Kaas (Danish naval officers)

Danish naval officers surnamed Kaas

• Ahasverus Kaas (1693 - 1744) Captain
• Bernhard Kaas (1764 - 1795) Senior Lieutenant. son of rear admiral Wolfgang K.(see below)
• Christian Ulrich Kaas (1731 - 1803) Commodore. son of Ahasverus (see above).
• Frantz Kaas (1658 - 1690) Junior Lieutenant (no naval forebears or issue)
• Frederik Kaas (1730 - 1759) Captain. died in battle with an English warship in East Indies 10 September 1759. Presumably Battle of Pondicherry son of admiral Ulrich K. (see below)
• Frederik Christian Kaas (1725–1803) Admiral. son of Hans K. (see below)
• Frederik Christian Kaas (1727–1804) Admiral. son of admiral Ulrik K (see below)
• Georg Conrad Kaas (1762 - 1808) Captain. died November 1808 when his ship ran aground on Kragerø. son of Frederik Christian K. (1725) (i.e. the topmost F C K) .
• Hans Kaas (1683 - 1737) Commodore
• Hans Michael Kaas (1760 - 1799) Captain. son of Frederik Christian K. (1725) (i.e. the topmost F C K) . See HDMS Hvide Ørn (1798) and HDMS Nidelven
• Jørgen Grubbe Kaas (1716 - 1740) Senior Lieutenant. son of Ulrich K.
• Malta Kaas (1721 - 1774) Senior Lieutenant. son of Ulrik K., brother to Jørgen Grubbe K.
• Ulrich Kaas (1677 - 1746) Admiral. Also
• Ulrik Christian Kaas (1729 - 1808) Admiral. son of Ulrich K. Captain of HDMS Mars at Algiers in 1770 Also
• Ventsel Rotkirk Kaas (1721 - 1743) Junior Lieutenant son of Ahasverus K., brother to Wolfgang
• Wolfgang Kaas (1724 - 1778) Rear Admiral. son of Ahasverus K., brother to Ventsel Rotkirk K.
• Wolgang Kaas (1776 - 1840) Commodore. son of Rear Admiral Wolfgang K.

References

Citation

• Gravsted website
• Projekt Runeberg - Danish Biographical Lexicon - Vol IX page 71
• Salmonsen konversationsleksikon 2 Ed. Vol XIII p 339
• T. A. Topsøe-Jensen og Emil Marquard (1935) “Officerer i den dansk-norske Søetat 1660-1814 og den danske Søetat 1814-1932“. Two volumes. Download here.