Paul Behncke
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| Allegiance | File:Flag of the German Empire.svg German Empire Template:Flagdeco Weimar Republic |
Branch | Template:Navy/core Template:Navy/core |
Service years | 1883–1924 |
Rank | Admiral |
| Commands | III Battle Squadron |
Conflicts | World War I |
| Awards | Pour le Mérite |
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| State Secretary for the Navy of Germany | |
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| Monarch | Wilhelm II |
| Chancellor | Max von Baden |
| Preceded by | Eduard von Capelle |
| Succeeded by | Ernst Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler |
| Chief of the Admiralty of Germany | |
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| Friedrich Ebert | |
Chancellor | Constantin Fehrenbach |
| Otto Gessler | |
| Preceded by | William Michaelis |
| Succeeded by | Himself (as Chief of the Naval Command) |
| Chief of the Naval Command of Germany | |
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| Friedrich Ebert | |
Chancellor | Constantin Fehrenbach Joseph Wirth Wilhelm Cuno Gustav Stresemann Wilhelm Marx |
| Otto Gessler | |
| Preceded by | Himself (as Chief of the Admiralty) |
| Succeeded by | Hans Zenker |
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Paul Behncke (13 August 1869 – 4 January 1937) was born in Lübeck and died in Berlin. He was a German admiral during the First World War, most notable for his command of the III Battle Squadron of the German High Seas Fleet during the Battle of Jutland.[citation needed]
Naval career
At the age of fourteen he joined the navy and as an officer commanded a gunboat in the Far East. After studying at the Naval Academy in Kiel he was assigned to the general staff. As commander of the unprotected cruiser Template:SMS, he returned to Chinese waters and on being promoted to the rank of captain he was appointed to the battleship Template:SMS, and afterwards to the dreadnought Template:SMS.[citation needed]
Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War Behncke was promoted to Konteradmiral (Rear Admiral) and again assigned to the general staff. During the conflict he was opposed to Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz's theories on submarine warfare, and was appointed head of the III Battle Squadron, composed of eight of the nine most modern battleships of the German navy (the Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. and Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found.es). Leading these ships aboard his flagship Template:SMS, Behncke took part in the Battle of Jutland, where he was seriously wounded by a shell splinter and found himself in command of the whole fleet during the third phase of the action.[citation needed]
During the 1917 Battle of Moon Sound he prevented the retreat of part of the Russian fleet and sank the Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found.. By that time he had the rank of Vizeadmiral (Vice Admiral) and the following year, after the renunciation of Admiral Eduard von Capelle, rose to State Secretary of the Imperial Naval Office, a position he held for only one month before being relieved.[citation needed]
Behncke regained office after the war, replacing admiral Adolf von Trotha, and retired from the navy in 1924. In retirement, Behncke served as the president of the German-Japanese Society.[1]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ADMIRAL BEHNCKE, 70, OF GERMANY IS DEAD". New York Times. 5 January 1937.
- Enciclopedia General del Mar, Jose Mª Martinez - Hidalgo, Volume I, s.v. BEHNCKE, Paul, Page 1323, Ediciones Garriga, S.A., Barcelona, 1968
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