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Imperial German Navy admirals
Franz von Hipper, Alfred von Tirpitz, Reinhard Scheer, Prince Henry of Prussia, Maximilian von Spee, Otto von Diederichs, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Felix von Bendemann, Hans von Koester, August von Thomsen, Georg Alexander von Müller
ISBN/EAN: 9781155744759
Umbreit-Nr.: 3936525
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 38 S.
Format in cm: 0.3 x 24.6 x 18.9
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 07.08.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
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- Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Chapters: Franz von Hipper, Alfred von Tirpitz, Reinhard Scheer, Prince Henry of Prussia, Maximilian von Spee, Otto von Diederichs, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Felix von Bendemann, Hans von Koester, August von Thomsen, Georg Alexander von Müller, Friedrich von Hollmann, Hermann Bauer, Viktor Valois, Felix Funke, William Michaelis, Wilhelm Souchon, Gustav von Senden-Bibran, Eduard von Knorr, Ludwig von Reuter, Leberecht Maass, Karl Eduard Heusner, Henning von Holtzendorff, August von Heeringen, Erhard Schmidt, Hugo Meurer, Ludwig von Henk, Hans Zenker, Hugo von Pohl, Paul Behncke, Paul von Hintze, Friedrich von Ingenohl, Max von der Goltz, Alexander von Monts, Hubert von Rebeur-Paschwitz, Adolf von Trotha, Eduard von Capelle, Friedrich Bödicker, Paul Hoffmann, Albrecht von Stosch, Reinhold von Werner. Excerpt: Franz Ritter von Hipper (13 September 1863 - 25 May 1932) was an admiral in the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). Franz von Hipper joined the German Navy in 1881 as an officer cadet. He commanded several torpedo boat units and served as watch officer aboard several warships, as well as Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht Hohenzollern. Hipper commanded several cruisers in the reconnaissance forces before being appointed commander of the I Scouting Group in October 1913. He held this position until 1918, when he succeeded Admiral Reinhard Scheer as commander of the High Seas Fleet. He is most famous for commanding the German battlecruisers of the I Scouting Group during World War I, particularly at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May - 1 June 1916. During the war, Hipper led the German battlecruisers on several raids of the English coast, for which he was vilified in the English press as a "baby killer." His squadron clashed with the British battlecruiser squadron at the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915, where the armored cruiser Blücher was lost. At the Battle of Jutland, Hipper's flagship Lützow was sunk, though his ships succeeded in sinking three British battlecruisers. After the end of the war in 1918, Franz von Hipper retired from the Imperial Navy with a full pension. He initially lived under an alias and moved frequently to avoid radical revolutionaries during the German Revolution of 1918-19. After the revolution settled, he moved to Altona outside Hamburg. Unlike his superior, Reinhard Scheer, he never published a memoirs of his service during the war. Hipper died on 25 May 1932. The Kriegsmarine commemorated Hipper with the launching of the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper in 1938. Franz Hipper was born to Anton and Anna Hipper in Weilheim in Oberbayern, some 40 miles (64 km) south of Munich, on 13 September 1863. His father, a shop-keeper, died when Franz was three. When Franz turned five, he began his education at a Catholic grammar school in Munich. At the a