Wilhelm von Haxthausen

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Wilhelm von Haxthausen (* the 30th August 1874 in Lauenburg ; † 1. March 1936 in Kiel ) from the noble family of Haxthausen was a German Rear Admiral of the Navy and longtime aide of Prince Adalbert of Prussia.

Life

Haxthausen joined the Imperial Navy on April 4, 1893 as a cadet . He completed his basic and ship training on the training ship Stosch and attended the naval school in 1895/96 . Promoted to sub-lieutenant at sea on September 14, 1896 , he served on various ironclad ships. With his promotion to first lieutenant at sea , he was transferred to the small cruiser sea ​​eagle deployed in the station service as an officer on the watch on October 3, 1899 . During the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion , the ship was assigned to the East Asian Cruiser Squadron and stayed in the Chinese coastal waters during this time. At the end of April 1901, Haxthausen began his journey home from China, was then at the disposal of the chief of the North Sea naval station and at the end of September 1901 was transferred to the Hohenzollern as an officer on watch for three years . In the meantime he graduated from the Naval Academy with the I. and II. Coetus until 1905. On May 25, 1905 he was appointed personal adjutant to Prince Adalbert of Prussia , whom he also served as court marshal for the duration of the First World War .

Released from this command after the end of the war, Haxthausen worked briefly from November 10, 1918 as a deputy naval attaché at the German legation in The Hague . This command served primarily to provide support and organizational security in the first months of the imperial family's exile in the Netherlands. The military attaché in The Hague at that time was Erich von Müller (1877–1935). From February 3 to March 13, 1919 he was at the disposal of the chief of the naval station of the Baltic Sea and then joined the III. Marine Brigade . He was a battalion commander until the end of February 1920. Subsequently, he was taken over into the Reichsmarine, was briefly commander of the ship master division of the Baltic Sea, was on leave for almost three months and on June 15, 1920 was appointed commander of the naval arsenal in Kiel. For a time he worked here as port captain of Kiel and as head of the coastal district inspection. In this position he was promoted to sea captain on June 29, 1920 with RDA from November 29, 1919 and on September 9, 1922 with RDA from August 1, 1922 to rear admiral. On March 31, 1923, he was retired from active service.

Haxthausen was a legal knight of the Order of St. John . He died on March 1, 1936 in Kiel.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 2: HO. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1989, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 , p. 29 f.
  • Hans Hildebrand: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1915-1945. Volume 2: Marine. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 2000, p. 35 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Hildebrand: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1915-1945. Volume 2: Marine. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 2000, p. 35 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Haxthausen, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rear admiral of the Reichsmarine
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1936
Place of death Kiel