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 Appointed Jørgen Biørnsen 1 May 1651 1656 20 July 1658 1 July 1684 Cornelius de Witt 7 October 1684
1700 Portrait Name Appointed 5 March 1712 Christian Carl Gabel 15 May 1715 Peter Wessel Tordenskiold 17 August 1719 10 November 1727 Christian Koningh 26 September 1736 Rasmus Krag 26 September 1736 Hans Jacob Rostgaard 28 October 1746 4 September 1747 4 September 1747 4 September 1747 11 October 1752 Olfert Fasvier Fischer 7 September 1758 Christian Carl von Basballe 29 May 1765 Jørgen Torbiørnsen 22 July 1769 Friderich Zimmer 30 September 1772 Johan Cornelius Krieger 31 July 1790 24 September 1790 Andreas Lous 23 December 1796 22 December 1797
1800 Portrait Name Appointed 6 April 1804 28 January 1817 Jens Schou Fabricius 23 August 1821 Olfert Fischer 4 January 1825 Adolph Tobias Herbst 4 January 1825 16 April 1833 20 July 1834 1 August 1834 Johan Johnsen 25 December 1835 Hans Stephensen 29 March 1848 19 October 1848 Andreas Schifter 3 August 1851 2 April 1852 Conrad Emil Mourier 1 April 1853 Johan Anton Meyer 28 February 1860 30 March 1863 Steen Andersen Bille 18 January 1864 Edouard Suenson 5 August 1880 5 August 1880 21 February 1886 Niels Frederik Ravn 8 July 1891 Hans Henrik Koch 19 July 1897 Fritz Peter Adolph Uldall 2 January 1899
1900 Portrait Name Appointed Carl Frederik Wandel 9 March 1905 Otto Joachim Moltke Kofoed-Hansen 1 October 1911 Anton Ferdinand Mazanti Evers 27 April 1918 Georg Hugh Robert Zachariae 5 October 1918 Henri Konow 1 April 1923 Georg Carl Amdrup 7 February 1927 Henri L. E. Wenck 1 December 1931 Hjalmar Rechnitzer 1 April 1932 A. H. Vedel 1 August 1941 Hans Alfred Nyholm 1 June 1958 Svend Erik Pontoppidan 1 June 1961 Sven Støckel Thostrup 1 December 1965
See also Admiral (Denmark) List of Danish full admirals
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