Hugo Meurer

Life

Meurer was born in Sallach in Carinthia. On 16 April 1886 he joined the Kaiserliche Marine.

During the First World War he served as commander of SMS Deutschland at the Battle of Jutland, and from 1916 to 1917 as captain of the battleship SMS König. In 1917 he was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral (Konteradmiral), as the second Admiral of the 4th Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet, which he remained until the end of the war.[12]

From 21 February to 2 May 1918, as commander of the special unit (Sonderverband) of the Baltic Sea, he led the naval expedition for the German intervention in the ongoing civil war in Finland.[13] In November 1918 Meurer negotiated as representative of Admiral Franz von Hipper with Admiral David Beatty the details of the surrender of the German fleet.[14]

Meurer was also the naval station commander of the Baltic, based in Kiel. He retired in 1920 with the rank of vice-admiral of the Reichsmarine.

He died in 1960 in Kiel, where he was buried at the Nordfriedhof in Kiel.

Admiral Meurer reports to Admiral Beatty on HMS Queen Elizabeth about the transfer negotiations for the High Seas Fleet.

Notes
  1. Image of Meurer's Ribbon bar c. 1918: Weitze
  2. Imperial Naval Office (ed.): Marine Ordnungsblatt. No. 14 of June 15, 1918, p. 175.
  3. Imperial Naval Office (ed.): Marine Ordnungsblatt. No. 27 of 15 December 1917, p. 357.]
  4. Marine Cabinet (ed.): Ranking of the Imperial German Navy for the year 1918. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1918, p. 7.
  5. Image of Meurer's Ribbon bar c. 1918: Weitze
  6. Image of Meurer's Ribbon bar c. 1918: Weitze
  7. Image of Meurer's Ribbon bar c. 1918: Weitze
  8. Image of Meurer's Ribbon bar c. 1918: Weitze
  9. https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN749919604&PHYSID=PHYS_0019
  10. Marine Cabinet (ed.): Ranking of the Imperial German Navy for the year 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1914, p. 176.
  11. Marine Cabinet (ed.): Ranking of the Imperial German Navy for the year 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1914, p. 176.
  12. World War I Document Archive
  13. see de:Finnland-Intervention
  14. www.underwater-archaeology.org.uk: Scapa Flow Archived 2010-07-11 at the Wayback Machine; "Semaphore"


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