Wilhem Fleischer Personal profile

威廉.弗萊舍 個人檔案輯

Item number: C126-M247, C127-M247, C128-M247, C129-M247, C130-M247, C131-M247, M247, X2

Year: AD 1851-1919

Provenance: Künker 2023

In AD 1851, Wilhelm Fleischer was born in Westphalia, Germany. Later, as a senior engineer, he joined the German Navy and was responsible for the development of torpedo weaponry. In AD 1881, Fleischer was assigned to assist in the construction of the Imperial Chinese Navy. By AD 1889, Fleischer submitted his resignation to the German Navy and officially became a foreign advisor to the Imperial Chinese Navy. At that time, the Qing Empire, eager to catch up with the world, recruited European and American technical personnel with generous conditions. Fleischer, along with his wife and two daughters, settled in Shanghai to start a new life until he resigned and returned to Germany in AD 1895. To commend Fleischer’s contributions, the Qing court awarded him the Third Class, Second Grade Order, in accordance with the regulations for conferring the Order of the Double Dragon.

After returning to Germany, Fleischer headed the torpedo division at “Berliner Maschinenbau AG,” for which he was awarded the Fourth-Class Prussian Crown Order. Wilhelm Fleischer passed away in Berlin on January 15, AD 1919, at the age of 68.

These photographs and documents comprehensively showcase Fleischer’s professional and personal life in both China and Germany. They include images of him in Qing military uniform adorned with the Order of the Double Dragon, family portraits taken in Shanghai and Berlin, and a silhouette of the shared grave of his son, who died in World War I, and his second wife.

物件編號: C126-M247, C127-M247, C128-M247, C129-M247, C130-M247, C131-M247, M247, X2

年代: AD 1851-1919

來源: 昆克 2023

公元1851年，威廉.弗萊舍出生於德國西發里亞，後續以資深工程師身分投身於德國海軍，並負責魚雷武器的研製。公元1881年，弗萊舍被指派至清帝國協助其海軍建設。公元1889年，弗萊舍向德國海軍遞出辭呈，正式成為清帝國海軍的「洋員」顧問。彼時急於追趕上世界的清帝國以優渥條件招聘歐美的技術人員，弗萊舍攜帶妻子和兩個女兒定居於上海展開新生活，直到公元1895年辭職歸國。清廷為鼓勵弗萊舍的貢獻，按照雙龍寶星頒發章程，授予對應其職位的三等二級寶星。

弗萊舍歸國以後，主管「柏林機械製造股份公司」的魚雷部門，還為此得到「四等普魯士王冠勳章」。公元1919年1月15日，弗萊舍逝世於柏林，享年68歲。

這些照片和檔案充分展現弗萊舍在中國和德國的事業和家庭生活，包含他身穿清軍制服和配戴雙龍寶星的戎裝照，跟家人分別在上海和柏林兩地拍攝的家庭照，以及戰死於第一次世界大戰的兒子跟第二任妻子合葬墓地剪影。

See more:

更多相關訊息請參考:

https://qingarchives.npm.edu.tw/index.php?act=Display/image/217994591Pp==0#0eJ

陳悅,《龍星初暉： 清代寶星勳章圖史》(南京市 : 江蘇鳳凰文藝出版社，2019)

向中銀,〈晚清外聘人才的獎賞制度〉,《北京市:近代史研究》,(1996),頁157-164