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Juel-Brockdorff, N.
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Personal Information |
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Full Name: |
Niels Juel-Brockdorff, baron |
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Date of Birth: |
July 19, 1878 |
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Place of Birth: |
Hollufgård at Odense |
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Family
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Son of chamberlain, baron Carl
Juel-Brockdorff and wife baroness Julie Sophie Thora Anna Caroline,
born Reedtz-Thott |
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Marriage: |
Married October 11, 1904 in Holmens
Kirke to the unmarried daughter of a count Karen Henriette Caroline
Scheel |
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Promotions |
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Promotion: |
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1896 |
Naval Cadet |
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August 27, 1900 |
Sub Lieutenant |
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April 1, 1904 |
Lieutenant |
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August 4, 1915 |
Commander |
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September 1, 1924 |
Commander (Naval Reserve) |
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December 3, 1930 |
Commander s.g. (Naval Reserve) |
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Orders, Decorations &
Distinctions |
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Orders, Decorations &
Distinction: |
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October 18, 1916 |
Officer of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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May 17, 1930 |
Silver Cross of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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October 29, 1946 |
Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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March 19, 1956 |
Knight Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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Military Service |
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Service: |
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1900-1901 |
On the schooner
INGOLF to the
Danish West Indies |
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1903 |
On the Inspection vessel BESKYTTEREN
to the Faeroe Islands and Iceland, charts survey |
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1905-1907 |
Passed the Naval Academy |
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1907 |
On the cruiser
GEJSER til the Faeroe Islands and Iceland, escorting HM the
King on the S/S BIRMA |
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1907-1908 |
On the schooner
INGOLF to the
Danish West Indies |
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1909 |
On the Inspection vessel ISLANDS FALK
to Iceland |
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1910 |
Commanding Officer of the torpedo boat
MAKRELEN in the Squadron and fishery protection |
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1911 |
On the coast defense ship
HERLUF
TROLLE |
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1911 |
Trainee on the submarine
DYKKEREN |
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1912-1913 |
Commanding Officer on the submarine
DYKKEREN |
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1913-1918 |
Commanding Officer on the submarines |
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September 3, 1918
- February 28, 1919 |
1st officer at the School for Naval
Cadets |
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March 1, 1919
- February 1, 1922 |
On leave |
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November 1922
- June 1923 |
At he Naval Dockyard in Copenhagen,
assisting in the commissioning of the light cruiser
NIELS IUEL |
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August 1, 1923
- October 22, 1923 |
Commanding Officer of the coast defense
ship
OLFERT FISCHER |
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October 22, 1923
- July 15, 1924 |
Chief in Command of the Submarine
Division |
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October 22, 1923
- April 1, 1924 |
Commanding Officer of the submarine
ROTA |
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August 31, 1924 |
Honorable discharge |
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July 31, 1938 |
Honorable discharge from the Naval
Reserve |
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September 19, 1939
- March 27, 1940 |
Voluntarily joined the Danish partly
mobilized forces |
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September 21, 1939
- December 16, 1939 |
Chief in Command of the Naval District
Jutland North (in Skagen) |
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December 21, 1939
- March 27, 1940 |
Naval and Air Attaché at the
Representation in London, U.K. |
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Other Achievements |
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1908-1949 |
Patron at the Roskilde adelige
Jomfrukloster |
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October 9, 1916 |
Participated in the salvage operation
following the sinking of the submarine
DYKKEREN off Copenhagen.
He was awarded the Officer of the Order of the Dannebroge in
recognition of his bravery.
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March 1, 1919 |
In the merchant navy, master for
different ships of the East Asiatic Company (EAC) |
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October 26, 1921
- November 7, 1922 |
Master of the 5-masted EAC training ship
KØBENHAVN on its first voyage |
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September 1, 1924
- 1935 |
Employed at the EAC as manager for the
Ships and Engine Inspection |
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1933-1950 |
Member of the board for the Association
for Promotion of Shipping ("Foreningen til Søfartens Fremme") |
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1935
- August 31, 1939 |
Director of the Inspectors Department of
the EAC |
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1939-1948 |
Member of the Sø- and Handelsretten
(Commercial Court) |
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1939-1959 |
Chairman of the foundation Georg Stages
Minde |
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1940-1950 |
Chairman of the board for the
Association for Promotion of Shipping ("Foreningen til Søfartens
Fremme") |
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1941-1956 |
Chairman of the board for the Mariners
Foundation Bombebøssen |
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Additional Comments |
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Wrote the book "Spredte Erindringer gennem 80 år",
published 1960 |
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Death |
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Cemetery: |
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March 17, 1964 |
Buried at the Hellerup cemetery |
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Sources: |
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Danske Søofficerer 1933-1982, edited by
S. E. Pontoppidan and J. Teisen,
published by Søe-Lieutenant-Selskabet,
Copenhagen, 1984 |
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Det Danske
Søofficerskorps 1801-1919, by
Th. A. Topsøe-Jensen, Gyldendals Boghandel
and Nordisk Forlag, Copenhagen, 1919 |
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Officerer i den
Dansk-Norske Søetat 1660-1814 og den Danske Søetat 1814-1932, Bind I og II,
by
Th. A. Topsøe-Jensen og Emil
Marquard,
H. Hagerups Forlag, Copenhagen,
1935 |
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