Andrei Eberhardt
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Andrei Augustovich Ebergard (Russian: Андрей Августович Эбергард; 9 November 1856 – 19 April 1919), better known as Andrei Eberhardt, was an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy of German ancestry.[1]
Biography
Eberhardt was born in Patras, Greece, where his father, August Eberhardt, served as the consul for the Russian Empire. He had Westphalian ancestry; his grandfather Johann Karl Eberhardt moved from Hamburg to Russia during the early-19th century. He was not baptised a Lutheran but an Orthodox because his mother was Russian.
Eberhardt graduated from the
Minister of the Navy, in office: 1882-1888) and in 1891 he became a flag officer to Admiral Pavel Petrovich Tyrtov commanding the Russian Pacific Squadron. In 1896 Eberhardt transferred to the Black Sea Fleet, serving as gunnery officer on the battleships Ekaterina II and Chesma. In 1898 he moved back to the Russian Far East; he commanded the cruiser Admiral Nakhimov and took part in suppressing the Boxer Rebellion
of 1899-1901 in China.
During the
Russo–Japanese War of 1904-1905 Eberhardt served as chief naval aide to Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, the Viceroy of the Russian Far East (in office: 1903-1904). In 1905 he captained the battleship Imperator Aleksandr II and in 1906 became captain of the battleship Panteleimon
. He was promoted to rear admiral in 1907 and to vice admiral in 1909.
Eberhardt served as Chief of the
Aleksandr Kolchak
succeeded him in June 1916.
Eberhardt retired from service in December 1917. The
Petrograd
.
Honours and awards
- Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class with swords and bow (December 28, 1900), 3rd degree with swords, 2nd class with swords
- Gold Sword for Bravery
- Order of the White Eagle, with swords,
- Order of St. Alexander Nevskywith diamonds (for the Black Sea Fleet Command in 1914-1916.)
- Order of St. Stanislaus, 1st and 2nd classes
- Order of St. Anne, 1st and 2nd classes
- Order of St Michael and St George (United Kingdom)[citation needed]
- Order of the Rising Sun (Japan)
- Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword (Sweden)
- Knight Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, also awarded Commander and Chevalier (France)
- Commander of the Order of the Redeemer (Greece)
Notes
- ^ McLaughlin 2002
- ^
Langensiepen, Bernd; Güleryüz, Ahmet (1995). Cooper, James (ed.). The Ottoman Steam Navy, 1828-1923. Translated by Cooper, James. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 47. ISBN 9781557506597. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
1 March 1915: Russian warships begin a blockade of the coal ports on the Anatolian coast.
References
- Stephen McLaughlin, The Action off Cape Sarych, In Warship 2001-2002 Conways Maritime Press
External links
Media related to Andrei Augostovich Eberhardt at Wikimedia Commons