Hugo Meurer
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Life
Meurer was born in Sallach in Carinthia. On 16 April 1886 he joined the Kaiserliche Marine.
During the First World War he served as commander of Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". at the Battle of Jutland, and from 1916 to 1917 as captain of the battleship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".. In 1917 he was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral (Konteradmiral), as the second Admiral of the 4th Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet, which he remained until the end of the war.[1]
From 21 February to 2 May 1918, as commander of the special unit (Sonderverband) of the Baltic Sea, he led the naval expedition for the German intervention in the ongoing civil war in Finland.[2] In November 1918 Meurer negotiated as representative of Admiral Franz von Hipper with Admiral David Beatty the details of the surrender of the German fleet.[3]
Meurer was also the naval station commander of the Baltic, based in Kiel. He was dismissed on 8 January 1920, after derogatory remarks against the government, but still received the character (an unpaid honorary title) of vice-admiral.[4]
He died in 1960 in Kiel, where he was buried at the Template:Ill.
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Notes
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- ↑ World War I Document Archive
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- ↑ Gerhard Granier: Magnus von Levetzow: Seeoffizier, Monarchist und Wegbereiter Hitlers – Lebensweg und ausgewählte Dokumente. Boppard am Rhein 1982 (Schriften des Bundesarchivs Nr. 31), p. 64.
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- 1869 births
- 1960 deaths
- People from Styria
- Vice admirals of the Imperial German Navy
- Vice admirals of the Reichsmarine
- Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 1st class
- People of the Finnish Civil War (White side)
- Commanders of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
- German anti-communists
- German expatriates in Finland
- Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to Germany