Hugo Meurer (28 May 1869 – 4 January 1960) was a vice-admiral of the Kaiserliche Marine (German Imperial Navy). Meurer was the German naval officer who handled the negotiations of the internment of the German fleet in November 1918 at the end of the First World War.
From 21 February to 2 May 1918, as commander of the special unit (Sonderverband) of the Baltic Sea, he led the naval expedition for the German intervention in the ongoing civil war in Finland.[13] In November 1918 Meurer negotiated as representative of Admiral Franz von Hipper with Admiral David Beatty the details of the surrender of the German fleet.[14]
Meurer was also the naval station commander of the Baltic, based in Kiel. He was dismissed on 8 January 1920, after derogatory remarks against the government, but still received the character (an unpaid honorary title) of vice-admiral.[15]
He died in 1960 in Kiel, where he was buried at the Nordfriedhof in Kiel [de].
^www.underwater-archaeology.org.uk: Scapa Flow Archived 2010-07-11 at the Wayback Machine; "Semaphore"
^Gerhard Granier: Magnus von Levetzow: Seeoffizier, Monarchist und Wegbereiter Hitlers – Lebensweg und ausgewählte Dokumente. Boppard am Rhein 1982 (Schriften des Bundesarchivs Nr. 31), p. 64.
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World War I Document Archive: Commanders of the High Seas Fleet Battle Squadrons 1914-1918
Australian Navy: Semaphore, issue 14, Nov 2008 - "1918, Victory at sea"
Short biography, with photo of Meurer's gravestone (in German)