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Topsøe-Jensen, T. A.
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Personal Information |
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Full Name: |
Theodor Andreas Topsøe-Jensen |
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Date of Birth: |
December 24, 1867 |
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Place of Birth: |
Copenhagen |
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Family
Relations: |
Son
of Supreme Court Solicitor Gottlieb Andreas Jensen and wife Caroline Marie
Augusta, born Topsøe |
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Marriage: |
Married to Johanne, born Vermehren |
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Promotions |
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Date: |
Promotion: |
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1884 |
Naval Cadet |
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August 27, 1888 |
Sub Lieutenant |
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December 21, 1891 |
Lieutenant |
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April 1, 1905 |
Commander |
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May
14, 1917 |
Captain |
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January 15, 1926 |
Rear Admiral |
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Orders, Decorations &
Distinctions |
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Date: |
Orders, Decorations &
Distinction: |
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July 27, 1900 |
Officer of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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January 23, 1918 |
Silver Cross of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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April 2, 1921 |
Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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November 30, 1927 |
Knight Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge |
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Military
Service |
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Date: |
Military
Service: |
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1892-1895 |
School Officer at the Petty Officers School |
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1893, 1894 and 1895 |
On
the brig ØRNEN, training ship for the Petty Officers School |
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1899-1900 |
On
the cruiser
VALKYRIEN to the Far East Asia |
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1901-1902 |
Adjutant with the Secretary of the Navy |
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1902 |
Adjutant with the Squadron |
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1903 |
1st
officer on the Royal Yacht
DANNEBROG |
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1904-1907 |
Adjutant with the Secretary of the Navy |
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1905 |
CO
of the gun boat
FALSTER on naval engineers training |
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1907-1908 |
CO
of the fishery inspection in the Danish waters |
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1908-1910 |
Department Manager at the Navy Staff |
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1910 |
On
the coastal defense ship
HERLUF TROLLE in Squadron |
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1911-1914 |
Lightship's Inspector and commander of the light inspection vessel
LØVENØRN |
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1914 |
Chief of Staff for the Squadron |
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1914-1915 |
Chief of Staff for the 1st Squadron |
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1915-1916 |
CO
of the cruiser
GEJSER in the Danish Partly Mobilized Forces |
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1916 |
CO
of the schooner
INGOLF, training ship for Able Seamen's School |
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1916-1917 |
CO
of the ironclad
SKJOLD in the Danish Partly Mobilized Forces |
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1917 |
CO
of the coastal defense ship
OLFERT FISCHER in the 2nd Squadron |
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December 31, 1917
-September 16, 1919 |
CO
of the Submarine and Flying Boat Flotilla |
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June 23, 1919
-September 16, 1919 |
Naval General Master of Supplies |
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1923 |
CO
of the light cruiser
NIELS
IUEL on sea trials |
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March 31, 1923
- June 2, 1924 |
CO
of the Ships Division |
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June 2, 1924
- March 31, 1925 |
Naval General Master of Supplies |
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July 1, 1925 |
CO
og the Coastal Defense og Copenhagen |
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February 7, 1927
-December 24, 1929 |
CO
of the Naval Base (Copenhagen) |
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December 24, 1929 |
Discharged due to age |
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Other Achievements |
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Date: |
Achievement: |
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1913 |
Member of the 1913 Commission on the Military Penal Code |
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February 27, 1918 |
Member of the Commissions to draft a new Military Penal Code and a new
legislation for the administration of military justice |
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1918 |
Member of the Commission about Military Aviation |
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June 15, 1918 |
Member of the Commission about the use of aircrafts in mail distribution |
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June 23, 1919 |
Member of the board of directors of the Sailors Association "Bombebøssen" |
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May
1924 |
Chairman of the board of directors of the Sailors Association "Bombebøssen" |
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August 1929
- September 1929 |
Permitted to travel to Greenland on leave |
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From 1931 |
Co-worker on the Danish Biographic Dictionary |
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Additional Comments |
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Royal resolution to change his last name to Topsøe-Jensen, issued on January
12, 1895. |
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Co-author of Officerer i den
Dansk-Norske Søetat 1660-1814
og den danske Søetat 1814-1932,
Copenhagen
1935. |
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Author of Det Danske Søofficerskorps 1801-1919, Gyldendals
Boghandel and Nordisk Forlag, Copenhagen, 1919. |
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Death |
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Date: |
Cemetery: |
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September 15, 1941 |
Buried at 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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