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Portrait of the Men Involved
Erich Raeder | |
Nationality | German |
Rank | Grand Admiral |
Born | 24 April 1876, Wandsbek, Germany |
Died | 6 November 1960, Kiel, Germany |
Career | |
16 April 1894 | Entered the navy (Crew 94) |
13 May 1895 | Naval Cadet |
25 Oct. 1897 | Second Lieutenant |
9 April 1900 | First Lieutenant |
21 Mar. 1905 | Lieutenant Commander |
15 April.1911 | Corvette Captain |
May - June 1916 | Participation in the battle of the Skaggerak on board Seydlitz |
26 April 1917 | Frigate Captain |
29 Nov. 1919 | Captain |
1 Aug. 1922 | Rear Admiral |
1 April 1925 | Vice-Admiral |
1 Oct. 1928 | Admiral |
1 Oct. 1928 - 31 May 1935 | Chief of naval command |
1 June 1935 - 31 Jan. 1943 | Commander of the Navy (ObdM) |
20 April 1936 | Fleet Admiral |
1 April 1939 | Grand Admiral Commands: Stosch, Gneisenau, Mars, Blücher, Sachsen, Baden, Deutschland, Aegir, Grille, Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse, Kaiser Friedrich III, Frithjof, York, Hildebrand, Hohenzollern, Moltke, Seydlitz, Cöln, Hamburg, Elsass and Schleswig-Holstein |
1 Feb. 1943 - 8 May 1943 | Inspector Admiral of the Navy |
1945 - 1946 | International Military Tribunal in Nürnberg |
1946 - 1955 | Sentence (war criminal) and confinement at Spandau |
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