Viktor Praefcke

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Viktor Praefcke

Viktor Praefcke , also Prefcke (born October 25, 1872 in Neustrelitz , † November 19, 1962 in Göttingen ) was a German doctor and medical officer , most recently in the character of an admiral doctor in the Navy .

Life

Praefcke was born as the son of the senior consistory councilor Victor Praefcke and his wife Lucie, b. Stein, born in Neustrelitz. He attended high school in Friedland (Mecklenburg) , where he passed his Abitur at Easter 1894 at the age of 21. From April 1, he did military service as a one-year volunteer and then studied medicine at the University of Rostock . On October 1, 1900, he joined the Imperial Navy as a doctor and completed various land and board commands. In addition, he was promoted on December 13, 1900 to naval junior doctor , on April 6, 1901 to naval assistant doctor and on March 28, 1903 to naval senior assistant doctor. From March 3 to May 27, 1904, Praefcke then traveled to the Kiautschou area, which was leased to the German Empire by the Chinese Empire, and was employed as a ship's doctor on the river gunboat SMS Vaterland until June 5, 1906 . On June 6, 1906, he was promoted to the naval medical officer and then returned to Germany. Here further land and board commands followed until Praefcke was appointed ship's doctor on March 23, 1909 on the large cruiser SMS Scharnhorst . Praefcke returned to East Asia with the Scharnhorst , since the ship was stationed in Tsingtau as the flagship of the East Asia Squadron from 1909 . Praefcke's service on board lasted until May 30, 1911. After that, he was at the disposal of the governor of Kiautschou and was employed in the fight against pulmonary plague and then in the Tsingtau naval hospital. On March 12, 1912, Praefcke was promoted to naval chief medical officer, at the same time he was a lecturer at the German-Chinese University in Tsingtau, which opened in October 1909 . During the mobilization at the beginning of the First World War , Praefcke was assigned to the III. Sea battalion and at the same time deployed during the siege of Tsingtau by the Imperial Japanese Army as a medical officer of the land front and as chief physician of the university hospital. Most recently, shortly before the surrender, he served as head of the government hospital. After the capitulation on November 7th, 1914, Praefcke was not taken into Japanese captivity as a medic , but was able to leave for Tsinanfu in November 1914 . From there he went to Shanghai and from June 5 to 29, 1915, traveled on to San Francisco with Karl Genzken . He returned to Germany and rejoined the medical forces there . Various land and board commands followed, so from January 25, 1918, he was employed as an inspection doctor for the submarine inspection and from October 1, 1918 at the naval station of the Baltic Sea and at the same time as chief doctor of the Kiel-Wik naval hospital. After the end of the war he was accepted into the Reichsmarine and on February 28, 1920 he was promoted to the position of senior marine physician general. From September 1, 1923, Praefcke worked as a medical doctor general at the North Sea naval station in Wilhelmshaven , and from July 15, 1925, he was also head of the local marine medical office . On October 31, 1925, Praefcke was retired from active service. On November 21, 1925 he was given the character of a Marine General Staff Doctor .

In the run-up to the Second World War , Praefcke was made available to the Navy on March 9, 1939 in the character of an admiral doctor. However, he was no longer used for active service. After the war he lived in Göttingen, where he died in 1962.

Private

Praefcke had been married to Margaret Fischer since 1912, who had followed him to East Asia in January 1912. The couple had a daughter.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography of Viktor Praefcke. In: Tsingtau and Japan 1914–1920 - Historisch Biographisches Projekt. Retrieved March 23, 2016 . The different information given in the German biography for the year of birth (1877) is incorrect. See index entry: Praefcke, Viktor. In: German biography. Retrieved November 12, 2016 .
  2. ^ Franz Schubert: High school graduates from Mecklenburg schools in the 19th century. Delivery 1, p. 9.


personal data
SURNAME Praefcke, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prefecture, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German admiral doctor
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1962
Place of death Goettingen