Alfred Meyer-Waldeck

Overall view of Tsingtao, China, sometime between 1897 and 1914. The visit of Governor Sun Pao-Chi to Tsingtao in April 1910. Meyer-Waldeck is standing second from left. German 1912 map of the Shandong Peninsula showing the Jiaozhou Bay Leased Territory. Alfred Meyer-Waldeck (27 November 1864 – 25 August 1928), born Alfred Meyer, was a vice admiral in the Imperial German Navy. He was the final governor of the Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory from 1911 to 1914 and was most notable as the German naval commander in the Siege of Tsingtao during World War I.

Biography Early life Meyer-Waldeck was born Alfred Meyer in Saint Petersburg in the Russian Empire on 27 November 1864, the eighth of ten children of Friedrich Meyer and Dorothea von Boursy. His father was a professor of German literature and the editor of the German-language newspaper St. Petersburgische Zeitung. The family moved to Heidelberg in the German Empire in 1874, where Friedrich Meyer, who as an author used the surname "Meyer von Waldeck," was a professor at Heidelberg University. Alfred attended Gymnasium in Bonn and Heidelberg, and finished his secondary schooling when he took the Abitur in 1883. He then studied for two semesters at Heidelberg University.

Service Award Cross (Kingdom of Prussia)

Order of the Precious Brilliant Golden Grain (Republic of China)