(1863-09-13)13 September 1863 Weilheim in Oberbayern, Bavaria, German Confederation
Died
25 May 1932(1932-05-25) (aged 68) Othmarschen, Weimar Republic
Allegiance
German Empire
Service/branch
Imperial German Navy
Years of service
1881–1918
Rank
Admiral
Commands held
Second Torpedo Unit
SMS Leipzig
SMS Friedrich Carl
SMS Gneisenau
First Torpedo Boat Division
SMS Yorck
I Scouting Group
High Seas Fleet
Battles/wars
World War I
Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby
Battle of Dogger Bank
Battle of Jutland
Awards
See below
Franz Ritter von Hipper (13 September 1863 – 25 May 1932) was an admiral in the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). Franz von Hipper joined the German Navy in 1881 as an officer cadet. He commanded several torpedo boat units and served as watch officer aboard several warships, as well as Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht SMY Hohenzollern. Hipper commanded several cruisers in the reconnaissance forces before being appointed commander of the I Scouting Group in October 1913.
He is most famous for commanding the German battlecruisers of the I Scouting Group during World War I, particularly at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916. During the war, Hipper led the German battlecruisers on several raids of the English coast, for which he was vilified in the English press as a "baby killer". His squadron clashed with the British battlecruiser squadron at the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915, where the armored cruiser Blücher was lost. At the Battle of Jutland, Hipper's flagship Lützow was sunk, though his ships succeeded in sinking three British battlecruisers. In 1918 he was promoted to succeed Admiral Reinhard Scheer as commander of the High Seas Fleet.
After the end of the war in 1918, Hipper retired from the Imperial Navy with a full pension. He initially lived under an alias and moved frequently to avoid radical revolutionaries during the German Revolution of 1918–1919. After the revolution settled, he moved to Altona outside Hamburg. Unlike his superior, Reinhard Scheer, he never published a memoir of his service during the war. Hipper died on 25 May 1932. The Kriegsmarine commemorated him with the launching of the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper in 1938.
1937; Admiral Hipper entered service shortly before the outbreak of war, in April 1939. The ship was named after Admiral FranzvonHipper, commander of...
August 1918, Scheer was promoted to the Chief of Naval Staff; Admiral FranzvonHipper replaced him as commander of the fleet. Together they planned a final...
Scouting Group in August 1918, succeeding FranzvonHipper. After the armistice that ended World War I, Konteradmiral von Reuter was requested to take command...
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were assigned to the I Scouting Group under the command of Admiral FranzvonHipper. The unit conducted several raids of the English coast between 1914...
German Kaiserliche Marine. The unit was famously commanded by Admiral FranzvonHipper during World War I. The I Scouting Group was one of the most active...
10/23/1918; Previously awarded the 3rd Class with Crown and Swords Vice ADM FranzvonHipper (?), German hero of the Battle of the Jutland; awarded the Order, 2nd...
deputy commander, Konteradmiral (Rear Admiral) FranzvonHipper, from 21 to 26 September. On 1 October, Von der Tann became the flagship of the 3rd Admiral...
disturbances in Berlin, refused to abdicate. A week later, Admiral FranzvonHipper and Admiral Reinhard Scheer without authorization made plans to dispatch...
by the German battlecruiser squadron (Admiral FranzvonHipper) with the battlecruisers SMS Seydlitz, Von der Tann and Moltke, the slightly smaller armoured...
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Fleet, adopted a strategy in which the battlecruisers of Rear Admiral FranzvonHipper's I Scouting Group raided British coastal towns to lure out portions...
Navy) in 1894 and rapidly rose in rank, becoming chief of staff for FranzvonHipper in 1912. Raeder's rise up the ranks was due mostly to his intelligence...
at the Battle of Jutland. Later Chief of the Admiralty Staff (1918) FranzvonHipper − Commander of I Scouting Group and conducted several raids along the...
Moltke and Von der Tann were able to cross the Jade bar; Hipper ordered the German light cruisers to fall back to his ships, while Hipper himself was...
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