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Wenck, Henri L. E.
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Full Name: |
Henri Lucien Erik Wenck |
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Date of Birth: |
June 7, 1872 |
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Place of Birth: |
Paris, France |
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Family
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Son
of wholesaler Johannes Theodor Wenck and wife Ingeborg Marie, born Kjær |
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Marriage: |
Married to Frieda Karen Cecilie Møller at the St. Marcus Church in
Copenhagen on August 7, 1926 |
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Promotions |
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Date: |
Promotion: |
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1888 |
Naval Cadet |
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August 29, 1892 |
Sub
Lieutenant |
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December 8, 1897 |
Lieutenant |
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October 11, 1909 |
Commander |
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May
25, 1918 |
Captain |
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December 24, 1924 |
Rear Admiral |
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December 1, 1931 |
Vice Admiral |
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Orders, Decorations &
Distinctions |
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Order, Decoration or Distinction: |
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October 18, 1909 |
Officer of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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April 24, 1919 |
Silver Cross of the Danish Order of the Dannebroge |
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April 2, 1922 |
Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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August 22, 1930 |
Knight Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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July 1, 1932 |
Knight Grand Commander of the
Order of the Dannebroge |
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Military
Service |
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Military
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1893-1896 |
Passed the Army Officers Academy, senior class, artillery |
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1900-1901 |
On
the schooner
INGOLF to the Danish West Indies |
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1901 |
Adjutant to the Squadron and CO of the gun boat
GRØNSUND |
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1911 |
CO
of the Torpedo Boat Flotilla |
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1911-1914 |
Department Manager of the Navy Staff |
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August 5, 1914
- March 31, 1919 |
Chief of Staff at the Navy Supreme Command (Danish Partly Mobilized Forces) |
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April 1, 1919 |
Chief of the Navy Staff |
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1920-1921 |
CO
of the coastal defense ship
PEDER SKRAM on winter exercises |
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October 1921 |
Danish delegate to a conference in Geneva on the neutral status of the
Islands of Aaland |
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1921 |
Delegate representing the Danish Foreign Office at a conference a Paris
discussing the borders at sea between Denmark and Germany |
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1923 |
CO
of the Training Flotilla |
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February 1924 |
Danish delegate to a conference in Rome, Italy, on the limitations of
armaments at sea |
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1926-1928 |
CO
of the Ships Division |
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January 16, 1928
- April 1, 1932 |
Chief of the Naval Staff |
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December 1, 1931
- March 32, 1932 |
Inspector of the Navy |
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April 1, 1932 |
Ordered as a technical advisor to the Danish delegation at the international
conference in Geneva on arms limitations |
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June 30, 1932 |
Discharge from the Navy |
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Other Achievements |
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Date: |
Achievement: |
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1911 |
Received a gold medal from "Søe-Lieutenant-Selskabet" for a treatise on the
use of torpedo boats |
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Death |
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Cemetery: |
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August 10, 1933 |
Buried at Garnisions kirkegaard in Copenhagen |
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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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