Adolf von Trotha

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Adolf von Trotha
Admiraal Adolf von Trotha.jpg
Born(1868-03-01)1 March 1868
Koblenz, Kingdom of Prussia
Died11 October 1940(1940-10-11) (aged 72)
Berlin, Germany
AllegianceGerman Empire
Service/branch Imperial German Navy
Vorläufige Reichsmarine (1919-20)
Years of service1886-1920
RankAdmiral (1939)
Commands held
Spouse(s)Anna von Veltheim

Adolf von Trotha (1 March 1868 – 11 October 1940) was a German admiral in the Kaiserliche Marine. After the German revolution he briefly served as the first Chef der Admiralität, which replaced the imperial Reichsmarineamt. After supporting the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch of March 1920 he resigned his post.

Family[]

Trotha was born 1 March 1868 at Koblenz, at the time part of the Rhine Province of the Kingdom of Prussia. Trotha was the third son of (1834–1870), who was killed in the Franco-Prussian War, when his son was only two years old.

Trotha married Anna von Veltheim (15 January 1877 – 8 August 1964) on 4 June 1902, the daughter of Fritz von Veltheim and Elizabeth von Krosigk.

Military career/development[]

Trotha entered the Imperial Navy in 1886 as an officer candidate and was promoted to Leutnant zur See in 1891. He served as a commander of the torpedo boat D3 and as a navigations officer on the small cruiser SMS Seeadler.

In 1900 he was a staff officer at Tientsin. From 1914 to 1918, Trotha served in World War I. In 1916 he became Chief of Staff of the High Seas Fleet.[1]

As Chef der Admiralität from March 1919 Trotha was a (non-voting) ex-officio member of the first two cabinets of the Weimar Republic, the Scheidemann cabinet and the Bauer cabinet from March 1919 until March 1920.[2][3]

In March 1920, he supported the failed Kapp Putsch and resigned his post.[4]

Trotha was the head of the de:Grossdeutscher Jugendbund and the Sudetendeutscher Heimatbund. In 1934 he became the president of the Deutscher Flottenverein.[1]

After his death on 11 October 1940 a state funeral was held in Berlin.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Files of the Reichskanzlei: Adolf von Trotha(German)". Bundesarchiv. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Files of the Reichskanzlei: Das Kabinett Scheidemann (German)". Bundesarchiv. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Files of the Reichskanzlei: Das Kabinett Bauer(German)". Bundesarchiv. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  4. ^ Bird, Keith Weimar, the German Naval Officer Corps and the Rise of National Socialism, Grüner, 1977, page 69.
  • Hildebrand, Hans; Henriot, Ernest (1990). P — Z. Deutschlands Admirale : 1849-1945 : die militärischen Werdegänge der See-, Ingenieur-, Sanitäts-, Waffen- und Verwaltungsoffiziere im Admiralsrang (in German). 3. Osnabrück: Biblio-Verl. pp. 460–461. ISBN 3764814993.

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