Kaiser Otto Wilhelm u-Boot-Kommandant Original Bilddokument From 1917

Description: Lieutenant Commander Otto Weddigen Historical image document from Illustrirte Zeitung from 1917 (no reprint - no copy) Format 6 x 10 cm - printed on the back. Condition: good - see scan! Shipping is of course quick and packaged to be kink-proof! If you have any questions, please send an email - Questions? - please send an email.Please also note my other offers! Here are more motifs in the shop! Shipping costs only apply once for multiple items purchased! Documentation: Otto Eduard Weddigen (* 15. September 1882 in Herford; † 18. March 1915 at sea off Scotland) was a German lieutenant captain and submarine commander in the First World War. Otto Weddigen was born as the eleventh and youngest child of a linen manufacturer. After spending a year at the Wilhelmsplatz community school, Weddigen attended the Friedrichs-Gymnasium in his hometown of Herford from 1890 to 1901, before joining the Imperial Navy as an officer candidate. In contrast to the army, which was still dominated by the Prussian nobility, the navy certainly offered young men from the middle class opportunities for advancement. In 1902 he was promoted to ensign and in 1904 to lieutenant at sea. In May 1906, Weddigen was transferred to the East Asia Squadron, stationed in the German colony of Kiautschou in China. He became a watch officer on the river gunboat Fatherland and was promoted to first lieutenant at sea. In 1907 he served as a watch officer on the gunboat Tiger. Weddigen returned to Germany in October 1908 and joined the submarine arm, which was currently being set up. From April 1909 to September 1910 he served as a watch officer on U 1, U 2 and U 4. Then he received his first command of his own with U 4. During the next year he also commanded U 3 and U 5 at times before he left on 1. October 1911 became commander of U 9, one of the Navy's newest submarines. On the 25th. In April 1912 Weddigen was promoted to lieutenant captain. On the 21st In May 1913, in an exercise with four torpedoes, he put three ships of the line out of action with U-9, namely the Ostfriesland, the Thuringia and the Friedrich der Große. The crew of U 9, Otto Weddigen standing in the middle. A few days after the start of the First World War, Weddigen sailed from Heligoland with U 9 and nine other submarines for their first mission. This first ever act of war by German submarines failed. Two boats were lost and U 9 had to return to the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven, battered and with technical problems. Weddigen used the weeks of rest to marry a childhood friend. Sinking of the British armored cruisers Cressy, Hogue and Aboukir; based on an original drawing by Hans Bohrdt on 20. In September 1914, U 9 left the Heligoland naval base on a reconnaissance trip to the west. In the morning hours of the 22nd September 1914 approx. 50 km north of Hook of Holland three British warships sighted in keel line walked. Weddigen managed to sink the three technically outdated British armored cruisers Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy one after the other in just 75 minutes. According to the report of the Cressy's commander, Bertram WL Nicholson, an observation post on the Aboukir apparently mistook U 9's periscope for a piece of driftwood. A chance hit in the Aboukir's weapons magazine caused a massive explosion and chaos on board the British ship. What made matters worse for Cressy, who rushed to help, was that the crew consisted almost entirely of less well-trained reservists. In a report written later, Weddigen openly admitted that, in addition to military skills, a large portion of luck was also involved in the successful operation for the Germans and clearly emphasized what he believed to be the brave attitude of the opposing soldiers. Around 1,500 members of the British crew lost their lives. 800 survivors were rescued, including by a British fishing boat and the Dutch passenger steamers Flora and Titan. Despite being pursued by British ships, U 9 managed to return to Heligoland unscathed. It was then triumphantly received in Wilhelmshaven. Weddigen was celebrated as a war hero in the German Empire. The sinking of three enemy ships within a very short period of time established submarines as a means of warfare. For the German submarine force, it was a success that had previously not been thought possible. Weddigen was founded by Kaiser Wilhelm II. with the Iron Cross II. and 1st class awarded. The remaining crew members received the Iron Cross II. Class. From then on, the boat U 9 was allowed to carry the Iron Cross on the tower. Almost three weeks later, on the 15th. October 1914, Weddigen sank the British cruiser Hawke off Aberdeen, for which he was personally rewarded by the Kaiser on October 24th. In October 1914, he was one of the first German naval officers to be awarded the Pour le Mérite, the highest Prussian order for bravery. After the Reich government's declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare, contrary to international law but in response to Great Britain's blockade of Germany, which also violated international law, expressly provided for the sinking of enemy merchant ships, U-9 also sank three such civilian ships under Weddigen Ships. Due to an injury, Weddigen had to hand over his command in January 1915 Officer Johannes Spieß. After his recovery he took over on the 13th. February 1915 U 29. In contrast to the petroleum boat U 9, this boat had diesel engines. On the 10th In March 1915 U 29 left Zeebrugge for its first mission under Weddigen. It reached its area of operations in the Irish Sea and was able to sink four ships of 12,934 tons over the next few days. On the march back around Scotland U 29 encountered March 1915, east of the Pentland Firth (between mainland Scotland and the Orkney Islands), the Grand Fleet. This was on the way home to her base at Scapa Flow. After a missed shot at the battleship Neptune, the submarine's periscope was spotted by the battleship Dreadnought. Weddigen was no longer able to get to depth in time. At around 1:40 p.m. the dreadnought rammed the German boat, causing the forecastle to rise to the surface for a short time. The boat number was identified. Then U 29 sank and Otto Weddigen and his entire crew were killed. It was the dreadnought's only combat operation during the naval warfare of World War I. The outpost boat Weddigen, put into service in 1917, was named after him. Likewise, the U-boat cruiser U 140, built in 1917/1918 and operational from the summer of 1918, was given the name Kapitanleutnant Weddigen in honor of the well-known submarine commander. Weddigen was celebrated as a war hero in Germany as a result of his sensational military successes; his hometown made him an honorary citizen at the age of 32. Reverence and the creation of legends quickly spread, propagandized by the tabloid press loyal to the emperor. Beer mugs, medals, wall plates and portrait busts of him were circulated in large numbers. Soon it was said that there was a Weddigen memento in almost every German household. The cult of the submarine commander during the First World War was later only surpassed by the one on December 21st. The fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen was shot down in April 1918. The memory of the naval officer also remained alive during the Weimar Republic and National Socialism. In 1927, Heinz Paul made the feature film U 9 Weddigen with Carl de Vogt in the leading role. Under National Socialist rule, the memory of the former “war hero” was once again promoted and several biographies were published. At the University of Kiel, the local Association of German Students Kiel was involved the Academic-Musical Association Albingia and the Academic Gymnastics Association Ditmarsia, after the student associations were brought into line from 1938, a comradeship Otto Weddigen of the NSD Student Association. When the German submarine force was rebuilt, the first newly founded flotilla was named after Weddigen in 1935. Karl Dönitz became the first boss. The boat U 9, like Weddigen's U 9, bore the Iron Cross as a turret badge. Department 6/160 of the Reich Labor Service in Herford was also named after Weddigen. In 1937, the newly built youth hostel in Wilhelmshaven-Rüstringen was named Weddigen Youth Hostel.[5] During this time, Leitz built both an underwater camera and a pair of prism binoculars called Weddigen under the brand name Leica. After the Second World War, Weddigen - unlike Richthofen - was largely forgotten outside of naval circles. At the beginning of the 1950s, Pabel-Moewig published a number of magazine novels about the U 9 and Weddigen, including 1953 With Weddigen on a Great War Trip. Books about Weddigen as well as devotional items from the hero worship that took place in the German Empire can now only be found in antiquarian bookshops and flea market dealers specializing in militaria. However, as a result of a renewed interest in the events of the First World War, research and the feature pages are beginning to take an interest in Weddigen as a person again. In Herford, there is a memorial plaque at the Frühherrenhaus, Weddigen's birthplace, on the corner of Parsilienstrasse and Frühherrenstrasse. The Weddigenufer on the Werre was named after him. An outdoor swimming pool created there in 1935 - during the Nazi era - which was used as a military facility for a long time (after the war also by the British Army), bore his name. The people of Herford called the outdoor pool “Otto” for short in the last few years before it was demolished. In 1997, a leisure pool called H2O, synonymous with Herfords 2, was built on the site. Otto.[6] The Otto Weddigen naval comradeship based in the city also remembers him. U 9 of the Federal Navy also had the Iron Cross as its coat of arms. In Berlin, several streets were named after the submarine commander; Weddigenweg in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district still exists today. Thalstrasse in Oberhausen-Sterkrade was also renamed after him in 1936 and has been called Otto-Weddigen-Strasse ever since. In Augsburg, Aurich, Bielefeld, Freiburg im Breisgau, Gerlingen, Hanover, Landsberg am Lech, Lünen, Munich, Münster, Nordhorn, Nuremberg, Oldenburg, Wuppertal as well as Danzig-Stolzenberg (until 1945), Hamburg (until 1947) and Kiel (also until 1947)[8] are or were also streets named after him. In the small town of Neukirchen-Vluyn on the Lower Rhine, three streets in a mining settlement built in 1919 bear his name (Weddigenplatz, Weddigenallee, Weddigenstraße). In Düsseldorf-Niederkassel, a rifle company has been called the Otto Weddigen Company since 1935 - the twentieth year of the submarine commander's death. The Otto Weddigen Room in the private, publicly accessible U-Boat Archive Museum in Cuxhaven is named after him.Source: Wikipedia Otto Eduard Weddigen (* 15. September 1882 in Herford; † 18. March 1915 at sea off Scotland) was a German lieutenant captain and submarine commander in the First World War. Otto Weddigen was born as the eleventh and youngest child of a linen manufacturer. After spending a year at the Wilhelmsplatz community school, Weddigen attended the Friedrichs-Gymnasium in his hometown of Herford from 1890 to 1901, before joining the Imperial Navy as an officer candidate. In contrast to the army, which was still dominated by the Prussian nobility, the navy certainly offered young men from the middle class opportunities for advancement. In 1902 he was promoted to ensign and in 1904 to lieutenant at sea. In May 1906, Weddigen was transferred to the East Asia Squadron, stationed in the German colony of K

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