Randall

Erich Raeder

Erich Raeder (April 24, 1876 - November 6, 1960), Nazi German admiral, was the first German to win the title after Alfred von tilpitz.

Reidel was a man who had an important influence on the modern German Navy. From October 1928, when he was the German Navy minister, to February 1943, when he voluntarily resigned as the commander in chief of the Navy due to differences with Hitler, Reidel actually led the German Navy for 15 years. Undoubtedly, the reconstruction and expansion of the German Navy in the 1930s and 1940s were deeply marked by Reidel.

Reidel remained in the Weimar Navy after the first World War. After becoming the commander in chief of the Navy, he secretly reorganized the weak German Navy, laid an important foundation for its future expansion, and asked the whole army not to interfere in politics. When Hitler came to power, Reidel put forward the Z plan of building a huge fleet to him, but the plan was terminated due to the wrong estimation of the time of the war with Britain, so he had to fight with a small number of troops.

During World War II, Ryder mainly attacked the Allied traffic lines with cruisers and fast warships, but he did not win a decisive victory though he made small gains. After that, he planned the "operation withersburg" to invade Norway and the "Rhine exercise" to send the Bismarck warship to attack the Atlantic route. Because the latter was sunk by the British army, Hitler's confidence in the surface fleet was completely lost, and his expectation of success was transferred to Carl Donitz's submarine troops, so Ryder was ignored. In 1943, when the surface fleet was ordered to be dismantled because it could not achieve Hitler's expected results, Reidel protested by resigning, and his position was replaced by Donitz. After the end of World War II, Ryder was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Nuremberg military court, but was released in 1955 and died in Kiel on November 6, 1960.

Life of the characters

Initial battle

Erich Reidel (1876.4.24-1960.11.6), German admiral (1939.4.1), military commander. Randall was born on April 24, 1876 in the town of vanzbeck, Hamburg. His father was the headmaster of gronburg high school in Silesia province. He graduated from his father's school in 1894 and was admitted to Kiel's naval academy. After six weeks of rigorous land-based training, he boarded the "stusch" training ship, received basic training in navigation, and participated in the training of sailing to the West Indies. On May 13, 1895, he was promoted to be a trainee officer and was sent to the "gnesinau" for probation. In the next training year, he began to study naval gun, mine and torpedo. On October 25, 1897, he got the best result in the naval officer examination. In 1897, Germany took part in the barbaric aggression against China in the late Qing Dynasty, which was a semi colonial and semi feudal society. The German fleet occupied China's Jiaozhou Bay and Qingdao, forcing the Qing government to lease the area. Then, the second German cruising fleet, under the command of crown prince Heinrich, arrived in East Asia, with the armored ship Deutschland as its flagship. Reidel was the communications officer above, and the conductor of the shipboard band. He not only developed his musical talent, but also developed his writing ability. His book "the rebellion in the Philippines" was especially appreciated by crown prince Heinrich. In April 1900, Ryder was promoted to lieutenant and transferred to the position of adjutant of the first brigade of the Navy. One year later, he was transferred to the position of the first navigation officer of the cricket. During a few weeks of recuperation due to knee injury, he wrote a research paper entitled "on the coordination of the army and navy in the Crimean War". In this regard, he showed special interest and made some successful attempts in the future battle of conquering Norway.

Soon after, Randall was sent to the warship William the great as a Guard officer. From October 1903 to June 1905, he was sent to Kiel Naval Academy for training. Because of his father's knowledge of English and French. During his training, he took Russian as an elective course, taught himself Spanish, and studied in Russia for three months.

In April 1905, Ryder was promoted to the rank of navy captain. After graduating from the Naval Academy, he was assigned to the coastal armored ship "friteyov" of the Baltic Reserve Fleet as a navigation officer. In April 1906, he was transferred to the head of the first section of the Naval Intelligence Service in Berlin. His duty is to collect and study foreign news reports, and to edit the magazines of naval observation and navigation. His work gave him the opportunity to get close to general Alfred von tilpitz, the writer Dr. rolbach, and even the German Emperor Wilhelm II. The latter also presented Red Eagle Medal of the fourth class to Ryder to encourage his writing achievements. He is a man of many talents, but he does not care about politics. Instead, he devotes himself to military affairs. During the period from October 1909 to March 1910, Reidel first served as a navigation officer on the "hohensoren", and later served on the emperor's yacht. The young captain had more contact with the emperor. William II appreciated him very much. When he sailed through Lisa Island, he asked him to make a special report on the victory of the Austrian Navy over the Italians in 1866 under the command of admiral von teghthoff. Since then, the emperor, who liked to discuss academic issues, has called on radel many times.

In April 1911, major Reidel was transferred to the patrol fleet commander, general Franz von Hippel, as chief staff officer, successively serving the "York" and the flagship "sedlitz". On November 3, 1914, when the first World War broke out, German cruisers attacked Yarmouth for the first time, and the "cedritz" was the main force of the attack. Later, in the fierce battle with the British navy, the "cedritz" was severely damaged, the "brucher" was sunk, and the British flagship "Lion" was bombed out of combat effectiveness. Ryder was awarded the first class Iron Cross for his military service.

After a long rest, the new commander in chief of the fleet, general Reinhardt Scher, directed a break into the skagrak Strait, where the biggest naval battle of the first World War took place on May 31, 1916. The German naval battleship "Lvchao" sank the British cruiser "Changsheng", but it also suffered heavy losses and had to transfer to another German cruiser "Maoqi" under enemy fire.

After the imperial government announced the implementation of unrestricted submarines, Ryder took part in the security work of covering submarines entering and leaving the port. In 1917, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. Nine months later, he realized his dream: he served as captain of a new small cruiser, Cologne, and was sent to patrol the North Sea.

At that time, the anti imperialist movement in Germany was on the rise, and the supplies were not enough, so the navy soldiers were generally tired of war. In August 1917, the military court of the fourth brigade of the ocean fleet sentenced five anti imperialist sailors to death for sedition. In less than a year, the monarchy of the German Empire was finally overthrown.

One year after the end of the war, Reidel was promoted to the rank of captain of the Navy. In July 1920, he was sent to the naval archives in Berlin to sort out the official naval battle information. He published two books in 1922 and 1923. The first book describes the history of the cruiser unit of Maximilian von Spey from the expedition to the destruction; the second book describes the operation and navigation of various small cruisers. While working in the naval archives, he studied at Berlin University in his spare time. When he was about to get a doctor's degree, he was promoted to a major general of the Navy, and served as the supervisor of the Naval Education Supervisor, in charge of the education work of various naval schools and two training ships.

Due to the Treaty of Versailles forbidding Germany to set up a headquarters of the general staff and a Naval University, Reidel established a secret training class for command and staff personnel, as well as various naval academies.

Rebuilding the Navy

In 1924, Reidel took over as commander of the North Sea light fleet, with the cruiser Hamburg as its flagship. In February of the following year, he was returned to Kiel and promoted to lieutenant general of the Navy as commander of the Baltic naval region.

On May 31, 1926, the tenth anniversary of the battle of skagrak, the school of philosophy of Kiel University conferred the honorary doctorate of Ryder. Two years later, Ryder was promoted to head of the naval Administration (i.e. commander-in-chief) and won the rank of admiral. At first, he disagreed with his immediate superior, Defense Secretary William glenner. He actively engaged in the expansion of the Navy, advocated the construction of cruisers and submarines, and devoted himself to this work. He established a semi military naval air force under the cover of the sign of Sevilla airlines.

Although he didn't care about politics, he had a good opinion of Hitler's national socialist movement. However, in the political turmoil after 1933, he strictly prohibited the Navy from getting involved in this vortex.

In February 1933, Hitler summoned Reidel for the first time and told him that he would never fight Britain, Japan or Italy. The naval fleet was built only to defend the European continent. And he suggested maintaining a 35:100 strength ratio with the British fleet.

On August 2, 1934, President Hindenburg died, and Hitler became his successor and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. On March 16 of the following year, Hitler declared the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles invalid. The British protested and sent foreign secretary Eden to Germany. On June 18, the two sides signed a naval agreement.

At this time, Ryder, who officially became the commander in chief of the Navy, was handed over to the training team

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