Bernhard Rösing
Bernhard Gustav Rösing, was a Vizeadmiral of the Kaiserliche Marine during the World War I. Rösing commanded from November 1911 to December 1912 and from November 1916 to November 1918.Career
Rösing was born on 29 October 1869 in New York. He was the third of eight children of the lawyer and diplomat Dr Johannes Rösing and his wife Clara, née von Ammon in 1888. Following his attendance of the Naval Academy in Kiel he progressed in rank from midshipmen, to the lieutenant ranks, to captain, and admiral. From 1908, he worked in the Naval Office in Berlin. The marriage with the architect's daughter and the Naval officer Rudolf von Eickstedt's stepdaughter Elfriede Wünsche produced one daughter and four sons, three of which were killed in action in World War II. After the war, he was commissioned to dissolve the imperial shipyard in Danzig.
