Friedrich von Ingenohl

Gustav Heinrich Ernst Friedrich von Ingenohl (30 June 1857 – 19 December 1933) was a German admiral from Neuwied best known for his command of the German High Seas Fleet at the beginning of World War I.

He was the son of a tradesman. He joined the navy in about 1874, and spent many years in the Far East. He commanded the gunboat from 1894 to 1896, aboard which he observed the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895. He moved to the Admiralty in Berlin in 1897, and in 1904 became the commander of the Kaiser's yacht Hohenzollern. He became an admiral in 1908 and was elevated to the nobility on 27 January 1909, adding "von" to his name. Order of the Red Eagle 3rd class with crown House Order of Hohenzollern Order of the Red Eagle 4th class with bow Order of the White Falcon