Friedrich von Ingenohl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German admiral
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Place of Birth: Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
About Friedrich von Ingenohl
- Gustav Heinrich Ernst Friedrich von Ingenohl (30 June 1857, in Neuwied – 19 December 1933, in Berlin) was a German admiral from Neuwied best known for his command of the German High Seas Fleet at the beginning of World War I.He was the son of a tradesman.
- He joined the navy in about 1874, and spent many years in the Far East.
- He took part in an engagement in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895.
- He moved to the Admiralty in Berlin in 1897, and in 1904 became the commander of the yacht Hohenzollern.
- He became an admiral in 1908 and received the "von", which signified nobility, on 27 January 1909.
- He became commander-in-chief of the navy in January 1913.His intention of engaging the British Royal Navy in a quick, decisive battle was not supported by the German admiralty.
- Ingenohl repeatedly sought small engagements against the British fleet in order to provoke imprudent counterstrokes, in order to gain a crucial advantage for the German navy.
- The intended result did not materialize; in the first combat of this kind on 28 August 1914 at the Battle of Heligoland Bight, the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) lost three light cruisers and a torpedo boat to Royal Navy ships.
- After a similarly unsuccessful action on the Dogger Bank on 24 January 1915, Ingenohl yielded command of the High Seas Fleet on 2 February and was succeeded by Admiral Hugo von Pohl. After the war, the Allies requested his extradition as a "war culprit", but Germany refused to comply.
- Ingenohl died in Berlin on 19 December 1933.
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