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Otto von Diederichs
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Ernst Otto von Diederichs (7 September 1843 – 8 March 1918) was a German admiral of the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire. During the Spanish–American War of 1898, he made an unsuccessful attempt to seize the Philippines.
Diederichs was born 7 September 1843 in Minden, Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia (now in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). He entered the Prussian naval officer candidate program along a circuitous route, with an incomplete secondary education, a short stint as a Prussian army cadet and service in the merchant marine.
After Naval School graduation at Kiel and Atlantic training voyages on the Prussian sail frigate SMS Niobe, he was commissioned Unterleutnant zur See [Lieutenant JG] in 1867. He served a brief tour aboard the royal yacht . During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 he commanded the coastal gunboat SMS Natter. Although a French fleet maneuvered in the North Sea where Natter was deployed, "the French battle plan had little impact on Diederichs' wartime service, which proved somewhat anticlimactic". After hostilities ended, his ship was deactivated. From 1871 to 1874, he attended several terms at the postgraduate Naval War College, the German Imperial Naval Academy (Marineakademie), with intermittent training cruises in a class with four future admirals.
Based on his academic work at the academy, he was posted to the torpedo research command. After that staff position, he requested and then was assigned to sea duty as executive officer of the corvette for a "two-year tour on the East Asian station beginning in October 1878". With the return of the ship to Wilhelmshaven and deactivation in 1880, Diederichs's new orders assigned him as gunnery and torpedo instructor to the undergraduate Naval School and the postgraduate Naval War College, both of which were in Kiel at the time. During his tenure at those schools, he participated in manoeuvres and exercises and several study trips abroad.
With the conclusion of the academic year 1890, Captain Diederichs became director of the Imperial Shipyard at Kiel.
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