Photographs by Kapitän zur See Karl Boy-Ed, 1913 These photographs were taken by Kapitän zur See Karl Boy-Ed, Imperial German Navy, during the 1913 Autumn manoeuvers at the mouth of the Weser River. http://www.gwpda.org/naval/photokbe.htm Karl Boy-Ed (1872-1930) served as Germany's naval attaché to the U.S. until his eventual expulsion as a saboteur shortly before the U.S. entered the war in 1917. Boy-Ed, who entered the Germany Navy at a young age of German parentage (his father was a merchant in Lubeck), and was something of a protégé of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, worked with the Naval Secretary in seeking to boost the overall size of the Navy, a strategy that played dividends with the ambitious (and frustrated) Kaiser Wilhelm II. As a Captain Boy-Ed was despatched to the U.S. in 1911 as his country's naval attaché. With war underway in Europe from August 1914 Boy-Ed worked closely with Franz von Papen in establishing a spy ring and a group of saboteurs, each determined to hinder U.S. economic aid to the Entente Powers. Von Papen was effectively expelled from the U.S. in 1915 although Boy-Ed remained. Nevertheless his activities grew both in scale and in notoriety, to the point where the peaceable U.S. President Woodrow Wilson felt obliged to instruct Germany to recall Boy-Ed early in 1917. The U.S. shortly afterwards entered the war on the side of the Allies. Back in Germany Boy-Ed continued to serve his country, this time as Director of the Navy's press department. Following the armistice he married an American woman (from Virginia) and settled north of Hamburg. Boy-Ed died following a horse-riding accident on 14 September 1930; he was aged 58. http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/boy-ed.htm Capt. Boy-Ed's Plea to Live Here Refused; Parole of German Offenders to End Soon July 13, 1919, Sunday Section: News Section, Page E1 Captain Karl Boy-Ed, who was Naval Attache of the German Embassy in Washington during the first year and a half of the war, and who in January, 1916, was expelled from the country because of his activities as a German plotter, wants to return to the United States http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B00EEDD123FE432A25750C1A9619C946896D6CF Captain Boy-Ed, Deported German Officer, Weds Miss Mackay-Smith at Hamburg Special to The New York Times. February 11, 1921, Friday Page 1, LANCASTER, Pa., Feb. 10.--Captain Karl Boy-Ed, former Naval Attache of the German Embassy, Washington, deported with Count von Bernstorff, for pro-enemy activities in the United States during the war, today married Miss Virginia Miackay-Smith, formerly of Philadelphia and Lancaster. The marriage was solemnized at Hamburg, Germany. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9F03EEDB123CE533A25752C1A9649C946095D6CF
