Admiral Franz von Hipper was commander of the German battlecruiser squadron of the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and subsequently became commander-in-chief of the German high seas fleet. In this role, he attended Queen Victoria's funeral in 1901 and received a number of ceremonial decorations. The three towns were shelled briefly before Hipper turned back to the planned rendezvous point. On 23 January, Hipper sortied, with Seydlitz in the lead, followed by Moltke, Derfflinger, and Blücher, along with four light cruisers and 19 torpedo boats.[27]. The leading British ships spotted Lützow and Derfflinger, and began firing on them. She struck two mines and quickly sank; only 127 men out of the crew of 629 were rescued. This is some text inside of a div block. [7] He served in this position only briefly, before being reassigned as the company commander of the Second Torpedo Unit, based in Wilhelmshaven, in October 1892. Back to Franz Von Der Hipper, he was nobodys fool. The attack killed 18 civilians and created a great deal of anger against Germany and the Royal Navy for failing to protect the British coast. This was followed by several mutinies beginning on October 29. [Note 1][2], After completing his education, Hipper signed up as a volunteer reserve officer (Einjährig-Freiwilliger), a one-year volunteer position in the German military. Hipper graduated from the Gymnasium in 1879 with the degree of Obersekundareife—the rough equivalent of a high school diploma. He remained in this post until 3 March 1887, at which point he was assigned as the watch officer aboard Friedrich Carl. When Bachmann departed for the Baltic in 1913, Hipper assumed command of I Scouting Group on October 1. Hipper served for 11 months as navigator aboard the battleship before he was transferred to the Imperial yacht SMY Hohenzollern on 19 September 1899. View the profiles of people named Franz Von Hipper. Ordered to SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm in October 1898, Hipper remained on board for nearly a year before landing a choice assignment aboard the royal yacht SMY Hohenzollern. Going ashore on November 9, he watched as the fleet departed for internment at Scapa Flow later that month. Promoted to captain on April 6, 1907, Hipper was dubbed an "Imperial Captain" by Kaiser Wilhelm II. Promoted to lieutenant commander on June 16, 1901, Hipper assumed command of the Second Torpedo Unit the following year and flew his flag from the new cruiser SMS Niobe. This is some text inside of a div block. The shell itself failed to enter the barbette, but the explosion flashed into the working chamber and detonated the propellant charges inside. [40] During this portion of the battle, Hipper's ships destroyed the battlecruisers Indefatigable and Queen Mary. Togo Heihachiro: Modern Grants 1 promotion level and +75% combat experience to a military naval unit. His deputy, Friedrich Boedicker, assumed temporary command. Attacking on November 3, he shelled the port before withdrawing back to the German base in the Jade Estuary. In the fighting, his command sank the battlecruisers HMS Indefatigable and HMS Queen Mary. Other articles where Franz von Hipper is discussed: David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty: …German squadron under Admiral von Hipper in its third attempt on the English coastal towns. Leipzig departed for the East Asia Squadron in September 1906, at which point Hipper was transferred to command the new armored cruiser Friedrich Carl. Line: 208 In the fighting, Hipper saw Blücher sunk and his flagship, SMS Seydlitz severely damaged. Franz von Hipper (13 September 1863 - 25 Mei 1932) adalah seorang laksamana madya Jerman selama Perang Dunia I. Ia dikenal karena memimpin pasukan Angkatan Laut Jerman di Pertempuran Jutlandia. Completing his education in 1879, he entered the military as a volunteer officer. "[62] The plan involved two simultaneous attacks by light cruisers and destroyers, one on Flanders and another on shipping in the Thames estuary; the five battlecruisers were to support the Thames attack while the dreadnoughts remained off Flanders. One would like to express one's regrets for the passing of a gallant officer and a great sailor. Admiral von Ingenohl was initially reluctant to attempt to destroy these forces, because the I Scouting Group was temporarily weakened while Von der Tann was in drydock for periodic maintenance. On January 27, 1912, following von Bachmann's promotion to command of the High Seas Fleet's scouting forces, Hipper was promoted to rear admiral and made deputy commander. Hipper was in this post when World War I began in August 1914. As the battle continued, the German battlecruisers sank HMS Invincible. Returning to Kiel in October 1884, Hipper spent the winter attending the Naval Officer School before being appointed to oversee the training of recruits in the First Naval Battalion. With German forces on the Western Front reeling, Scheer and Hipper planned a final effort for the High Seas Fleet in October 1918. Made a probationary sea cadet on April 12, 1881, Hipper spent the summer on the frigate SMS Niobe. Striking Scarborough, Hartlepool, and Whitby on December 16, Hipper's squadron, which had been augmented by the new battlecruiser Derfflinger, bombarded the three towns and inflicted numerous civilian casualties earning the admiral the sobriquet "baby killer." After spending a year with a coastal artillery unit, Hipper received an appointment at sea as an officer aboard Friedrich Carl. One was successfully returned to Germany, but the other had to be destroyed to prevent its capture. See community submitted builds for Germany commander Franz von Hipper. [57] A year later, a brief skirmish took place in the Helgoland Bight between British and German capital ships. Line: 315 Franz von Hipper 21/11/1918 The German fleet sails into captivity. Admiral Hipper was a heavy cruiser of the German navy. Function: _error_handler, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/page/index.php He requested sick leave on 20 March, which was approved by Admiral Reinhard Scheer—who had replaced von Pohl as fleet commander in January 1916— a week later on the 27th. While serving on the Imperial yacht, Hipper was present for the trip to England for Queen Victoria's funeral in 1901 and the cruise to America the following year. [43], At 19:24, the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron had formed up with Beatty's remaining battlecruisers ahead of the German line. [5] Admiral Hugo von Pohl stated in a subsequent report: "He has brought the ship to a higher degree of combat effectiveness, and the ship has won the Kaiser Prize for good shooting. Hipper held the position for three years, until he returned to fleet service. With the fleet in open revolt, Scheer and Hipper had no choice but to cancel the operation. ThoughtCo uses cookies to provide you with a great user experience and for our. With his squadron crippled, Hipper received command of large detachment of the High Seas Fleet following the battle. Published obituary Bay of Plenty Times, NZ newspaper 27 May 1932 VON HIPPER DEAD FAMOUS GERMAN ADMIRAL Berlin, May 25 The death has occurred of Admiral Franz von Hipper, famous during the Great War as a German naval commander. "[52], By 22:15, Hipper was finally able to transfer to Moltke; he then ordered his ships to steam at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) to take up their station at the head of the German line. At the Battle of Jutland, Hipper's flagship Lützow was sunk, though his ships succeeded in sinking three British battlecruisers. After evading German revolutionaries in 1919, Hipper retired to a quiet life in Altona, Germany. The armored cruiser Yorck made a navigational error that led her into one of the German minefields. Recommended for battleship command and for higher independent commands. On the way, a heavy fog covered the Heligoland Bight, so the ships were ordered to halt until visibility improved and they could safely navigate the defensive minefields. This … Turning his vessel into a crack ship, Friedrich Carl won the Kaiser's Prize for best shooting in the fleet in 1907. Franz Ritter von Hipper (13 September 1863 – 25 May 1932) was an admiral in the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). [11] In June 1897, Hipper participated in a 17-day Admiralty staff cruise aboard the aviso Grille. Upon graduation, he attended the 6-week Basic Gunnery School on the training ship Mars, from April to May 1882. He held the command until 30 September 1905. 23/11/2018 10/12/2018 ianmoore3000 1918, War at sea British Navy, David Beatty, First World War, Franz von Hipper, German fleet surrender, German navy, Ludwig von Reuter. Scheer intended to inflict as much damage as possible on the British navy, to achieve a better bargaining position for Germany regardless of the cost to the navy. He was concurrently promoted to Admiral; Hipper took provisional control of the fleet in a ceremony held on the old battleship Kaiser Wilhelm II the day before. [21], A second operation followed on 15–16 December 1914; it targeted the towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool, and Whitby. [69] He later wrote, My heart is breaking with this; my time as fleet commander has come to an inglorious end. Three days later, Hipper was informed that his hometown had named its main street Hipperstrasse (Hipper Street). I shall remain pro forma in command for a short time, otherwise, I am dead tired. On 6 March 1908, Hipper took command of the new cruiser Gneisenau. This is some text inside of a div block. Erich Raeder was appointed as Hipper's deputy. He served as Kaiser Wilhelm II’s royal yacht commander from 1899 to 1902, which attracted attention that helped advance his career. [45] Lützow had lost speed and was unable to keep up, and so Hipper ordered his flagship to withdraw to the southwest. --83.108.30.141 22:12, 22 July 2010 (UTC) WPMILHIST Assessment. He commanded several torpedo boat units and served as watch officer aboard several warships, as well as Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht SMY Hohenzollern. He went to Kiel, where he took the Pressen, courses designed to prepare officers for the naval entrance examination, which he successfully passed. He was presented with several other awards, including the Royal Saxon Order, the Order of Albrecht, and all three Hanseatic Crosses from Lübeck, Bremen, and Hamburg. Function: view, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/controllers/Main.php Two months later, Hipper, suffering from exhaustion, requested sick leave. [22] Vice Admiral Beatty's four battlecruisers, supported by six dreadnoughts and several cruisers and smaller vessels, were to ambush Hipper's battlecruisers. Admiral Hipper saw a significant amount of action during the war. [63] The situation had declined so significantly that on 9 November, Hipper personally took down his flag from the battleship Baden and went ashore.[66]. [73], Unlike his superior, Reinhard Scheer, Hipper never wrote a memoir of the war or his participation in the Imperial Navy. Franz von Hipper - Early Life & Career: Born in Weilheim in Oberbayern, Bavaria on September 13, 1863, Franz Hipper was the son of shopkeeper Anton Hipper and his wife Anna. [39], At 16:00, the British and German battlecruiser forces encountered each other and began a running gun fight south, back towards Scheer's battle fleet. Losing his father at age three, Hipper commenced his education in 1868 at school in Munich before moving to a gymnasium five years later. In September 1895, he took command of the Second Torpedo-boat Reserve Division. This began a three and a half year stint serving as watch officer aboard several ships,[5] including the corvettes Stosch and Stein, the armored frigate Friedrich der Grosse, and the aviso Wacht. In December 1914 Admiral Franz von Hipper and the First High Seas Fleet bombarded the costal towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby. [2] Among the fellow cadets of the 1881 class was Wilhelm Souchon, who went on to command the Mediterranean Division at the outbreak of World War I. [25] As a result of the civilian casualties inflicted in these raids, the British propaganda effort vilified Hipper as a "baby killer. Later in the year, Hipper elected to pursue a career in the Kaiserliche Marine and traveled to Kiel. [71], Following the German defeat in World War I, Hipper retired on 13 December 1918 from the navy and lived a quiet life; he received a full war pension. Blame for the defeat fell to Ingenohl rather than Hipper and he was replaced by Admiral Hugo von Pohl the following month. [32], Blame for the loss of Blücher was not placed on Hipper, but on his superior Admiral von Ingenohl, who was removed from his post on 4 February. Function: view. Line: 478 In the Battle of Dogger Bank on January 24, the two sides engaged in a running battle as the German commander attempted to escape back to base. In the confusion, Seydlitz lost sight of Moltke, and was no longer able to keep up with Moltke's 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph); Seydlitz detached herself to proceed to the Horns Reef lighthouse independently. Hipper died on 25 May 1932. After the revolution settled, he moved to Altona outside Hamburg. Born in Weilheim in Oberbayern, Bavaria on September 13, 1863, Franz Hipper was the son of shopkeeper Anton Hipper and his wife Anna. After additional assignments afloat and ashore, he became senior watch officer aboard the new battleship SMS Wörth in 1894. Hipper returned to the ship in October 1891 after completing the Torpedo Officer Course aboard SMS Blücher. Skill Tree. [72] During the chaos of the German Revolution of 1918–1919, Hipper hid from radical revolutionaries by assuming a false name and moving frequently. Serving under Prince Heinrich, Hipper was promoted to senior lieutenant and awarded the Bavarian National Defense Service Medal the following year. In April 1892, he went to join the crew of the newly commissioned coastal defense ship Beowulf, again as a torpedo officer. After both strikes, the fleet was to concentrate off the Dutch coast, where it would meet the Grand Fleet in battle. [70] The German fleet in Scapa Flow, meanwhile, was scuttled by its crew on 21 June 1919. Hickman, Kennedy. "World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper." [73] On hearing of Hipper's death, his old adversary David Beatty said, "I am very sorry. [6] Hipper attended the Torpedo Officer Course aboard the corvette Blücher from October 1890 to January 1891. As a result, the ships' engines could not operate at maximum performance. Line: 24 Though the first introductory sentence is accurate and concise, it is too short, in my personal opinion. Join Facebook to connect with Franz Von Hipper and others you may know. Admiral Hipper … [63] On 24 October 1918, the order was given to sail from Wilhelmshaven. Franz von Hipper joined the German Navy in 1881 as an officer cadet. On the return to Germany, Kronprinz and Grosser Kurfürst were torpedoed by a British submarine. He commanded several torpedo boat units and served as watch officer aboard several warships, as well as Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht SMY Hohenzollern. World War I: Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, World War I: Admiral of the Fleet John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, The Battle of the Falkland Islands - World War I, Striking Scarborough, Hartlepool, and Whitby, M.S., Information and Library Science, Drexel University, B.A., History and Political Science, Pennsylvania State University. He initially lived under an alias and moved frequently to avoid radical revolutionaries during the German Revolution of 1918–1919. [61] During the planning stages, Hipper wrote "As to a battle for the honor of the fleet in this war, even if it were a death battle, it would be the foundation for a new German fleet...such a fleet would be out of the question in the event of a dishonorable peace. Starting on the night of 29 October, sailors on several battleships mutinied; three ships from the III Squadron refused to weigh anchors, and acts of sabotage were committed on board the battleships Thüringen and Helgoland. [4] He was then designated as a torpedo specialist; he returned to Friedrich der Grosse as a torpedo officer in October 1891. The following day, he was promoted to rear admiral. Though Beatty's ships arrived in position to trap the enemy, signaling errors prevented the plan from being executed and Hipper was able to escape. Function: _error_handler, Message: Invalid argument supplied for foreach(), File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/user/popup_modal.php Unlike his superior, Reinhard Scheer, he never published a memoir of his service during the war. Attempting to maintain his force's station for the remainder of the battle, Hipper saw his badly damaged battlecruisers compelled to limp back to Germany after Scheer was able to evade the enemy during the night. It received his name in honor of the admiral of the German fleet – Franz Ritter von Hipper. Hickman, Kennedy. In return, both Lützow and Derfflinger concentrated their fire on Invincible, and at 19:33, Lützow's third salvo penetrated Invincible's center turret and ignited the magazine; the ship disappeared in a series of massive explosions.[44]. Line: 192 Made a commander on April 5, 1905, he attended the Cruiser and Battleship Gunnery Schools in early 1906. This was granted and he remained away from his command until May 12. Spotting the danger posed by Scheer's approaching battleships, Beatty reversed course. [20], After World War I broke out in 1914 Hipper led his battlecruisers on several raids against the English coastal towns. In 1918 he was promoted to succeed Admiral Reinhard Scheer as commander of the High Seas Fleet. [4] On 24 April, Hipper was assigned as a divisional drill officer; he was tasked with training recruits for the First Naval Battalion, based in Kiel. After mounting attacks on the Thames Estuary and Flanders, the fleet would engage the Grand Fleet. His squadron clashed with the British battlecruiser squadron at the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915, where the armored cruiser Blücher was lost. Previous. [33] Also on the 4th, Hipper met with the Kaiser on an inspection of the fleet in Wilhelmshaven. [51] Hipper remarked, "I had to find myself another flagship because I could no longer exercise command from one which was shot to pieces...A torpedo boat was called alongside and we changed under heavy fire...[I] drove my torpedoboat hoping to find an advantageous moment to board one of [the other battlecruisers]. [16] On 20 April, Hipper was given command of the light cruiser Leipzig, though his tenure as commander was short-lived. Function: view, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/index.php In January 1915, Ingenohl directed Hipper to take his force to clear British vessels from the area around Dogger Bank. When Franz turned five, he began his education at a Catholic grammar school in Munich. Although they were unaware of the exact plans, the cryptographers of Room 40 were able to deduce that Hipper would be conducting an operation in the Dogger Bank area. He has appeared on The History Channel as a featured expert. When Franz turned five, he began his education at a Catholic grammar school in Munich. Only Moltke and Seydlitz, however, were in condition to comply; Derfflinger and Von der Tann could make at most 18 knots, and so these ships lagged behind. [4] After returning from the staff cruise, Hipper was promoted to serve as the commander of the Second Reserve Torpedo-boat Flotilla, a position in which he served for 15 months. Encountering von Hipper's battlecruisers, Beatty opened the fight but was drawn towards the main body of the German High Seas Fleet by his adversary. [42] During the run to the north, Hipper's ships continued to engage both Beatty's battlecruisers and the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships of the 5th Battle Squadron. [36], Admiral Scheer planned another operation to lure out a portion of the British fleet for 17 May, but damage to the battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz sustained during the bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft the previous month, coupled with condenser trouble on several of the battleships of III Battle Squadron caused the plan to be delayed, ultimately to 31 May. While in this command, Hipper was awarded additional commendations, including the Prussian Distinguished Service Cross and the Prussian Royal Crown Order. Who's Who - Franz von Hipper. He was also awarded the Royal Bavarian Military Order of Max Joseph, Commander's Cross. [38] The British navy's Room 40 had intercepted and decrypted German radio traffic containing plans of the operation, and so sortied the Grand Fleet, totaling some 28 dreadnoughts and 9 battlecruisers the night before, in order to cut off and destroy the High Seas Fleet. Franz von Hipper joined the German Navy in 1881 as an officer cadet. [31] At this time, Lion's last operational dynamo failed, which dropped her speed to 15 knots (28 km/h). 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. [64] As Von der Tann and Derfflinger passed through the locks that separated Wilhelmshaven's inner harbor and roadstead, some 300 men from both ships climbed over the side and disappeared ashore. The battlecruisers under my command found themselves, in view of the prevailing [East-North-East] wind, in the windward position and so in an unfavourable situation from the outset.

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