Friedrich Der Grosse 1911
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john sefton
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Friedrich Der Grosse 1911
FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE. Battleship, Kaiser Class German. Built in 1913 by Vulcan, Hamburgh. Keel laid Nov 1909. Launched June 1911. Completed January 1913. 24700tn. L564'6" wi B95'1". Dr27'3". AEG turbines. 28000dhp. 3 screws. 101/2kn. Armed with Ten 12". Fourteen 5.9". Twelve 2.4" guns. Five 20" TT. Complement 1080-1130. She was Flagship of Commander in Chief Imperial High Seas through WW1. Scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1919 - East Germany. 1967. 10pf. SG E1027 (LB 3/98. EWA Vol 9. p26. SB May 1968)
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aukepalmhof
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Re: Friedrich Der Grosse 1911
The ship belonged to the Kaiser class and was flagship from commissioning until 1914.
She was present at the Battle of Jutland
After the end of the First World War was she interned in Scapa Flow on 25 November 1918.
On 21 June 1919, she was scuttled by her own crew, capsized, and sank.
From 29 April 1936, she was scrapped on site.
Max Reicpietsch, who is also depicted on this stamp,
Max Reichpietsch ( October 24, 1894, in Charlottenburg – September 5, 1917, near Wahn ) was a German sailor and in 1917 one of the organizers of the anti-war movement in the German Imperial Navy.
life
Both Reichpietsch and his parents were New Apostolic Christians. At the age of 18, he had volunteered for the Navy in 1912. Under the impression of the war, among other things as a participant in the Battle of the Skagerrak, combined with the harassment of the officers and the lack of food – lower ranks were less well looked after than the officers - he turned into an opponent of the war.
As a sailor on the large liner SMS FRIEDRICH DER GROSE, he was, together with the chief fireman Willy Sachse and the sailor Wilhelm Weber, as well as the firemen Albin Köbis and Hans Beckers stationed on the large liner SMS PRINZREGENT LUITPOLD, the organizer of the anti-war movement among the sailors of the High Seas Fleet in the summer of 1917. Various sailors, including Reichpietsch and Köbis, maintained contact with the USPD leadership that summer.
Reichpietsch was arrested and sentenced to death in a court-martial on August 26, 1917, as the "main ringleader" for "complete uprising" along with Köbis, Sachse, Weber, and Beckers. Reichpietsch had previously received a total of fourteen disciplinary and court-martial terms for various offenses including lateness, absenteeism, disobedience, and theft. The death sentence imposed on him was one of 150 during the entire war in the German Reich, of which only 48 were carried out.
The death sentences imposed on Sachse, Weber, and Beckers were commuted to prison terms of 15 years each. On September 5, 1917, the death sentences against Max Reichpietsch and Albin Köbis were carried out at the Wahn shooting range near Cologne. Today the Wahn Air Force barracks are located there.
Wilhelm Dittmann, left-wing social democratic politician and member of the Reichstag, judged the court proceedings in his later writing The Marine Judicial Murders of 1917 and the Admirals' Rebellion of 1918 as an "arbitrary military act for political reasons".
The graves of Max Reichpietsch and Albin Köbis on the grounds of the Wahn Luftwaffe barracks are still inaccessible to the general public. To visit the graves, a permit from the German Armed Forces and the associated registration is required. In October 2007, the Federal Government justified the visit restrictions, in response to a request from the Left Party, with the statement that the political motives of the sailors and the events of 1917 had not yet been adequately researched in German military historiography.
Political use
The New Apostolic Church (NAC) in the GDR (namely 'senior officials') propagated to the state organs the fact that both Albin Köbis and Max Reichpietsch were New Apostolic and supporters of the revolutionary anti-war movement as a right to exist in the real existing socialism.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Reichpietsch (Google translated)
She was present at the Battle of Jutland
After the end of the First World War was she interned in Scapa Flow on 25 November 1918.
On 21 June 1919, she was scuttled by her own crew, capsized, and sank.
From 29 April 1936, she was scrapped on site.
Max Reicpietsch, who is also depicted on this stamp,
Max Reichpietsch ( October 24, 1894, in Charlottenburg – September 5, 1917, near Wahn ) was a German sailor and in 1917 one of the organizers of the anti-war movement in the German Imperial Navy.
life
Both Reichpietsch and his parents were New Apostolic Christians. At the age of 18, he had volunteered for the Navy in 1912. Under the impression of the war, among other things as a participant in the Battle of the Skagerrak, combined with the harassment of the officers and the lack of food – lower ranks were less well looked after than the officers - he turned into an opponent of the war.
As a sailor on the large liner SMS FRIEDRICH DER GROSE, he was, together with the chief fireman Willy Sachse and the sailor Wilhelm Weber, as well as the firemen Albin Köbis and Hans Beckers stationed on the large liner SMS PRINZREGENT LUITPOLD, the organizer of the anti-war movement among the sailors of the High Seas Fleet in the summer of 1917. Various sailors, including Reichpietsch and Köbis, maintained contact with the USPD leadership that summer.
Reichpietsch was arrested and sentenced to death in a court-martial on August 26, 1917, as the "main ringleader" for "complete uprising" along with Köbis, Sachse, Weber, and Beckers. Reichpietsch had previously received a total of fourteen disciplinary and court-martial terms for various offenses including lateness, absenteeism, disobedience, and theft. The death sentence imposed on him was one of 150 during the entire war in the German Reich, of which only 48 were carried out.
The death sentences imposed on Sachse, Weber, and Beckers were commuted to prison terms of 15 years each. On September 5, 1917, the death sentences against Max Reichpietsch and Albin Köbis were carried out at the Wahn shooting range near Cologne. Today the Wahn Air Force barracks are located there.
Wilhelm Dittmann, left-wing social democratic politician and member of the Reichstag, judged the court proceedings in his later writing The Marine Judicial Murders of 1917 and the Admirals' Rebellion of 1918 as an "arbitrary military act for political reasons".
The graves of Max Reichpietsch and Albin Köbis on the grounds of the Wahn Luftwaffe barracks are still inaccessible to the general public. To visit the graves, a permit from the German Armed Forces and the associated registration is required. In October 2007, the Federal Government justified the visit restrictions, in response to a request from the Left Party, with the statement that the political motives of the sailors and the events of 1917 had not yet been adequately researched in German military historiography.
Political use
The New Apostolic Church (NAC) in the GDR (namely 'senior officials') propagated to the state organs the fact that both Albin Köbis and Max Reichpietsch were New Apostolic and supporters of the revolutionary anti-war movement as a right to exist in the real existing socialism.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Reichpietsch (Google translated)
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