Andrei Eberhardt

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Russian admiral

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honorific_prefixAdmiral
nameAndrei Eberhardt
birth_date
death_date
birth_placePatras, Greece
birth_nameAndrei Avgustovich Ebergard
death_placePetrograd, Russian SFSR
placeofburialNovodeviche Cemetery
placeofburial_labelPlace of burial
imageAdmiral Eberhardt 1912 photo by Mazur (cropped).jpg
allegianceRussian Empire
branch
serviceyears1878–1916
rankAdmiral
commandsBlack Sea Fleet
battlesBoxer Rebellion
Russo-Japanese War
World War I
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Andrei Augustovich Ebergard (; 9 November 1856 – 19 April 1919) was an Imperial Russian Navy admiral of German ancestry.

Biography

Eberhardt was born in Patras, Greece, where his father, August Eberhardt, served as the consul for the Russian Empire. He had Westphalian ancestry; his grandfather Johann Karl Eberhardt moved from Hamburg to Russia during the early-19th century. He was not baptised a Lutheran but an Orthodox because his mother was Russian.

Eberhardt graduated from the Russian Marine Cadet Corps in 1878. From 1882 to 1884 he served in the Siberian Military Flotilla as a signals officer. In 1886, he became a flag officer and adjutant to Admiral Ivan Shestakov (Minister of the Navy, in office: 1882-1888) and in 1891 he became a flag officer to Admiral commanding the Russian Pacific Squadron. In 1896 Eberhardt transferred to the Black Sea Fleet, serving as gunnery officer on the battleships Ekaterina II and Chesma. In 1898 he moved back to the Russian Far East; he commanded the cruiser Admiral Nakhimov and took part in suppressing the Boxer Rebellion of 1899-1901 in China.

During the Russo–Japanese War of 1904-1905 Eberhardt served as chief naval aide to Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, the (in office: 1903-1904). In 1905 he captained the battleship Imperator Aleksandr II and in 1906 became captain of the battleship Panteleimon. He was promoted to rear admiral in 1907 and to vice admiral in 1909.

Eberhardt served as Chief of the Russian Naval General Staff from 1908 and as Commander-in-Chief of the Black Sea Fleet from 1911. Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, his top achievement was setting up a naval blockade of the Zonguldak coal fields from 1915 and thus choking the coal supply of the German-Turkish fleet. | last1 = Langensiepen | first1 = Bernd | last2 = Güleryüz | first2 = Ahmet | translator1-last = Cooper | translator1-first = James | editor1-last = Cooper | editor1-first = James | title = The Ottoman Steam Navy, 1828-1923 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pT4hAQAAIAAJ | location = Annapolis, Maryland | publisher = Naval Institute Press | date = 1995 | page = 47 | isbn = 9781557506597 | access-date = 3 October 2020 | quote = 1 March 1915: Russian warships begin a blockade of the coal ports on the Anatolian coast. He also commanded the Russian battleship squadron during the Battle of Cape Sarych (near the Crimea) in November 1914. However, he showed reluctance to start further offensive actions against Ottoman positions in the Bosporus, and Aleksandr Kolchak succeeded him in June 1916.

Eberhardt retired from service in December 1917. The Cheka arrested him in 1918, but then released him. He died in 1919 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery () in Petrograd.

Honours and awards

Notes

References

  • Stephen McLaughlin, The Action off Cape Sarych, In Warship 2001-2002 Conways Maritime Press

References

  1. McLaughlin 2002

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