Bismarck
Crew
| Officers' List | |
| Fleet Staff | |
| Flottenchef (Chief of Fleet) | Admiral Günther Lütjens |
| Chef des Stabes (Chief of Staff) | Kapitän zur See Harald Netzbandt |
| I. Admiralstabsoffizier (First Admiral Staff Officer) | Fregattenkapitän Paul Ascher |
| II. Admiralstabsoffizier (Second Admiral Staff Officer) | Fregattenkapitän Emil Melms |
| Flotteningenieur (Fleet Engineer) | Fregattenkapitän (Ing.) Karl Thannemann |
| IV. Admiralstabsoffizier (Fourth Admiral Staff Officer) | Korvettenkapitän Hans Nitzschke |
| Flottenarzt (Physician of the Fleet) | Dr. Hans-Releff Riege |
| Flottenrichter (Judge Advocate of the Fleet) | Oberkriegsgerichtsrat (Dr.) Eduard Langer |
| Luftwaffenverbindungsoffizier (Air Force Liaison Off.) | Major Fritz Grohe |
| Ships Command | |
| Kommandant (Commander) | Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann |
| I. Offizier (Executive Officer) | Fregattenkapitän Hans Oels |
| Divisional Officers and Section Leaders | |
| Division I (Seamens Division) | Kapitänleutnant Hermann Schaaf |
| Division II (Seamens Division) | Kapitänleutnant Helmut Tils (Second Navigation Officer) |
| Oberleutnant zur See Friedrich Heuser (Section Leader) | |
| Division III (Seamens Division) | Kapitänleutnant Karl Knappe (Artillery Officer, Main Turret C) |
| Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Gerd Lippold (Gunnery Officer) | |
| Division IV (Seamens Division) | Oberleutnant zur See Hans Kühn (Aircraft Officer) |
| Division V (Light Anti-Aircraft weapons) | Oberleutnant zur See Jürgen Brandes (Light A.A. Control Officer) |
| Division VI (Heavy Anti-Aircraft weapons) | Kapitänleutnant Rudolf Troll (Heavy A.A. Control Off./First Watch Off.) |
| Oberleutnant zur See Siegfried Dölker (Senior Section Leader) | |
| Leutnant zur See Andreas Andresen (Junior Section Leader) | |
| Division VII (Daymen's Division) (Funktionäre) | Kapitänleutnant Karl Mihatsch (Divisions officer) |
| Leutnant zur See Heinz Aengeneyndt (Aft Plotting Room) | |
| Leutnant zur See Günter Brückner (Junior Section Leader) | |
| Division VIII (Gunnery Artificers) | Oberleutnant Gerhard Hins (Technical Officer) |
| Division IX (Navigational Parties) | Kapitänleutnant Klaus Krüger (Artillery Calculation) |
| Division X (Technical Division) | Kapitänleutnant (Ing.) Albert Hasselmeyer (Machinery Officer) |
| Division XI (Technical Division) | Kapitänleutnant (Ing.) Gerhard Junack (Turbine Officer) |
| Division XII (Technical Division) | Kapitänleutnant (Ing.) Werner Schock (Damage Control Officer) |
| Leutnant zur See (Ing.) Werner Leibnitz | |
| Artillery Officers | |
| I. Artillery Officer (Main Armament) | Korvettenkapitän Adalbert Schneider |
| II. Artillery Officer (Secondary Armament) | Fregattenkapitän Helmut Albrecht |
| IV. Artillery Officer (Aft Fire Direction Tower) | Kapitänleutnant (Ing.) Burkard Freiherr von Müllenheim-Rechberg |
| A.A. Artillery Officer (In Charge of all A.A. Weapons) | Kapitänleutnant Karl Gellert |
| Artillery Officer (Forward Close Range Weapons) | Oberleutnant zur See Georg Soltau |
| Artillery Officer (Aft Long Range Weapons) | Leutnant zur See Hans-Joachim Ritter |
| I. Befehlsübermittlungs officer (Fore Plotting Room) | Oberleutnant zur See Friedrich Cardinal |
| Engineer Officers | |
| Chief Engineer | Korvettenkapitän (Dipl. Ing.) Walter Lehmann |
| Electrical Engineer | Korvettenkapitän (Ing.) Wilhelm Freytag |
| I. Damage Control Officer | Kapitänleutnant (Ing.) Emil Jahreis |
| II. Damage Control Officer | Oberleutnant (Ing.) Karl Ludwig Richter |
| Leutnant (Ing.) d. Res. Hans Joachim Tormann | |
| Leutnant (Ing.) d. Res. Hermann Griese | |
| Oberleutnant (Ing.) Fritz Fürle | |
| Electrical Workshop | Fähnrich Hans-Georg Stiegler |
| Administrative Officers and Paymasters | |
| Senior Accountant Officer and Paymaster Command. | Korvettenkapitän Rudolf Hartkopf |
| Junior Accountant Officer/Paymaster Lieutenant | Oberleutnant Günter Tischendorf |
| Medical Officers | |
| Senior Medical Officer/Surgeon Commander | Marineoberstabsartzt Dr. Hans Günther Busch |
| Surgeon Lieutenant Commander | Marinestabsarzt Dr. Joachim Krüger |
| Surgeon Lieutenant Commander | Marinestabsarzt, Oberleutnant zur, See Dr. Arvid Thiele |
| Meteorological Officers | |
| Senior Meteorological Officer | Korvettenkapitän Dr. Heinz Externbrink |
| Junior Meteorological Officer/Nautical Assistant | Leutnant zur See Lothar Balzer |
| Other Officers (in alphabetical order) | |
| Stabsoberbootsmann Friedrich Adams | |
| Fähnrich Alwin Baumann | |
| Oberleutnant Fritz Behrens | |
| Fähnrich Hermann Bitterlich | |
| Fähnrich Lothar Böhlcke | |
| Fähnrich zur See Ernst Böhmer | |
| Fähnrich Cornel Dorer | |
| Fähnrich Alfred Doß | |
| Fähnrich zur See (Ing.) Friedrich-Wilhelm Duesing | |
| Fähnrich zur See Friedrich-Wilhelm Dusch | |
| Fähnrich Johann Heinrich Eggers | |
| Sonderführer, Leutnant zur See Franz Gerhard | |
| Leutnant zur See Karl Eberhard Grasse | |
| Oberleutnant zur See Johannes Hagl | |
| War Reporter, Naval Propaganda Department North | Sonderführer, Leutnant Wilhelm Mathias Hanf |
| Oberleutnant zur See Alfred Hanschel | |
| Fähnrich Klaus Hindermann | |
| Marineassistenzarzt d. Res. Dr. Rolf Hinrichsen | |
| Fähnrich Horst Iserlohe | |
| Fähnrich zur See Jörn Jaap | |
| Fähnrich Heinz Kloessel | |
| Oberleutnant Bruno Köhler | |
| Marineoberinspekteur Heinrich Koop | |
| Oberleutnant d. Res. Dr. Franz Krautwig | |
| Oberleutnant Ernst Kröger | |
| Leutnant Ernst Kruse | |
| Oberleutnant Günther Mehwald | |
| Leutnant MN. Res. Heinz Meier | |
| Fähnrich zur See Georg Meyer | |
| Navigation Officer | Korvettenkapitän Wolf Neuendorff |
| Fähnrich zur See Helmut Nicolaus | |
| Sonderführer, Oberleutnant zur See Ernst Nowak | |
| Fähnrich Johannes Osmanski | |
| Fähnrich Gerhard Pietsch | |
| Sonderführer, Leutnant zur See Friedrich Poser | |
| Intelligence Officer | Korvettenkapitän Kurt-Werner Reichard |
| Signaloffizier/Adjutant Lindemanns | Leutnant zur See Wolfgang Reiner |
| Duty Officer | Korvettenkapitän Max Rollmann |
| Fähnrich Gerhard Runowsky | |
| Leutnant Gustav Saak | |
| Marinebaurat Heinrich Schlüter | |
| Fähnrich zur See (Ing.) Kurt Seyler | |
| Fähnrich Heinz Starfinger | |
| Fähnrich zur See Helmut Steingötter | |
| Fähnrich Friedrich Karl Stuermer | |
| Fähnrich zur See Kurt Tönnissen | |
| Sonderführer, Leutnant zur See Otto Trane | |
| Fähnrich Hans Voerde | |
| Fähnrich Joachim Wagener | |
| Music Corps | Musikmeister August Wegener |
| Fähnrich Hans Jürgen Wessel | |
| Fähnrich zur See Walter Wipper | |
| Fähnrich Herbert Wussow | |
| Naval Propaganda Department North | Sonderführer, Leutnant Armin Karl Zinnecker |
| Additional Information | |
| *Only four officers and ensigns survived the sinking of the Bismarck (marked in red on the list above) | |
| *Further information about ranks, please visit this page: Table of Equivalent Ranks | |
© John Asmussen, 2000 - 2014. All rights reserved.