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Hammer, Rørd R. J.
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Personal Information |
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Full Name: |
Rørd Regnar Johannes Hammer |
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Date of Birth: |
February 25, 1855 |
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Place of Birth: |
Wyck on Føhr |
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Family
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Son
of Captain Otto Christian Hammer and wife Henriette Jacobine |
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Marriage: |
Married to Fanny Eleonora Hedemann |
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Promotions |
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Promotion: |
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1871 |
Naval Cadet |
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August 18, 1875 |
Sub Lieutenant |
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September 13, 1876 |
Lieutenant |
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May
1, 1890 |
Commander |
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April 7, 1902 |
Captain |
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Orders, Decorations &
Distinctions |
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Orders, Decorations &
Distinction: |
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February 28, 1894 |
Officer of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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February 3, 1904 |
Silver Cross of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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January 21, 1910 |
Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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February 25, 1914 |
Knight Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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Military
Service |
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Military
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1875 - 1876 |
On
the corvette DAGMAR to the Mediterranean |
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1879 |
Participated together with J. A. D. Jensen (Bildsøe) and Kornerup in the
surveying and mapping of the West coast of Greenland, performing a survey of the Ice Fjord
of Jakobshavn the following winter |
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1880 |
Continue the survey on the Western site of Discos on Greenland |
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1883 |
Surveying the coasts and fjords on the West coast of Greenland |
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1884 - 1887 |
In
charge of the military surveying of the Danish Waters |
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1888 |
1st
officer on the corvette DAGMAR, Training ship for Naval Cadets |
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1889 - 1893 |
In
charge of surveying Danish waters |
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1894 |
On
the ironclad TORDENSKJOLD, Squadron exercises |
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1895 |
Master of the Bark HVIDBJØRNEN to Greenland |
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1896 |
On
the cruiser VALKYRIEN in Squadron |
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1897 |
Master of the schooner ABSALON, ice breaking in Danish waters |
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1898-1899 |
1stk officer at the Naval Academy |
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1898 |
Commanding Officer of the schooner ABSALON, training ship for naval
cadets |
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1899-1902 |
Head of the 1st department of the National Chart Archive |
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1899, 1900 and 1901 |
CO
of the schooner DIANA surveying Iceland and the Faeroe Islands |
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1902 |
CO
of the cruiser HEKLA to Iceland |
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1903-1910 |
CO
of the Naval Academy |
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1905, 1907 and 1909 |
CO
of the cruiser GEJSER on Artillery and Torpedo School |
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1905 and 1906 |
CO
of the ironclad SKJOLD in Squadron |
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1908 |
CO
of the ironclad OLFERT FISCHER in Squadron |
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1910-1915 |
Naval General Master of Supplies |
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February 25, 1915 |
Discharged due to age, but temporary service as the Naval General Master of
Supplies until September 16, 1915 (Danish Partly Mobilized Forces) |
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Other Achievements |
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Achievement: |
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1887-1889 |
Chairman of "Søe-Lieutenant-Selskabet" |
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1903-1911 |
Chairman of the teaching council for the Navy Schools |
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1910-1921 |
Chairman of the Greenland Society |
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1903-1917 |
Member of the board for the society "De danske Atlanterhavsøer" (Danish
Islands in the Atlantic) |
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August 1915 |
Escorting the bodies of the 15
British submariners killed at Saltholm, after the British submarine
E.13 ran
aground
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From 1917 |
Deputy Chairman of the Danish Red Cross |
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Additional Comments |
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&
Author
of Kaptainløjtnant O. C. Hammer, En Livsskildring,
Copenhagen, 1928 |
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Death |
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Cemetery: |
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May
16, 1930 |
Died in Copenhagen, buried at the Holmens kirkegaard |
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Sources: |
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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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