Ernst Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler

Ernst Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler
After joining the Imperial Navy, he completed the usual training, held various positions as an officer, alternating between shore and board commands, and was finally transferred to the admiral staff in the fall of 1901, where he proved himself as head of the department for the military-political use of German ships abroad.
Birth name	Ernst Karl August Klemens Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler
Birth date	11 April 1864 (1864-04-11)
Place of birth	Burghausen, Bezirksamt Altötting, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Confederation
Death date	2 October 1934 (1934-10-03) (aged 70)
Place of death	Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, German Reich
Resting place	Friedhof St. Zeno in Bad Reichenhall, Germany
Allegiance	German Empire
Service/branch	Kaiserliche Marine
Years of service	1884–1919
Rank	Vizeadmiral
Battles/wars	World War I
Awards	Iron Cross Prussian Order of the Crown Red Eagle Order
Relations	∞ 1899 Kathinka Günter

Ernst Karl August Klemens Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler (11 April 1864 – 2 October 1934) was a German officer of the Kaiserliche Marine, finally Vice Admiral (Vizeadmiral) and State Secretary in the Imerial Naval Office (Reichsmarineamt) as successor of Admiral Eduard von Capelle during World War I.

Military career (chronology)

Kapitän zur See Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler as commandant of the German battelcruiser SMS "Moltke" during that ship's visit to the U.S. in June 1912.

• Easter 1884 Abitur at the Realgymnaisum in Nuremberg
• 21 April 1884 Joined the Imperial Navy and was sent to the Naval School (Marineschule)
• 1885 Training ship SMS "Moltke"
• 1887/88 Return to the Marineschule
• 1888/89 Training ship SMS "Stosch" (Mediterranean Sea)
• 1889/90 Gunboat (Kanonenboot) SMS "Iltis" with the German East Asia Squadron (Ostasiengeschwader)
• 1891/92 Adjutant of the 1. Abteilung/II. Matrosendivision in Wilhelmshavenn
• 1892/93 Commandant of the Tender SMS "Hay" with the Naval Artillery Inspection in Wilhelmshaven
• 1893/94 Watch Officer on board SM Aviso "Greif" with the Torpedo Test Command in Kiel
• 1894/95 Assistant with the Torpedo Test Command in Kiel, at the same time Watch Officer on board SM Hafenschiff "Luise"
• 1895/96 Assistant with the Torpedo Test Command in Kiel, at the same time Watch Officer on board SM Hafenschiff "Friedrich Carl"
• 1896/97 Watch Officer on board SM Panzerschiff I. Klasse "Brandenburg"
  • At the same time commanded to the Naval Academy (Marineakademie), I. Cötus
• 1897/98 Naval Academy (Marineakademie), II. Cötus
• 1898/99 Officer on the S. M. Yacht „Hohenzollern“
• 1900/01 Officer on the S. M. Linienschiff „Baden“
• Autumn 1901 Admiral Staff in Berlin
• 21 March 1905 Retired
  • Transferred to the fleet, Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler asked to leave in 1905 as a Lieutenant Commander for health reasons and joined the Krupp company as assistant to the management of the Germania shipyard in Kiel. The hope of being the successor to Vice Admiral retired Carl Barandon as Chairman of the Directorate in a reasonable time was not fulfilled; Krupp preferred ship and mechanical engineering technicians for senior positions.
• 9 March 1907 Return to the Imperial Navy and placed to disposal of the Chef der Marinestation der Ostsee (Chief of the Baltic Sea Naval Station) Vice Admiral Bernhard Otto Curt von Prittwitz und Gaffron
• October 1907 Commandant of the SMS "Hamburg" as successor of Oskar von Platen-Hallermund
  • In February 1908, Hamburg embarked on a major training cruise into the Atlantic with the other ships of the Reconnaissance Unit. The vessels steamed as far as Spain, where they visited Vigo. The ship once again escorted Hohenzollern from 6 March to 19 May. During this period, the two ships—along with the dispatch boat Sleipner—cruised to the Mediterranean Sea. They stopped in Venice, Italy, and the Greek island of Corfu before departing on 5 May to return to Germany. She then returned to fleet duties, which included a major training exercise in the North Sea and a cruise by the entire High Seas Fleet. Hamburg was scheduled to be decommissioned during the winter of 1908–1909, as soon as the new cruiser Dresden was ready to take her place. But the turbine-powered cruiser proved to have trouble completing her initial testing, which forced Hamburg to remain in service for another year. Another cruise to Spain took place in February 1909, during which time Hamburg again stopped in Vigo from 17 to 23 February. Another summer cruise to Norway followed from 18 July to 3 August 1908, and upon their return to German waters, Hamburg was detached to resume fleet service. She took part in the annual fleet maneuvers in late August and early September for the first time in her career. She was then decommissioned in Wilhelmshaven on 15 September, as by that time, Dresden was finally ready for service.
• 5 September 1909 Commandant of the SMS "Friedrich Carl", at the same time President of the Torpedo Test Command (Torpedoversuchskommando) in Kiel
• 30 September 1911 to January 1913 First Commandant of the new SMS "Moltke" (lead ship of the Moltke-class battlecruisers)
  • From 11 May to 29 June 1912, the Moltke undertook a voyage to North America together with the small cruiser SMS Stettin. They ran from Kiel via Ponta Delgada to Cape Henry, where they met the station cruiser SMS Bremen. The cruisers sailed together into Hampton Roads, where they were received on 3 June by the US Atlantic Fleet in the presence of US President William Howard Taft. On the 8th/9th June 1912, the division, under the command of Rear Admiral Hubert von Rebeur-Paschwitz, moved to New York, where Moltke and Stettin began their march back to Germany via Vigo from 13 to 29 June 1912. The Moltke then became the flagship of the commander of the reconnaissance ships, Vice Admiral Gustav Bachmann.
• 12 January 1913 Commandant of the SMS "Kaiser" replacing Kapitän zur See Friedrich von Bülow, who had fallen ill
  • On 20 September 1913, he handed over command of the Kaiser to Captain Adolf von Trotha and became chief of staff of the High Seas Fleet (Chef des Stabes der Hochseeflotte) under Admiral Friedrich von Ingenohl. Due to illness, he was relieved of this position shortly after the outbreak of war in September 1914.
• 2 September 1914 Fallen ill and placed at the disposal of the Chief of the Naval Station of the Baltic Sea
• 3 November 1914 Acting Inspector of Torpedo Affairs
  • In his career so far he had often had the opportunity to work intensively with the new torpedo weapon. So he successfully carried out the task entrusted to him as inspector of the torpedo system.
• 22 March 1915 Inspector of Torpedo Affairs (Inspekteur des Torpedowesens)
• 5/11 December 1917 Director of the new U-boat Office, Imperial Naval Office (Direktor des neu gegründeten U-Boot-Amtes im Reichsmarineamt)
  • 22 September 1918 At the same time, acting State Secretary of the Imperial Naval Office; It was no longer the State Secretary (as under Alfred von Tirpitz) who determined the line of naval policy, but rather the Naval War Command (Seekriegsleitung) under Admiral Scheer, who had also secured the commission and appointment of Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler.
• 5 October 1918 State Secretary of the Imperial Naval Office (Staatssekretär des Reichsmarineamtes)
  • At the same time Plenipotentiary to the Bundesrat
  • 6 November 1918 In his reaction to the military collapse, the mutiny in the High Seas Fleet and the November Revolution, Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler only differed from the majority of naval officers in one point: he suggested to the cabinet of Prince Max von Baden the formation of “citizen and peasant militias” as self-help organizations, because the military alone cannot control the revolutionary movement.
• 13 February 1919 Retired

Family

Descent

Ernst was the son of the Bavarian Captain Klemens Karl Ludwig Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler (1829–1903) and his wife Auguste, née Rink (1840–1921). He had one older and one younger sister. Father Klemens Karl Ludwig was the younger brother of Major a. D. Ernst Heinrich Paul Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler (1822–1895), both sons of Colonel a. D. Karl Wenzeslaus Joseph Alois Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler (1773–1854). Ernst Heinrich Paul was the grandfather of Hermann Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler and Ferdinand Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler who would both become generals of the Wehrmacht.

Marriage

On 16 January 1899 in München, Kapitänleutnant Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler married his fiancée Kathinka Günter (1878–1955), daughter of the staff auditor (Stabsauditeur) Franz Günter and his wife Franziska, née von Mann. They had one son:

• Friedrich Franz Klemens (1899−1985), Dr. phil., Diploma in Agriculture (Diplom-Landwirt) (University of Breslau) and Upper Section Council (Obersektionsrat); ∞ c. 1939 Gertrud Elisabeth Schröter
  • Daughter: Sylvia (1940–2017); ∞ Bad Reichenhall 10 March 1962 Leonhard Graf von Enzenberg zum Freyen und Jöchelsthurn, three children (Manuela, Carina and Constantin)

Promotions

• 21 April 1884 Kadett (Officer Candidate)
• 16 April 1885 Seekadett (Officer Cadet)
• 16 April 1887 Unterleutnant zur See (2nd Lieutenant)
• 17 June 1890 Leutnant zur See (1st Lieutenant)
• 12 April 1897 Kapitänleutnant (Lieutenant Captain)
• 6 March 1903 Korvettenkapitän (Corvette Captain – Lieutenant Commander)
  • after his return to the German Navy on 9 March 1907, he received a new patent date: 6 March 1904
• 30 March 1908 Fregattenkapitän (Frigate Captain – Commander)
• 5 September 1909 (ernannt) Kapitän zur See (Captain at Sea – Captain) with patent from 12 December 1908
• 22 March 1915 Konteradmiral (Rear Admiral)
• 27 January 1918 Vizeadmiral (Vice Admiral)

Awards and decorations

Rank Seniority Lists 1914 (top) and 1918

• Prussian Order of the Crown, 4th Class
• Prussian Centenary Medal 1897 (Zentenarmedaille)
• Red Eagle Order (Roter Adlerorden), 4th Class
• Military Merit Order (Bavaria), Knight's Cross II. Class (BMV3b)
  • as of Rangliste 1904, reclassified as 4th Class (BMV4)
• Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion (Orden vom Zähringer Löwen), Knight's Cross II. Class (BZL3b/BZ3b)
• Ottoman Medschidie-Orden (Medjidie-Orden), 3rd Class (TM3)
• Imperial Russian Sankt-Stanislaus-Orden, II. Class (RSt2)
• Oak Leaves to his Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion Knight's Cross II. Class (BZL3bmE/BZ3bmE)
• Prussian Order of the Crown (Kronenorden), 3rd Class
• Crown to the Red Eagle Order 4th Class (PAO4mKr)
• Prussian Long Service Cross for 25 years (Königlich Preußisches Dienstauszeichnungskreuz)
• Order of the Redeemer (Greece), Commander (GE2b)
• Order of the Crown of Italy, Commander (JK3)
• Order of the Iron Crown (Austria), 2nd Class (ÖEK2)
• Russian Order of Saint Anna (St.-Annen-Orden), II. Class (RA2)
• Swedish Order of the Sword, Commander 2nd Class (SS2b) on 13 July 1909
• Ottoman Medschidie-Orden (Medjidie-Orden), 2nd Class (TM2)
• Red Eagle Order, 3rd Class with the Bow (mit der Schleife)
• Bavarian Prince Regent Luitpold Medal (Prinzregent-Luitpold-Medaille) in Bronze on the ribbon of the 1905 Anniversary Medal for the Army (1911)
• Prussian Order of the Crown, 2nd Class on 21 January 1912
• Diamonds to his Russian Order of Saint Anna II. Class (RA2mBr)
• Italian Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Commander (JM3)
• Iron Cross (1914), 2nd and 1st Class
• Oldenburg Friedrich-August-Kreuz, 2nd and 1st Class (OFA1/OK1)
• Lübeck Hanseatic Cross (Lübeckisches Hanseatenkreuz; LübH/LüH)
• Bavarian Military Merit Order (Königlich Bayerischer Militärverdienstorden), 2nd Class with Swords (BMV2⚔)
• Red Eagle Order, 2nd Class with Oak Leaves and Swords on 22 January 1917
• Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer