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Felix von Luckner
Nickname(s)
Der Seeteufel (The Sea Devil) Die Piraten des Kaisers (The Emperor's Pirates)
Born
(1881-06-09)9 June 1881 Dresden, German Empire
Died
13 April 1966(1966-04-13) (aged 84) Malmö, Sweden
Allegiance
German Empire (1903-04, 1908-19) Weimar Republic (1918–22)
Pour le Mérite Iron Cross 1st Class Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Other work
Sailor, author, memoirist
Felix Nikolaus Alexander Georg Graf[1] von Luckner (9 June 1881, Dresden – 13 April 1966, Malmö), sometimes called Count Luckner in English, was a German nobleman, naval officer, author, and sailor who earned the epithet Der Seeteufel (the Sea Devil), and his crew that of Die Piraten des Kaisers (the Emperor's Pirates), for his exploits in command of the sailing commerce raider SMS Seeadler (Sea Eagle) during the First World War. After the war, Luckner became a war hero in Germany and was renowned around the world for his seamanship and chivalrous conduct during the war, which resulted in a minimal loss of life on both sides.
^Regarding personal names: Until 1919, Graf was a title, translated as Count, not a first or middle name. The female form is Gräfin. In Germany, it has formed part of family names since 1919.
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service as commerce raiders until the end of the war (for example, see FelixvonLuckner). After the battle, German naval experts were baffled at why Admiral...
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such as Maximilian von Spee, FelixvonLuckner, Karl von Müller, Hellmuth von Mücke, Otto Hersing, Otto Weddigen, and Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière...
Gandhi. First Indian appointed to Legislative Council. 1917 Count FelixvonLuckner arrested on Wakaya Island. 1918 14% of the population killed by the...
museum curator, and art educator Hanns Lothar (1929–1967), film actor FelixvonLuckner (1881–1966), navy officer and author Lev Lunts 1901–1924), Russian...
duties in these areas. Another brief flurry of activity occurred when FelixvonLuckner, imprisoned on Motuihe Island after being captured in the Society...
lighthouse, just south of the Hamelin Bay camping area. The young FelixvonLuckner, later a German World War I war hero, noted for his long voyage on...
to die in Ethiopia, and the first to be killed by an animal. Died: FelixvonLuckner, 84, German naval officer known during World War I as "the Sea-Devil"...
War I. One memorable incident occurred in September 1917 when Count FelixvonLuckner arrived at Wakaya Island, off the eastern coast of Viti Levu, after...
other interned aliens, among them Captain Carl Kircheiß and Count FelixvonLuckner. Being back in Germany that same year, Dibbern met Elisabeth Vollbrandt...
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operations in World War II for Nazi Germany Franz von Rintelen Johann Ewald Carl von Clausewitz FelixvonLuckner Athanasios Diakos Geórgios Karaïskákis Georgios...
exploration of the area in 1769. The island was briefly used by Count FelixvonLuckner as a hiding spot during World War One during his attempted escape...
Chronicle of the Scottish Nation. Edited by William Forbes Skene, translated by Felix J.H. Skene. Reprinted, Llanerch Press, Lampeter, 1993. ISBN 1-897853-05-X...
Global Information
German Empire (1903-04, 1908-19)
Weimar Republic (1918–22)
Imperial German Navy
Reichsmarine