List of Danish vice admirals

This is a list of vice admirals in the Royal Danish Navy. The rank of vice admiral is the second highest rank currently achievable by serving officers. It ranks above counter admiral and below admiral.

Persons listed are shown with the rank of vice admiral. Those who only held the rank of vice admiral on an acting basis are not shown.

List of vice admirals

1600

Portrait Name
(birth–death) 		Appointed Ref.
Jørgen Biørnsen
(1596–1680) 		1 May 1651 [1]
Nicolaj Helt [da]
(?–1667) 		1656 [2]
Peter Bredal [da]
(c. 1630–1658) 		20 July 1658 [3]
Iver Hoppe [da]
(1649–1693) 		1 July 1684 [4]
Cornelius de Witt
(?–?) 		7 October 1684 [5]

1700

Portrait Name
(birth–death) 		Appointed Ref.
Just Juel [da]
(1664–1715) 		5 March 1712 [6]
Christian Carl Gabel [da]
(1679–1748) 		15 May 1715 [7]
Peter Wessel Tordenskiold
(1690–1720) 		17 August 1719 [8]
Johan Anthon von Paulsen [da]
(1687–1736) 		10 November 1727 [9]
Christian Koningh
(1677–1749) 		26 September 1736 [10]
Rasmus Krag
(1680–1755) 		26 September 1736 [11]
Hans Jacob Rostgaard
(1685–1756) 		28 October 1746 [12]
Vilhelm Lemvig [da]
(1690–1768) 		4 September 1747
(À la suite) 		[13]
Caspar von Wessel [da]
(1693–1768) 		4 September 1747
(À la suite) 		[14]
Johan Conrad Wodroff [da]
(1690–1747) 		4 September 1747 [15]
Michael Christian Tønder [da]
(1692–1755) 		11 October 1752 [16]
Olfert Fasvier Fischer
(1700–1761) 		7 September 1758 [17]
Christian Carl von Basballe
(1732–1783) 		29 May 1765 [18]
Jørgen Torbiørnsen
(1698–1771) 		22 July 1769 [19]
Friderich Zimmer
(1702–1774) 		30 September 1772 [20]
Johan Cornelius Krieger [da]
(1725–1797) 		31 July 1790 [21]
Ole Stephansen [da]
(1714–1791) 		24 September 1790 [22]
Andreas Lous
(1728–1797) 		23 December 1796
(À la suite) 		[23]
Adam Gottlob Ferdinand Moltke [da]
(1748–1820) 		22 December 1797
(À la suite) 		[24]

1800

Portrait Name
(birth–death) 		Appointed Ref.
William Walker Stockfleth [da]
(1737–1818) 		6 April 1804 [25]
Anton Frederik Lützow [da]
(1744–1819) 		28 January 1817 [26]
Jens Schou Fabricius
(1758–1841) 		23 August 1821 [27]
Olfert Fischer
(1747–1829) 		4 January 1825 [28]
Adolph Tobias Herbst [da]
(1746–1825) 		4 January 1825 [29]
Jost van Dockum [da]
(1753–1834) 		16 April 1833 [30]
Peter Caspar Wessel Brown [da]
(1755–1840) 		20 July 1834
(À la suite) 		[31]
Frederik Christian Riisbrigh [da]
(1754–1835) 		1 August 1834
(À la suite) 		[32]
Johan Johnsen
(1765–1847) 		25 December 1835 [33]
Hans Stephensen
(1773–1851) 		29 March 1848 [34]
Jens Peter Stibolt [da]
(1774–1860) 		19 October 1848
(À la suite) 		[35]
Andreas Schifter
(1779–1852) 		3 August 1851 [36]
Christian Christopher Zahrtmann [da]
(1793–1853) 		2 April 1852 [37]
Conrad Emil Mourier
(1795–1865) 		1 April 1853 [38]
Johan Anton Meyer
(1799–1875) 		28 February 1860 [39]
Jens Seidelin [da]
(1790–1863) 		30 March 1863
(À la suite) 		[40]
Steen Andersen Bille
(1797–1883) 		18 January 1864 [41]
Edouard Suenson
(1805–1887) 		5 August 1880
(À la suite) 		[42]
Carl Irminger [da]
(1802–1888) 		5 August 1880
(À la suite) 		[43]
Julius Meldal [da]
(1827–1901) 		21 February 1886 [44]
Niels Frederik Ravn
(1826–1910) 		8 July 1891
(À la suite) 		[45]
Hans Henrik Koch
(1836–1903) 		19 July 1897 [46]
Fritz Peter Adolph Uldall
(1835–1911) 		2 January 1899 [47]

1900

Portrait Name
(birth–death) 		Appointed Ref.
Carl Frederik Wandel
(1843–1930) 		9 March 1905 [48]
Otto Joachim Moltke Kofoed-Hansen
(1854–1918) 		1 October 1911 [49]
Anton Ferdinand Mazanti Evers
(1857–1951) 		27 April 1918 [50]
Georg Hugh Robert Zachariae
(1850–1937) 		5 October 1918
(À la suite) 		[51]
Henri Konow
(1862–1939) 		1 April 1923 [52]
Georg Carl Amdrup
(1866–1947) 		7 February 1927 [53]
Henri L. E. Wenck
(1872–1933) 		1 December 1931 [54]
Hjalmar Rechnitzer [da]
(1872–1953) 		1 April 1932 [55][56]
A. H. Vedel
(1894–1981) 		1 August 1941 [57]
Hans Alfred Nyholm
(1898–1964) 		1 June 1958 [58]
Svend Erik Pontoppidan
(1900–1987) 		1 June 1961 [59]
Sven Støckel Thostrup
(1915–2006) 		1 December 1965 [60]

See also

References

Citations
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  2. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935a, p. 561.
  3. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935a, p. 195.
  4. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935a, p. 632.
  5. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 719.
  6. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935a, p. 683.
  7. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935a, p. 422.
  8. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 626.
  9. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 299.
  10. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 20.
  11. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 32.
  12. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 411.
  13. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 83.
  14. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 687.
  15. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 726.
  16. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 653.
  17. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935a, p. 368.
  18. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935a, p. 75.
  19. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 621.
  20. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 762.
  21. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 46.
  22. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 551.
  23. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 112.
  24. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 197.
  25. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 567.
  26. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 149.
  27. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935a, p. 344.
  28. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935a, p. 366.
  29. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935a, p. 569.
  30. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935a, p. 300.
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  33. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935a, p. 673.
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  36. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 447.
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  38. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 213.
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  40. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935b, p. 506.
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  52. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935a, p. 24.
  53. ^ Topsøe-Jensen & Marquard 1935a, p. 22.
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