in six twin towers , of which two each on port and starboard , that is only the Endtürme were on the centreline . This was due to the height of the piston steam engines used , which largely took up the space between the four wing towers.
Between 1914 and 1918, the Oldenburg took part in missions in the North and Baltic Seas, including the Skagerrak Battle on May 31 and June 1, 1916.
According to a note in the news for town and country dated February 22, 1915, a nail picture , the iron heater , was nailed on the Oldenburg to collect donations .
Commanders
from 1916 to 1918 sea captain Heinrich Löhlein (1871–1930)
Whereabouts
In the Treaty of Versailles , the Oldenburg was awarded as the reparation ship M Japan . Since the Japanese had no use for the ship, it was delivered in 1920, but remained in European waters and was scrapped in Dordrecht in 1921 .
literature
- Siegfried Breyer: Battleships and battle cruisers 1905–1970 . JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-88199-474-2 , p. 287 f .
- Fritz-Otto Busch : Liner Oldenburg. This time it got serious . SOS. Fate of German Ships, No. 52, Munich 1954.
- Erich Gröner , 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. 48 .
- Alfred G. Nagel: Oldenburg. Three generations of warships. Hamburg 1913.
- Keyword: Liner Oldenburg. in: Hans H. Hildebrandt, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present. 7 volumes in one volume, Ratingen o. J. [1983], Vol. 5, p. 31f.
