The Deutschland incident refers to two separate incidents involving ships named Deutschland.
The Deutschland incident of 1902
The first "Deutschland incident" refers an incident in March 1902 with a German passenger steamer from the Hamburg America Line named SS Deutschland. The Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt Actien Gesellschaft ( HAPAG for short often referred to in English as Hamburg America Line, sometimes also Hamburg-Amerika As the transatlantic liner Deutschland Launched in 1900 she won the Blue Riband from the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the North During a famous passage over the Atlantic, where the ship was carrying Prince Henry, the brother of the Kaiser back to Europe from a highly publicized visit to the United States, the steamer was prevented from using her Slaby-d'Arco system of wireless telegraphy as the Marconi radio stations refused its radio traffic through their nets and blocked the rival system. Prince Henry, who tried to send wireless messages to both the US and Germany, was outraged.
Marconi shore stations refused, except in the case of emergency, to accept messages from ships operating equipment from other sources. This brought up a number of questions of fairness -- competitors claimed the Marconi companies were trying to set up a worldwide monopoly, while Marconi charged that his competitors were little more than parasites, wanting to take advantage of the investment his company had made in setting up the expensive shore stations. [1]
The Deutschland incident of 1937
The second Deutschland incident refers to an incident during the Spanish Civil War: On May 29, 1937, the Republican air force attacked Nationalist air bases and the port of Ibiza. The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted Coup d'état committed by parts of the army against the government of Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ibiza (Eivissa is an island located in the Mediterranean Sea about 80 km off the coast of Spain The German pocket battleship Deutschland, which was part of the International Non-Intervention Committee Patrol entered the area of the port to threaten the Republican planes. Description Their size and characteristics were severely limited by the Treaty of Versailles, which limited Germany to ships of no more than 10000 tons displacement The purpose of Non-Intervention Committee (1936-1939 was to prevent personnel and matériel reaching the warring parties of the Spanish Civil War. Two Russian pilots, Captain Anton Progrorin and Lieutenant Vassily Schmidt, dropped their bombs on the Deutschland, causing severe damage on the ship and killing 31 sailors. The following day German forces bombed the Republican held city of Almería to repress Republican air attacks on the Deutschland. Because of the Deutschland incident, Germany and Italy left the meetings of the Non-intervention committee. The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer shelled the port and the city of Almería with 200 shells, causing 19 deaths, 55 wounded, and destroying 35 buildings. History During World War II Admiral Scheer, under Captain Theodor Krancke, was by far the most successful capital ship Commerce raider of the war [2] German and Italian warships were concentrated in the Mediterranean Sea next to Spain, and were starting to take a more active role in the supporting of Nationalist forces.
Kriegsmarine dead
Buried on the 31 May 1937
- Friedriche Gerhard
- Reinhold Zimmermann
- Walter Lolitz
- Christain Gallus
- Karl Schoellkopf
- Felix Faltin
- Heinrich Rolbers
- Werner Fischer
- Joseph Denno
- Wilhelm Schmitz
- Herman Bruckner
- Rudolf Inglen
- Josef Mils
- George Woldwebber
- Heinz Bismark
- Oswald Sehn
- Willi Buche
- Otto Martens
- Alfred Oelrich
- Matias Bochem
- Richard Martin
- Kurk Manja
- Johann Schubert
- Heinz Maenning
Buried on 1st June 1937
- Albert Steizer
Buried on 2nd June 1937
- Albert Eckart
Died in the Military Hospital on 6th June but not buried at Gibraltar
- Hermann Durr
The bodies of the dead were later returned to Germany and received an honor guard.