Seewehr, literally Sea Defence was the maritime counterpart of the German Landwehr army reserve during the time of the Norddeutscher Bund and of the German...

December 1912 13 May 1895 17 February 1866  Imperial German Navy entered Seewehr on 15 December 1863 Iwan Friedrich Julius Oldekop 3 October 1844 7 January...

the beginning of the 1870s, and left in 1881 as a Kapitänleutnant of the Seewehr to work as a painter. In the naval service, he had visited South America...

Hanover. He organized the German coastal defenses and created a volunteer Seewehr as a naval militia. Falckenstein retired in 1873. He died at Dolzig (now...