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Topsøe-Jensen, T. A.

Personal Information

Full Name:

Theodor Andreas Topsøe-Jensen

Date of Birth:

December 24, 1867

Rear Admiral T. A. Topsøe-Jensen

Place of Birth:

Copenhagen

Family
Relations:

Son of Supreme Court Solicitor Gottlieb Andreas Jensen and wife Caroline Marie Augusta, born Topsøe

Marriage:

Married to Johanne, born Vermehren

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Promotions

Date:

Promotion:

1884

Naval Cadet

August 27, 1888

Sub Lieutenant

December 21, 1891

Lieutenant

April 1, 1905

Commander

May 14, 1917

Captain

January 15, 1926

Rear Admiral

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Orders, Decorations & Distinctions

Date:

Orders, Decorations & Distinction:

July 27, 1900

Officer of the Order of the Dannebroge

January 23, 1918

Silver Cross of the Order of the Dannebroge

April 2, 1921

Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge

November 30, 1927

Knight Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge

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Military Service

Date:

Military Service:

1892-1895

School Officer at the Petty Officers School

1893, 1894 and 1895

On the brig ØRNEN, training ship for the Petty Officers School

1899-1900

On the cruiser VALKYRIEN to the Far East Asia

1901-1902

Adjutant with the Secretary of the Navy

1902

Adjutant with the Squadron

1903

1st officer on the Royal Yacht DANNEBROG

1904-1907

Adjutant with the Secretary of the Navy

1905

CO of the gun boat FALSTER on naval engineers training

1907-1908

CO of the fishery inspection in the Danish waters

1908-1910

Department Manager at the Navy Staff

1910

On the coastal defense ship HERLUF TROLLE in Squadron

1911-1914

Lightship's Inspector and commander of the light inspection vessel LØVENØRN

1914

Chief of Staff for the Squadron

1914-1915

Chief of Staff for the 1st Squadron

1915-1916

CO of the cruiser GEJSER in the Danish Partly Mobilized Forces

1916

CO of the schooner INGOLF, training ship for Able Seamen's School

1916-1917

CO of the ironclad SKJOLD in the Danish Partly Mobilized Forces

1917

CO of the coastal defense ship OLFERT FISCHER in the 2nd Squadron

December 31, 1917
-September 16, 1919

CO of the Submarine and Flying Boat Flotilla

June 23, 1919
-September 16, 1919

Naval General Master of Supplies

1923

CO of the light cruiser NIELS IUEL on sea trials

March 31, 1923
- June 2, 1924

CO of the Ships Division

June 2, 1924
- March 31, 1925

Naval General Master of Supplies

July 1, 1925

CO og the Coastal Defense og Copenhagen

February 7, 1927
-December 24, 1929

CO of the Naval Base (Copenhagen)

December 24, 1929

Discharged due to age

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Other Achievements

Date:

Achievement:

1913

Member of the 1913 Commission on the Military Penal Code

February 27, 1918

Member of the Commissions to draft a new Military Penal Code and a new legislation for the administration of military justice

1918

Member of the Commission about Military Aviation

June 15, 1918

Member of the Commission about the use of aircrafts in mail distribution

June 23, 1919

Member of the board of directors of the Sailors Association "Bombebøssen"

May 1924

Chairman of the board of directors of the Sailors Association "Bombebøssen"

August 1929
- September 1929

Permitted to travel to Greenland on leave

From 1931

Co-worker on the Danish Biographic Dictionary

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Additional Comments

Royal resolution to change his last name to Topsøe-Jensen, issued on January 12, 1895.

& Co-author of Officerer i den Dansk-Norske Søetat 1660-1814
      og den danske Søetat 1814-1932
, Copenhagen 1935.

& Author of Det Danske Søofficerskorps 1801-1919, Gyldendals
    Boghandel and Nordisk Forlag, Copenhagen, 1919.

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Death

Date:

Cemetery:

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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