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by equipping them with guns and sending them in search of Allied merchant shipping. Most of the armed raiders were not particularly successful, but they did tie up considerable Allied forces in hunting them. By early 1915, most of the armed raiders had either been hunted down and sunk or else had run
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On 29 March 2004 the society "Felix Graf von
Luckner Gesellschaft" was founded in Halle, with the objective of commemorating Luckner's life and work, especially his role in safeguarding the city of Halle in April 1945. The society also wishes to create a memorial and museum for Luckner in Halle and
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Luckner for propaganda purposes, although as a Freemason Luckner was not in one of the Nazis' favoured groups of people. Luckner refused to renounce his membership in "the Craft" or the various honorary citizenships granted in the US, and consequently he suffered by having his bank
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For example, Count von
Luckner had great physical strength and was noted for his ability to bend coins between the thumb, index, and middle finger of his right hand and to tear up telephone directories (the thickest being that of New York City), with his bare hands. For this reason, on the occasion
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defied the captain (who had threatened him with a harpoon), and launched a lifeboat with the help of volunteers. As a number of albatrosses circled over
Luckner, one swooped down and seized his outstretched hand in its beak, but Luckner grabbed the bird in desperation. Although severely pecked, he
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on 22 October 1926. An entertaining speaker, he was widely admired for his seamanship and for having fought his war at sea with such a minimal loss of life. This opened many doors for him in the United States, where he spoke on hundreds of occasions across the country, both in German and later,
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came upon a single-funneled steamer, raised a signal requesting a time signal (not an uncommon thing for a sailing ship long out of contact with land to do), and raised the German ensign too late for the target ship to take any evasive action. Three shots were needed to persuade the 3,268 ton
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for a year, to obtain a naval commission. He had vowed not to return to his family except in uniform and was eventually welcomed back by his family, who had given him up for lost. In
February 1912 Luckner was finally called up by the Navy and served on the gunboat
1311:(CIB), maintained a surveillance of the Luckners during their visit, with the inspector in charge of the CIB in Brisbane, Bob Wake, attending a gala function arranged by the German Foreign Office in honour of the couple. The gala menu was decorated with a
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woman, Rose Janson, whom he provided with a passport he found on a bombsite, and which allowed her to subsequently escape to the United States via a neutral country. Towards the end of the war in April, Count von
Luckner was living in
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British blockade disguised as a Norwegian ship. Many of the crew of six officers and 57 men, including Luckner himself, had been selected for their ability to speak
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Republic, from which he was dishonourably discharged for "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman" in 1931. In 1937 and 1938, Luckner and his wife undertook a round-the-world voyage in his yacht
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Luckner out of the water. Not wishing to cause bloodshed, and not realizing the police were unarmed, Luckner and his party surrendered and were confined in a prisoner-of-war camp on
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troops within the town after the garrison refused to surrender. Count Luckner did not return to the town after hearing that local Nazis planned to subject him to execution without trial.
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was too large to enter the sheltered lagoon of Mopelia, and consequently had to anchor outside the reef. On 2 August, disaster struck. According to Luckner, the ship was struck by a
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which wrecked her on the reef. However, some American prisoners alleged that the ship drifted aground while the prisoners and most of the crew were having a picnic on the island.
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By this time, Luckner had the problem of feeding and keeping safe nearly 300 prisoners, in addition to his own crew. Consequently, when on 20 March, the French four-masted barque
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with his Swedish second wife Ingeborg Engeström until his death in Malmö at the age of 84 in 1966. However, his body was returned to Germany and was buried in the
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At the age of twenty, Luckner entered a German navigation training school, where he passed the examinations for his mate's ticket. By 1908 he had joined the
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and captured her at gunpoint. The French crew was put ashore with the other prisoners, and all the Germans embarked on the ship, which they renamed the
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discovered a four-masted barque in the moonlight and signalled "Stop immediately! German Cruiser". Bizarrely, the captain of the 2,206 ton French ship
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hidden behind hinged gunwales, several machine guns, and two carefully hidden 500 HP auxiliary engines. She was commissioned as the auxiliary cruiser
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The crew and their 46 prisoners were now stranded on Mopelia, but they managed to salvage provisions, firearms, and two of the ship's boats.
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next victim on 10 March was asked for the time, but ignored the signal. Luckner ordered a smoke generator to be lit, and the 3,609 ton
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considerably further south, before she entered the Pacific Ocean on 18 April and sailed north along the Chilean coast. By early June,
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Luckner was a prolific autograph signer, and his original autographs turn up frequently at auctions and estate sales.
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Von Luckner: A Reassessment. Count Felix von Luckner in New Zealand and the South Pacific. 1917–1919-and 1938.
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The Sea Devil: the Controversial Cruise of the Nazi Emissary von Luckner to Australia and New Zealand in 1938
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Between 1973 and 1975, a Franco-German Co-production company produced a 39-episode adventure series entitled
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presented Luckner with a motor car, and the city of San Francisco made him an honorary citizen. US President
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Graf Luckner der Seeteufel/Count Luckner the Sea Devil: Eine Biografie in Bildern / A Biography in Pictures
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1515:"The Sea Devil came Calling" --- Count von Luckner and his visit to Aitutaki: August/September 1917
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2129:– Mackenzie Gregory's weblog containing much information from a long fascination with Luckner.
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television network, featuring Luckner as the hero. The French sub-title was
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Although she had the same name, this was a different ship from the
1648:, Garden City Publishing Company, Inc, Garden City, New York, 1927.
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1569:, Koehler, Berlin and Leipzig, 1926, (first published 1921).
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regime and for this reason, Luckner became a target for
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and learned that the United States had entered the war.
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What Really Happened to von Luckners' Seeadler in 1917?
1889:. Mitcham, South Australia, Australia: Jacobyte Books.
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The History Makers: Adventures in New Zealand Biography
1663:. Mitcham, South Australia, Australia: Jacobyte Books.
1517:. Sovereign Pacific Publishing Company, Auckland, 2001.
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many of these contacts were arrested up and interned.
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Radical Sydney: Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes
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in his civilian sailing days, back in 1902. He took
2173:. Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc.
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Photograph and Prisoner of War files at Archives NZ
2091:, James N. Bade, University of Auckland (PDF file).
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1508:Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921
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336:Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
2250:World War I prisoners of war held by New Zealand
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1918:Third Battalion, 414th Infantry (15 May 1945).
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107:Die Piraten des Kaisers (The Emperor's Pirates)
2265:Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 1st class
1908:available from Digital Print, South Australia.
1783:, Volume XXXIX, Issue 46, 19 July 1919, p. 17.
1682:available from Digital Print, South Australia.
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858:was captured, Luckner arranged for the ship's
2240:Imperial German Navy personnel of World War I
1574:Seeteufels Weltfahrt: Alte und neue Abenteuer
1534:, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2010, pp. 223–230.
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751:The ensign which Luckner would raise on the
2177:Newspaper clippings about Felix von Luckner
1944:: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
1710:. Random House New Zealand. Auckland, 2002.
1501:"Count Felix von Luckner and the ' Pinmore'
1458:, vol. 6.) Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books.
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1811:. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
1465:Peter Lang GMBH, Frankfurt am Main, 2004.
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1541:, Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig, 1928.
1527:David McKay Co Inc, New York, NY, 1969.
1506:Gardiner, Robert (editorial director),
1479:, Doubleday. Sydney and Auckland. 1985.
866:under the command of Captain Mullen of
2255:German prisoners of war in World War I
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1738:Regarding personal names: Until 1919,
1703:, Arms and Armour Press, London, 1994.
1590:, Longmans Green and Co, London. 1928.
1555:, Woldni & Lindeke, Dresden, 1938.
1468:Bohse, Daniel & Sperk, Alexander,
362:(the Sea Devil), and his crew that of
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1567:Seeteufel: Abenteuer aus meinem Leben
1510:. Conway Maritime Press, London 1985.
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1610:"The Search for Von Luckner, Part 1"
1503:, Sea Breezes 66, 1992, pp. 772–776.
1422:Episode 26 of the television series
1417:"Les Aventures du Capitaine Luckner"
1282:propaganda by the Australian press.
1259:inspired one of their sons, a young
734:The next ship to be stopped was the
535:Felix von Luckner saw action at the
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2280:Recipients of the Gold Liakat Medal
1964:in which Luckner served during the
1432:The Count Felix von Luckner Society
1388:The Cruise of the Kronprinz Wilhelm
1382:Luckner wrote the introduction for
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2148:Winchester, Clarence, ed. (1937),
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1619:. Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst, 1988.
1245:Royal Military College of Duntroon
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2220:People from the Kingdom of Saxony
2079:Life as a prisoner of von Luckner
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1696:, Lodestar Press, Auckland, 1978.
1317:Australia declared war on Germany
1309:Commonwealth Investigation Branch
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396:, Germany, the great-grandson of
2300:Burials at the Ohlsdorf Cemetery
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1924:John Rison Jones, Jr. Collection
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1546:Aus dem Leben des 'Seeteufels'
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