Eduard von Knorr

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Life

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Born in Saarlouis, Rhenish Prussia, Knorr entered the Prussian Navy in 1856. While serving on the paddle steamer Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., he fought at the Battle of Tres Forcas against pirates off the coast of Morocco later that year. In 1859 he was promoted to Script error: No such module "Lang". (sub-lieutenant). From 1859 to 1862, he sailed with the transport ship Elbe on the Eulenburg expedition to the Far East. He was promoted to Script error: No such module "Lang". (lieutenant) in 1862 and during the Second Schleswig War, he captained the gunboat Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".. He was promoted to Script error: No such module "Lang". (captain lieutenant) in 1865.

On 12 November 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, Knorr commanded the gunboat Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". in a battle with the French aviso Bouvet near Havana, for which he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class. In 1871 he was promoted to Script error: No such module "Lang". (corvette captain).

Beginning in 1874, Knorr took part in a voyage through the Pacific Ocean as captain of the screw frigate Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". to discuss trade negotiations with Tonga on behalf of the German Empire. He was promoted to Script error: No such module "Lang". (captain at sea) in 1876, made Chief of Staff of the Admiralty in 1881, and promoted to Script error: No such module "Lang". (rear admiral) in 1883.

As commander of the West African Squadron in December 1884, Knorr intervened in disputes between rival clans in Douala, Cameroon, imposing German sovereignty over the Cameroon estuary. He was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle for this success. From 1 April to 4 July 1885, Knorr was Script error: No such module "Lang". of the German colony of Kamerun. He then commanded a cruiser squadron travelling to Zanzibar and negotiated with its sultan for the acquisition of a strip of German colonial territory in what would become German East Africa.

In 1886, Knorr commanded a cruiser squadron at Samoa. He was promoted to Script error: No such module "Lang". (vice admiral) in 1889, Admiral in 1893, and Commanding Admiral in 1895. Raised to the German nobility on 18 January 1896, he received the Order of the Black Eagle on 15 June 1898. He retired in 1899 and was appointed an admiral à la suite of the Script error: No such module "Lang"..

Knorr died in Berlin. Admiral-Knorr-Straße, a street in Saarlouis, is named after him.

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Anonymous portrait of Eduard von Knorr, ca. 1884
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Portrait of Eduard von Knorr by Christian Wilhelm Allers, 1891
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Knorr on the Fondation of the Elbe–Lübeck Canal on 31 May 1895

Honours

German honours[1]
Foreign honours[1]

Literature

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Further reading

  • G.Beckmann, K.U. Keubke (Hrsg.): Alltag in der Kaiserlichen Marine um 1890. Template:ISBN, S.102–103 Template:In lang
  • Cord Eberspächer/Gerhard Wiechmann: Admiral Eduard von Knorr (1840–1920). Eine Karriere in der neuen Elite der Seeoffiziere in Preußen-Deutschland. In: Karl Christian Führer/Karen Hagemann/Birthe Kundrus (Hg.): Eliten im Wandel. Gesellschaftliche Führungsschichten im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Für Klaus Saul zum 65. Geburtstag, Münster 2004, S. 239–258 Template:In lang

References

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  1. ↑ a b Handbuch über den Königlich Preußischen Hof und Staat fur das jahr 1908, p. 135
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