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Wenck, Henri L. E.

Personal Information

Full Name:

Henri Lucien Erik Wenck

Date of Birth:

June 7, 1872

Vice Admiral Henri Wenck

Place of Birth:

Paris, France

Family
Relations:

Son of wholesaler Johannes Theodor Wenck and wife Ingeborg Marie, born Kjær

Marriage:

Married to Frieda Karen Cecilie Møller at the St. Marcus Church in Copenhagen on August 7, 1926

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Promotions

Date:

Promotion:

1888

Naval Cadet

August 29, 1892

Sub Lieutenant

December 8, 1897

Lieutenant

October 11, 1909

Commander

May 25, 1918

Captain

December 24, 1924

Rear Admiral

December 1, 1931

Vice Admiral

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Orders, Decorations & Distinctions

Date:

Order, Decoration or Distinction:

October 18, 1909

Officer of the Order of the Dannebroge

April 24, 1919

Silver Cross of the Danish Order of the Dannebroge

April 2, 1922

Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge

August 22, 1930

Knight Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge

July 1, 1932

Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge

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Military Service

Date:

Military Service:

1893-1896

Passed the Army Officers Academy, senior class, artillery

1900-1901

On the schooner INGOLF to the Danish West Indies

1901

Adjutant to the Squadron and CO of the gun boat GRØNSUND

1911

CO of the Torpedo Boat Flotilla

1911-1914

Department Manager of the Navy Staff

August 5, 1914
- March 31, 1919

Chief of Staff at the Navy Supreme Command (Danish Partly Mobilized Forces)

April 1, 1919

Chief of the Navy Staff

1920-1921

CO of the coastal defense ship PEDER SKRAM on winter exercises

October 1921

Danish delegate to a conference in Geneva on the neutral status of the Islands of Aaland

1921

Delegate representing the Danish Foreign Office at a conference a Paris discussing the borders at sea between Denmark and Germany

1923

CO of the Training Flotilla

February 1924

Danish delegate to a conference in Rome, Italy, on the limitations of armaments at sea

1926-1928

CO of the Ships Division

January 16, 1928
- April 1, 1932

Chief of the Naval Staff

December 1, 1931
- March 32, 1932

Inspector of the Navy

April 1, 1932

Ordered as a technical advisor to the Danish delegation at the international conference in Geneva on arms limitations

June 30, 1932

Discharge from the Navy

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Other Achievements

Date:

Achievement:

1911

Received a gold medal from "Søe-Lieutenant-Selskabet" for a treatise on the use of torpedo boats

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Additional Comments

None

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Death

Date:

Cemetery:

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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