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Leberecht Maass
Leberecht Maass (or Maaß) (24 November 1863 – 28 August 1914) was the ''Konteradmiral'' who commanded the German naval forces at the first Battle of Heligoland Bight. He lost his life when his flagship, the light cruiser , was sunk by British battlecruisers commanded by Vice Admiral David Beatty. Early life Leberecht Maass was born in Korkenhagen, Province of Pomerania. Maass entered the ''Kaiserliche Marine'' in 1863. Between 1893 and 1895 Maass commanded a torpedoboat. Between 1898 and 1901 he commanded a squadron and between 1903 and 1906 he was department chief in the Torpedo department. Maass served as director of the Naval School (1906-1908) and was promoted to captain in March 1908. He commanded the cruiser (April 1908-June 1909), the armored cruiser (March 1909-June 1910) and the old battleship (August 1910-September 1910). In October 1910 Maass was promoted to ''kommandeur''. On 9 December 1913 Maass was promoted to ''Konteradmiral'', flying his flag on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budzieszowce
Budzieszowce (german: Korkenhagen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Maszewo, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Gmina Maszewo, within Goleniów County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Maszewo, east of Goleniów, and north-east of the regional capital Szczecin. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania. Notable residents * Leberecht Maass (1863–1914), admiral References Villages in Goleniów County, Budzieszowce {{Goleniów-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SMS Mainz
SMS was a light cruiser of the German (Imperial Navy) during the First World War. She had three sister ships, , , and . She was built by the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin; her hull was laid down in 1908 and she was launched in January 1909. She was commissioned into the High Seas Fleet in October 1909. She was armed with a main battery of twelve 10.5 cm SK L/45 guns and had a top speed of . After her commissioning, she served with the II Scouting Group, part of the reconnaissance forces of the High Seas Fleet. She was assigned to patrols off the island of Heligoland at the outbreak of World War I in early August 1914. At the Battle of Heligoland Bight on 28 August 1914, the German patrol forces were attacked by superior British forces, including five battlecruisers and several light cruisers. was initially stationed in support of the forces on the patrol line. She attempted to reinforce the beleaguered German forces, and encountered a much stronger force of British cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Lost At Sea
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People From The Province Of Pomerania
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial German Navy Admirals Of World War I
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German Military Personnel Killed In World War I
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People From Goleniów County
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captains Who Went Down With The Ship
Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, etc. In militaries, the captain is typically at the level of an officer commanding a company or battalion of infantry, a ship, or a battery of artillery, or another distinct unit. The term also may be used as an informal or honorary title for persons in similar commanding roles. Etymology The term "captain" derives from (, , or 'the topmost'), which was used as title for a senior Byzantine military rank and office. The word was Latinized as capetanus/catepan, and its meaning seems to have merged with that of the late Latin "capitaneus" (which derives from the classical Latin word "caput", meaning head). This hybridized term gave rise to the English language term captain and its equivalents in other languages (, , , , , , , , , kapitány, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914 Deaths
This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It also saw the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line. Events January * January 1 – The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the United States starts services between St. Petersburg, Florida, St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with Tony Jannus (the first federally-licensed pilot) conveying passengers in a Benoist XIV flying boat. Abram C. Pheil, mayor of St. Petersburg, is the first airline passenger, and over 3,000 people witness the first departure. * January 11 – The Sakurajima volcano in Japan b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1863 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation during the third year of the American Civil War, making the abolition of slavery in the Confederate states an official war goal. It proclaims the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's four million slaves and immediately frees 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advance. * January 2 – Lucius Tar Painting Master Company (''Teerfarbenfabrik Meirter Lucius''), predecessor of Hoechst, as a worldwide chemical manufacturing brand, founded in a suburb of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. * January 4 – The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany. * January 7 – In the Swiss canton of Ticino, the village of Bedretto is partly destroyed and 29 killed, by an avalanche. * January 8 ** The Yorkshire County Cricket Club is founded at the Adelphi Hotel, in Sheffield, England. ** American Civil War – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leberecht Maass (Z-1)
The German destroyer Z1 ''Leberecht Maass'' was the lead ship of her class of four destroyers built for the German Navy (initially called the ''Reichsmarine'' and then renamed as the ''Kriegsmarine'' in 1935) during the mid-1930s. Completed in 1937, two years before the start of World War II, the ship served as a flagship and spent most of her time training, although she did participate in the occupation of Memel in early 1939. Several days after the start of the war in September 1939, Z1 ''Leberecht Maass'' and another destroyer unsuccessfully attacked Polish ships in the naval base on the Hel Peninsula. She was lightly damaged during the action. In mid-February 1940, while proceeding into the North Sea to attack British fishing trawlers ( Operation Wikinger), the ship was bombed by a patrolling German bomber that damaged her steering. Following the attack, Z1 ''Leberecht Maass'' broke in half and sank with the loss of most of her crew. A court of inquiry convened during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town Class Cruiser (1910)
The Town class was a group of twenty-one light cruisers built for the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) of the first half of the 20th Century. These vessels were long-range cruisers, suitable for patrolling the vast expanse covered by the British Empire. These ships, initially rated as second class cruisers, were built to a series of designs, known as the ''Bristol'' (five ships), ''Weymouth'' (four ships), ''Chatham'' (three RN ships, plus three RAN ships), ''Birmingham'' (three ships, plus one similar RAN ship) and ''Birkenhead'' (two ships) classes – all having the names of British towns except for the RAN ships, which were named after Australian cities. Design ''Bristol'' class The ''Bristol'' class were all ordered under the 1908–09 Programme and commissioned in late 1910.Lyon ''Warship'' Vol. 1 No. 3, p. 50. They were second class cruisers suitable for a variety of roles including both trade protection and fleet duties.Preston 1985, p. 51. They were l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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