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The Wardroom
Vice
Admiral
Johan Olfert Fischer |
Join the
Wardroom
The
Wardroom invites you to learn more of the Officers in question.
The build up of these
pages will be divided into three phases.
Phase One - The Military Records
First you will find military records/short biographies
for of most of the Navy Officers mentioned on this
web-site.
These short biographies are mainly based upon the
sources referred to below, ad are primary detailing their military records. |
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here for the
Index of Naval Officers
Military Records/Biographies...
Phase Two - The Heroes
The
second part will bring more detailed biographies of some of the com-manders and
officers.
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Years back, my elder brother would constantly
claim, that the civil service and the military were one big playground for
indifferent leaders.
During 30 years of service, I have met some of
those. Those who felt that a tennis lawn was an important issue to their career.
Fortunately, those indifferent leaders were a small minority.
A great number of talented commanders and leaders
have been doing their outmost for the Royal Danish Navy and to fly the flag,
despite various political majorities.
The history of the Royal Danish-Norwegian Navy,
and from 1814 The Royal Danish Navy, has shown that the real heroes are still
there. |
Lieutenant
Peter Willemoes
commanding the Floating Battery no. 1 during
the Battle of Copenhagen,
April 2, 1801
- one of the
well known
Danish naval heroes |
Some heroes are more known to the public than others.
Almost any Danish child know Niels Juel and Olfert
Fischer, and not to forget Tordenskjold and Willemoes.
Actually, there are a great number of real heroes,
not well known to the public. There deeds are indeed as glamorous. Those deeds
will be revealed on this website as well.
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Rear Admiral
Carl Wilhelm Jessen
- not that known to the public,
but still a great hero |
The Definition of a Hero
"Daddy, how come that someone's are called heroes?
This is a reasonable question for a son to ask his
father, specially on some memorial day.
However, if the father wants to be honest to his
son, he can't just answer; that everyone risking his life in combat, is a hero!
- He might better answer this: There are no heroes.
You will find people doing their outmost duty, and
people acting on behalf of their conscience. Some of them died during those
duties. They probably all anticipated to survive the dangerous situations,
that were going to be their final.
No human being wants to risk his life; however,
some people are prepared to run a risk - even a great risk. |
Those, that you named heroes, were ordinary
people. Probably, they were all afraid of dying.
We try to remember those, for they did their
outmost."
Above is a translation of: Hvad venter vi på?
(What are we waiting for?), by Hans Edvard Teglers, published by Spektrum,
Copenhagen, 1966.
Phase Three
The third phase will be the military records for all Officers of the Royal Danish Navy serving during the
timeline of this web-site.
The construction of the database and scanning the photos are time consu-ming, so
please be patient.
Most biographies of the Danish Naval officers are based on the sources lis-ted
below. In many cases further information have been added. In these cases further
sources are listed at the actual page.
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here for the
Index of Naval Officers
Military Records/Biographies...
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Sources: |
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Danske Søofficerer 1933-1982, edited by
S. E. Pontoppidan and J. Teisen,
published by Søe-Lieutenant-Selskabet,
Copenhagen, 1984 |
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Det Danske
Søofficerskorps 1801-1919, by
Th. A. Topsøe-Jensen, Gyldendals Boghandel
and Nordisk Forlag, Copenhagen, 1919 |
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Officerer i den
Dansk-Norske Søetat 1660-1814 og den Danske Søetat 1814-1932, Bind I og II,
by
Th. A. Topsøe-Jensen og Emil
Marquard,
H. Hagerups Forlag, Copenhagen,
1935 |
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Naval Bibliography |
- Do you miss a major event on this Site,
or do you hold a great story?
Are you able to contribute to the unfolding of
the Danish Naval History,
please
e-mail
me, enclosures are welcome.
Please remember to list your sources.
You
can also use the
Naval
Web Forum on this web-site.
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