Eduard Karl Emanuel von Jachmann (2 March 1822 – 21 October 1887) was the first ''
Vizeadmiral'' (vice admiral) of the
Prussian Navy
The Prussian Navy (German language, German: ''Preußische Marine''), officially the Royal Prussian Navy (German Language, German: ''Königlich Preußische Marine''), was the naval force of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1701 to 1867.
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. He entered the navy in the 1840s after initially serving in the
merchant marine. In 1848, Jachmann received his first command, the
corvette
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; through the 1850s and early 1860s, he held several other commands, including the
frigate
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The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and maneuvera ...
s —aboard which he took part in the
Eulenburg expedition to
East Asia
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—and . During the
Second Schleswig War
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in 1864, he commanded Prussian naval forces in the Baltic from ''Arcona'', and led a small squadron at the
Battle of Jasmund on 17 March. Though defeated in that battle, he was promoted to ''
Konteradmiral'' (rear admiral) for his aggressive handling of the Prussian fleet.
Jachmann was the senior-most officer in the Prussian Navy by the mid-1860s, second only to
Prince Adalbert of Prussia. In 1867, Jachmann became the director of the Ministry of the Navy, and the following year, he was promoted to ''Vizeadmiral''. During the
Franco-Prussian War
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of 1870–1871, he commanded the squadron of
ironclad warship
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s based in the
North Sea
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, though his ships saw no action owing to engine difficulties. After the war, he oversaw the founding of the
Imperial Naval Academy at Kiel and the organization of the North Sea Naval Station. He expected to be named the first Chief of the
Imperial Admiralty in 1872, but he was passed over in favor of the
Prussian Army General
Albrecht von Stosch. Embittered by the decision, Jachmann retired from the navy in 1874.
Jachmann retired to
Oldenburg with his family, though he returned to naval affairs in 1878 following the accidental sinking of during a training cruise. Jachmann used the incident to attack Stosch, first through anonymously published letters criticizing his training program, and then as part of a
court martial
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that placed blame for the accident on
Carl Ferdinand Batsch, Stosch's protege. Jachmann thereafter left the public eye until his death on 21 October 1887.
Early life
Jachmann was born in
Danzig on 2 March 1822, the youngest of seven children, to Dr. R. H. Jachmann and Minna Jachmann (
née
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Schaff). Eduard attended grammar school in
Marienwerder. Against his father's wishes, Jachmann joined the
merchant marine as a
cabin boy
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Duties
Cabin boys ...
in Danzig in 1839; at the time, it was uncommon for an educated young man to join the shipping industry. Over the winter of 1842–1843, he attended the navigation school in Danzig and he passed his examination on 20 March 1843. He also served aboard ships on voyages to the Americas into 1844.
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Naval career
In early 1843, as the Prussian Navy
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looked forward to the completion of the corvette
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, it began searching for cadets at the Danzig navigational school to form the ship's crew. Jachmann was one of those studying at the school recruited into the navy; Jachmann came aboard the ship in 1844 while it was made available to the school for training purposes. During a training cruise that lasted from June to October 1845, Jachmann held one of the officer positions aboard the vessel, but he had not been officially promoted to officer rank. The cruise went into the Atlantic Ocean
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and into the Mediterranean Sea
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, and included stops in London, Genoa
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, Algiers
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, Madiera, and Portsmouth
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. Another Mediterranean cruise followed in July 1846; Jachmann served as the ship's executive officer
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In many militaries and police forces, an executive officer ...
, second in command to the captain, Jan Schröder
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Biography
Born in Koningsbosch, Schröder won his first professional race in 1961, when he outsprinted Henk Nijdam and Adriaan ...
, a Dutch officer who had been hired to provide naval expertise.[
On 27 May 1847, he was formally promoted to second lieutenant. A fourth training cruise followed four days later, lasting until October. On their return, Jachmann and the other officers were sent to winter quarters in Danzig. In November 1848, during the ]Revolutions of 1848
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and the concurrent First Schleswig War
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against Denmark, Schröder was promoted and Jachmann succeeded him as ''Amazone''s commander. Jachmann was promoted to first lieutenant
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The rank of lieutenant has different meanings in different military formations, but in most forces it is sub-divided into a se ...
on 29 March 1849. He took ''Amazone'' to Stettin
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for operations against the Danish fleet. She saw no action, however, as the Danes focused their attention on the larger '' Reichsflotte'' (Imperial Fleet) in Bremen
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. On 15 July 1850, the Danish blockade fleet entered Swinemünde and seized several Prussian vessels; Jachmann did not sortie to recapture the vessels, which cast suspicion on him and nearly cost him his command. ''Amazone'', of only , was too weak to challenge the Danish and the only other Prussian vessels in the area were small gunboats of even lesser value as warships. As a result, Jachmann was exonerated.[Stenzel, p. 592]
Through the 1850s, Jachmann held a variety of roles. He served as the executive officer aboard the frigate
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The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and maneuvera ...
, again as the commander of ''Amazone'', and as the shipyard director at the ''Königliche Werft'' (Royal Shipyard) in Danzig.[ During this period, Jachmann commanded a flotilla of ten ]gunboat
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History Pre-steam ...
s during exercises in July and August 1851. In 1855, Jachmann was promoted to the rank of ''Korvettenkapitän
(; ) is the lowest ranking Field officer, senior officer in the German navy.
Germany
Korvettenkapitän, short: KKpt/in lists: KK, () is the lowest senior officer military rank, rank () in the German Navy.
Address
The official manner, in li ...
'' (Corvette Captain).[Sondhaus, p. 49] On 3 December 1856, he was appointed as the Director of the Technical Department of the Admiralty.[ Jachmann was promoted again in 1859, to the rank of '']Kapitän zur See
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Equivalent ranks worldwide include ...
'' (''KzS''—Captain at Sea). By this time, Jachmann was the third highest-ranking officer in the Prussian Navy, behind only Prince Adalbert of Prussia and the Swedish captain Henrik Sundewall.[
From 1859 to 1862, he commanded the frigate during the Eulenburg expedition to East Asia. Sundewall, the squadron commander, flew his flag aboard the frigate ; in addition to ''Thetis'', his command also included the ]schooner
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and the clipper ship
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Clippers were gen ...
''Elbe''. The ships, without ''Elbe'' as she sailed to Singapore
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directly, sailed to Rio de Janeiro
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and then to Cape Town
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before meeting with ''Elbe'' in Singapore. There, the squadron embarked the diplomat
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Friedrich Albrecht zu Eulenburg. On arriving in China, Eulenberg concluded a trade treaty with the Qing
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government. On the way back to Germany, Jachmann had been instructed to investigate Patagonia
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as the site of a possible German colony, but he ignored the command, citing the poor condition of his ship after the long voyage to East Asia, and in particular after a severe storm had badly damaged her in South American waters. Indeed, Jachmann had to put into Salvador, Bahia
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in Brazil for repairs.
Wars of German unification
At the start of the Second Schleswig War
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in 1864, the bulk of the Prussian fleet was concentrated in the Baltic Sea
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. Prince Adalbert was the senior navy commander, and Jachmann, as the senior-most captain, became the squadron commander, with ''Arcona'' as his flagship
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. The much larger Danish fleet blockade
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A blockade differs from an embargo or sanction, which are ...
d Prussia's main ports, trapping Jachmann's ships—''Arcona'' and —in Swinemünde. On 17 March, Jachmann took his two ships and the armed paddle steamer
A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine driving paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. In antiquity, paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, whereby the first uses were wh ...
out to challenge the Danish blockade force. In the ensuing Battle of Jasmund off the island of Rügen
Rügen (; Rani: ''Rȯjana'', ''Rāna''; , ) is Germany's largest island. It is located off the Pomeranian coast in the Baltic Sea and belongs to the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
The "gateway" to Rügen island is the Hanseatic ci ...
, Jachmann's squadron was defeated by the more powerful Danish squadron and forced to retreat. This was to be the only major naval battle fought in the Baltic during the war. Nevertheless, he was appointed '' Konteradmiral'' (Rear Admiral) for his aggressive handling of the fleet at Jasmund. The arrival of a Danish ironclad warship
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precluded any further attacks on the Danish fleet, as the traditional guns that armed Jachmann's ships were entirely useless against the armored vessel.[
On 24 March 1865, with the fleet having returned to its demobilized, peacetime status, Jachmann was given command of the ''Marinestation der Ostsee'' (Naval Station of the Baltic Sea). Later that year, Jachmann moved the fleet to its new main base at ]Kiel
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in the newly annexed Duchy of Schleswig
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. There, he was responsible for establishing the new base, the land defenses for which were established at Hörup Haff and Holtenau Bay under the direction of Generals Helmuth von Moltke, the Chief of the General Staff
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, and Albrecht von Roon
Albrecht Theodor Emil Graf von Roon (; 30 April 1803 – 23 February 1879) was a Prussian soldier and statesman. As Minister of War from 1859 to 1873, Roon, along with Otto von Bismarck and Helmuth von Moltke, was a dominating figure in Pruss ...
, the Prussian Minister of War. Later that year, Jachmann accompanied Roon aboard ''Loreley'' for a survey of the Jade Bay, where the naval base at Wilhelmshaven
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was planned. Jachmann remained in his post in the Baltic Sea during the Austro-Prussian War
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, commanding the main squadron of frigates and corvettes. Before the outset of hostilities, he sent the gunboat to Elbe
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to block the movement of an Austrian brigade
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that was garrisoned in Holstein
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Holstein once existed as the German County of Holstein (; 8 ...
. Since the Austrian fleet was occupied with Prussia's ally Italy during the war, the Prussian Navy saw relatively little action; the only major operations were conducted in the North Sea
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, under the command of ''KzS'' Reinhold von Werner.[Stenzel, p. 593]
On 17 July 1867, Jachmann attended the fleet review held in Spithead
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, Britain in honor of the Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz
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. On 22 August, he became of the director of the Ministry for the Navy, serving under Roon. Jachmann and Roon were good friends, which led to an effective partnership between the two. Jachmann presented his fleet plan in October that year, as part of Roon's overall military budget. The plan projected a ten-year construction program for sixteen ironclad warships, twenty corvettes, and eight aviso
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s. Jachmann included the large number of corvettes to bring pro-colonialist factions to support the plan, though he was himself ambivalent to colonial aspirations. The ''Reichstag'' approved Roon's budget without objection.[ Jachmann was promoted to '' Vizeadmiral'' (''VAdm''—Vice Admiral) on 22 March 1868;][ he was the first man to hold that rank in the Prussian Navy.][Stenzel, p. 591] By mid-1869, the ironclads that the navy had begun to acquire under Jachmann's direction had started to enter service, permitting the formation of an ironclad squadron.
At the start of the Franco-Prussian War
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in July 1870, Jachmann left Berlin to take command of the ironclad squadron based in Wilhelmshaven. At the time, Jachmann had under his control the ironclads , , , and . Work had not yet been completed on the fortifications outside Kiel and Wilhelmshaven; Jachmann ordered the acquisition of naval mine
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s, a technology then still in its infancy, to help defend the German coast. The French Northern Squadron had arrived off the North Sea coast to blockade Germany's ports. He sortied with the fleet in late August, but located no French warships. ''König Wilhelm'' and ''Friedrich Carl'' thereafter developed engine problems, preventing Jachmann from taking further offensive actions, for which he was publicly criticized. For its part, the French blockade was poorly planned and achieved little of significance. By 11 September, all four of his ships were again operational, but by that time the French fleet had abandoned the blockade. Owing to the ineffectiveness of the ironclad fleet, none of its officers were decorated after the war.
Later career
With the war over, Jachmann returned to Berlin to several projects, including organizing a North Sea naval station and conducting an evaluation of the naval mines used during the war. He also oversaw the rapid expansion of the base at Wilhelmshaven and the establishment of the Imperial Naval Academy at Kiel. The two s were ordered from British shipyards in the anticipation that France would launch a war of revenge in the near future. Jachmann came under intense criticism in the press and the ''Reichstag'' for the orders, since they had not been given to German shipyards, though at that time German shipbuilders were not sufficiently developed to build vessels of that size quickly.
In 1872, the navy command was reorganized as the Imperial Admiralty. As the highest ranking naval officer, Jachmann expected to be given the role as the Chief of the Imperial Admiralty, but General Albrecht von Stosch received the position instead. Jachmann had not proved himself an effective administrator in the 1860s, nor had he impressed Wilhelm I with his handling of the fleet during the Franco-Prussian War. Instead, he remained the commander of the active naval forces, and was given a spot on the Admiralty board, though Stosch never actually convened the board while Jachmann was in the navy. Following the death of Prince Adalbert in June 1873 and the retirement of Roon the following October, Jachmann lost his most powerful friends, and Stosch largely ignored him. The fact that Jachmann came from a middle-class background and had no formal higher education served to isolate him in the officer corps Stosch sought to create, which was modeled on the aristocratic army officer corps. Jachmann requested retirement in February 1874; he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle
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, 1st Class with Swords, on 17 February and thereafter left the service. Stosch then purged numerous other senior officers with similar backgrounds.
In May 1878, the new ironclad was accidentally rammed and sunk by ''König Wilhelm''. Jachmann, still bitter at being passed over in favor of Stosch, anonymously published an article in ''Deutsche Revue'' severely criticizing Stosch's training policies, which he alleged favored military discipline and theory over practical seamanship. Jachmann was appointed a member of the court martial that investigated the accident and the role of Carl Ferdinand Batsch—the captain of ''König Wilhelm'' and Stosch's protege. Jachmann was at that time not known to be the author of the article, and he did not recuse himself. The court ruled against Batsch but did not issue a punishment. Batsch appealed to Stosch, arguing that Jachmann and the also retired ''VAdm'' Eduard Klatt had not been impartial judges. Kaiser
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Wilhelm I
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agreed to appoint a second court martial that did not include either man.
Jachmann retired to Oldenburg with his family, which included his wife Anna (whom he had married in 1852 in Trutenau near Königsberg
Königsberg (; ; ; ; ; ; , ) is the historic Germany, German and Prussian name of the city now called Kaliningrad, Russia. The city was founded in 1255 on the site of the small Old Prussians, Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teuton ...
), his daughter, and three sons. One of his sons, Siegfried von Jachmann, went on to serve in the Imperial Navy and reached the rank of ''Konteradmiral''. Eduard appeared in public one last time on 18 May 1885, after Wilhelm I called on him to give the christening speech for the new corvette in Danzig. Jachmann died in Oldenburg on 21 October 1887.[Verchau, pp. 212–213]
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