Frantz Hohlenberg

Frantz Christopher Henrik Hohlenberg[1][2] (17 February 1764 – 9 January 1804) was a Danish naval officer who specialised in ship design and had little seagoing experience.

His younger brother Johannes Søbøtker Hohlenberg (1795–1833) served as governor of Serampore in Danish India from 1828 until his death.

In 1795 he became a lecturer in shipbuilding at the Naval Cadet Academy and at the same time a fully fledged member of the Construction Commission.

[2] A report which disapproved of his handling of the building of the frigate Rota upset him greatly[2] and at the age of 38, in 1803, Hohlenberg resigned his post and travelled to the Danish West Indies to become harbourmaster and chief pilot at Christiansted on St Croix.

[1] The position of fabrikmester at the Danish Naval Dockyards remained unfilled until, in 1810, Jens Jøgen Pihl was appointed.

[2][6] Of the thirteen Hohlenberg frigates built prior to 1807, nine were captured by the British Royal Navy at the Battle of Copenhagen (1807).

Frantz Hohlenberg, sketch by Johan Tobias Sergel .