page_title: Karl Artelt
section_title: East-Asia
hierarchical_section_title: Karl Artelt / East-Asia
caption_attribution_description: English: Karl Artelt on board the „Gneisenau“ 1912 (lower row second from right and detail enlargement); the board between the sailors reads: Pumpenmeister Personal SMS „Gneisenau“, Amoij, China 1912 (master pump personnnel SMS „Gneisenau“, Amoij, China 1912) Deutsch: Karl Artelt auf der „SMS Gneisenau“ 1912 (unten zweiter von rechts und Ausschnittvergrößerung); Aufschrift auf der Tafel: Pumpenmeister Personal SMS „Gneisenau“, Amoij, China 1912
context_page_description: Karl Artelt was a German revolutionary and a leader of the sailors' revolt in Kiel.
context_section_description: In 1908 he was hired by the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft – HAPAG, an international shipping line and spent some years amongst others as a stoker; these vessels were used to move copra in the South Seas. Two years later he was conscripted into the German navy, serving as a stoker and later as a pump specialist on board the armoured cruiser Gneisenau of the German East-Asia fleet in Qingdao (Tsingtau). He became a contemporary witness of the Bourgeois revolution in China led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen. In September 1913 he returned to Magdeburg as a reservist and resumed his job at the Wolf factory.
caption: Karl Artelt on board the "Gneisenau" 1912 (lower row, second from right and detail enlargement); the board between the sailors reads: Pumpenmeister Personal SMS "Gneisenau", Amoij, China 1912 (master pump personnel SMS "Gneisenau", Amoij, China 1912)
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