7 June 1919(1919-06-07) (aged 66) Uckermark district, Weimar Republic
Allegiance
Prussia North German Confederation German Empire
Service/branch
North German Federal Navy Imperial German Navy
Years of service
1869–1913 1915–1918
Rank
Großadmiral
Unit
West Africa Squadron East Asia Squadron Baltic Sea Naval Station
Commands held
Imperial Shipyard Danzig I Battle Squadron High Seas Fleet Imperial Admiralty Staff
Battles/wars
Franco-Prussian War Boxer Rebellion World War I
Awards
Order of the Black Eagle Pour le Mérite with oak leaves
Other work
Member of the House of Lords
Henning Rudolf Adolf Karl von Holtzendorff (9 January 1853 – 7 June 1919) was a German admiral during World War I, who became famous for his December 1916 memo about unrestricted submarine warfare against the United Kingdom. He was a recipient of Order of the Black Eagle and the Pour le Mérite with oak leaves and was one of just six Grand Admirals of the Imperial German Navy.
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officer, Henning von Holtzendorff, was designated Grand Admiral. Not even such well-known German commanders as Erich Ludendorff, Erich von Falkenhayn, or Reinhard...
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replaced in late 1909 by Vice Admiral HenningvonHoltzendorff, who served until April 1913. Vice Admiral Friedrich von Ingenohl, who would command the High...
awarded at least once with crossed marshals' batons, as was awarded to Paul von Hindenburg. The crossed batons were worn above the Maltese cross badge of...
sick leave; he contacted HenningvonHoltzendorff, the Chief of the Admiralty Staff, who disagreed with Scheer. Holtzendorff thought that relieving Hipper...
1939 and thus became the first person to hold that rank since HenningvonHoltzendorff. Raeder led the Kriegsmarine (German: War Navy) for the first half...
Hesse and by Rhine Henning von Holtzendorff Gilbert Hamilton Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler Friedrich von Ingenohl Georg von der Marwitz Philipp, Prince of...
under the successive control of Admirals Hugo von Pohl, Gustav Bachmann and HenningvonHoltzendorff, the Admiralty Staff closely directed German efforts...
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coast, he became commander of the Imperial High Seas Fleet in 1918 HenningvonHoltzendorff − Chief of the Admiralty Staff (1915–1918) and a strong advocate...
other orders, on September 18 the new head of the Admiralty Staff, HenningvonHoltzendorff, rendered these arrangements moot by giving an order on his own...
what they had found at the German military archives in Freiburg. Reporter Henning Seitz of Die Zeit wrote that the discovery "proves a continuity between...
under prize rules from September 1915 to January 1917. Admiral HenningvonHoltzendorff (1853–1919), chief of the admiralty staff, argued successfully...
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II requested the resignation of Capelle, HenningvonHoltzendorff, the Admiralty Chief, and Georg Alexander von Müller, the head of the Naval Cabinet. Capelle...
flagship for two years. At the time, the squadron commander was VAdm HenningvonHoltzendorff, and the unit consisted of the battleships Schlesien, Mecklenburg...