Senator Schröder (ship, 1908)
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The Senator Schröder was a German trawler , who in the First and Second World War by the Imperial Navy and the Navy as a patrol boat was used. It was put into service on March 20, 1908. In April 1920, during the Ruhr uprising, KAPD members kidnapped him to Russia to bring two party couriers to see Lenin .
Use in the First World War
The Senator Schröder was in on December 23, 1914 Vorpostenflottille Flanders put into service. No details are known from her period of service. It was on 10 October 1918 as blockship before Ostend sunk .
Interwar period
The steamer was lifted, repaired and put back into service as a fish steamer by Cuxhavener Hochseefischerei AG in 1919. On April 21, 1920 Senator Schröder ran from Cuxhaven on a fishing trip to Iceland . The day before, crew member Hermann Knüfken had smuggled two KAPD officials, Franz Jung and Jan Appel , on board, who were to be transported to Russia as couriers.
On the day of departure, Knüfken, together with Jung and Appel and some sympathetic crew members, took over the steamer at gunpoint and locked the ship's command under Captain Johannes Gewald. The kidnappers managed to navigate Senator Schröder around the North Cape towards Murmansk . On April 30, 1920, she met a warship of the Red Workers 'and Peasants' Fleet just off the Murman coast . With the help of a pilot , she entered the fishing port of Alexandrowsk on May 1 and transferred to Murmansk on the same day.
The ship was subordinated to the Russian naval commissioner in Murmansk without changing the crew. Two weeks later, on May 14th, the ship received an order to go fishing. The remaining crew took the opportunity, got away and drove to Tromsø , where they reported to the German consul on May 17th. The ship's command set in Russia began its return journey to Germany on June 24th.
Knüfken, who was now being searched for by an arrest warrant , was arrested in 1920 after returning illegally to Germany and sentenced by the Hamburg Regional Court to five years ' imprisonment in 1921 for mutiny and serious robbery , but released again in 1923.
In May 1923, was Senator Schröder under the new name Victoire in Belgium as a research vessel into service.
World War II and later
On June 4, 1941, she was put into service as German war booty by the Kriegsmarine as the V 427 outpost boat , renamed V 1337 on October 10, 1942 and V 1419 on November 1, 1944 . It was probably sold by the Belgian authorities to the Rederij Letzer in Antwerp on August 19, 1945 . The further whereabouts are unknown.
literature
- Hubert van den Berg, Andreas Hansen: Franz Jung and The Abduction of the Fish Steamer Senator Schröder , Karin Kramer-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-87956-245-8
- Wolfgang Walter: German fish steamer. Technology, development, use, ship register. Carlsen Verlag / Die Hanse, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-551-88517-6 .
- Erich Gröner u. a .: The German warships 1815-1945, vol. 8/1: river vehicles, Ujäger, outpost boats, auxiliary minesweepers, coastal protection associations (part 1) , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-7637-4807-5 , p. 176f .
- Hermann Knüfken: From Kiel to Leningrad. Memories of a Revolutionary Sailor 1917 - 1930 , edited by Andreas Hansen and Dieter Nelles, BasisDruck Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 83-102, ISBN 978-3-86163-110-1
- Torsten Thees: The kidnapping of the fish steamer Senator Schröder , in: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund at the mouth of the Elbe and Weser, yearbook 69, 1990, Bremerhaven 1991, pp. 413-416
Web links
- Torsten Thees (former head of the Cuxhaven City Archives ) on the events: http://www.cuxhaven.de/staticsite/staticsite.php?menuid=371&topmenu=287 (with photo of Senator Schröder)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gröner, p. 177
- ↑ Thees, Die Entführung des Fischdampfers Senator Schröder , p. 414, ders., In: http://www.cuxhaven.de/staticsite/staticsite.php?menuid=371&topmenu=287
- ↑ Gröner, p. 177
- ↑ Gröner, p. 177