Lots of Kriegsmarine Admirals to ID on a group photo
Article about: This is a thread I started a while ago on the Axis history forum, but had no luck there. My goal is to identify the Admirals on these photos. This is the ceremony of Erich Raeder being promo
Lots of Kriegsmarine Admirals to ID on a group photo
This is a thread I started a while ago on the Axis history forum, but had no luck there.
My goal is to identify the Admirals on these photos.
This is the ceremony of Erich Raeder being promoted to Großadmiral on board the Scharnhorst in Wilhelmshaven on 1 April 1939. The date is important to narrow down the search. Also the "Tirpitz" was launched the same day.
I hope you can help. Open the photos in a new tab to zoom them in a bit. They are possibly placed in seniority order. Feel free to correct any mistakes and comment below if you have any ideas.
1 Admiral Conrad Albrecht (promoted the same day to Generaladmiral)
2 ???
3 Hafenbaudirektor Karl Tiburtius
4 ???
5 ???
6 Vizeadmiral Friedrich Götting
7 ??? (face barely visible)
8 ???
9 Possibly Marineoberbaudirektor Prof.Dipl.Ing. Hermann Burkhardt ??? (he is ID'd on a different photo from the same date, the launching of the Tirpitz)
10 Vizeadmiral Hans-Herbert Stobwasser ??? (I don't think he is Stobwasser)
a ??? (again he is too short so the face isn't visible)
b Vizeadmiral Günther Guse
c ???
d Vizeadmiral Hermann von Fischel
e ???
f Vizeadmiral (Ing.) Hans Fechter
g Vizeadmiral Hermann Densch
h ???
i Vizeadmiral Wilhelm Marschall
j Charakter als Vizeadmiral Ernst Wolf
k Charakter als Vizeadmiral Kurt Aßmann
Admiral between k and l ??? (barely visible)
l Konteradmiral Heinrich Ancker ??? (I am not sure about this one either)
m Konteradmiral Witold Rother
n Konteradmiral Raul Mewis
o Konteradmiral Otto von Schrader ??? (pretty sure it isn't von Schrader)
p Konteradmiral Werner Grassmann
q Konteradmiral Günther Lütjens
r Konteradmiral Otto Schniewind
s Konteradmiral Conrad Patzig
t Konteradmiral Otto Hormel ??? (again, not sure about this one)
u Vizeadmiral Willy von Nordeck (he can be seen in detail on the last photo of this post)
To help ID the rest of the Admirals I compiled a list of all the Admirals that held either the Konteradmiral, Vizeadmiral, Admiral or Generaladmiral rank (or Charakter of those ranks) as of 01 April 1939 (i.e. the date these photos were taken) and were active at that time in the Kriegsmarine. I also wrote in the brackets the ones already identified on the photo:
Alfred Saalwächter, Admiral
Conrad Albrecht (ID number "1"), Admiral
Hermann Boehm, Admiral
Karl Witzell, Admiral
Otto Schniewind (ID "r"), Konteradmiral
Otto Schultze (he was placed at the disposal of the Kriegsmarine, not in active service), Admiral
Rolf Carls, Admiral
Walter Warzecha, Konteradmiral
Wilhelm Marschall (ID "i"), Vizeadmiral
Conrad Patzig (ID "s"), Konteradmiral
Erich Zieger, Konteradmiral (Ing.)
Eugen Lindau, Vizeadmiral
Günther Guse (ID "b"), Vizeadmiral
Günther Lütjens (ID "q"), Konteradmiral
Hans Fechter (ID "f"), Vizeadmiral (Ing.)
Hermann Densch (ID "g"), Vizeadmiral
Hermann Mootz, Konteradmiral
Hermann von Fischel (ID "d"), Vizeadmiral
Hubert Schmundt, Konteradmiral
Karlgeorg Schuster, Vizeadmiral
Max Bastian, Admiral
Otto Hormel (ID "t", I am not sure about this one being Hormel, any ideas?), Konteradmiral
Otto von Schrader (ID "o", I am not sure about this one being von Schrader, any ideas?), Konteradmiral
Paul Fanger, Konteradmiral
Raul Mewis (ID "n"), Konteradmiral
Werner Fuchs, Konteradmiral
Wilhelm Canaris, Vizeadmiral
Willy von Nordeck (ID "u", Admiral right of "t"), Vizeadmiral
Adalbert Schüssler, Charakter als Konteradmiral
Ernst Wolf (ID "j"), Charakter als Vizeadmiral
Friedrich Götting (ID "6"), Vizeadmiral
Georg Reimer, Charakter als Konteradmiral
Hans Stohwasser, Charakter als Konteradmiral
Hans-Herbert Stobwasser (ID "10", I am not sure about this one being Stobwasser, any ideas?), Vizeadmiral
Heinrich Ancker (ID "l", I am not sure about this one being Ancker, any ideas?), Konteradmiral
Karl Thäter, Konteradmiral Ing.
Kurt Aßmann (ID "k"), Charakter als Vizeadmiral
Robert Witthoeft-Emden, Vizeadmiral
Siegfried Maßmann, Charakter als Vizeadmiral
Thilo von Seebach, Konteradmiral
Walter Matthiae, Charakter als Konteradmiral
Werner Bettenhäuser, Konteradmiral Ing.
Werner Grassmann (ID "p"), Konteradmiral
Witold Rother (ID "m"), Konteradmiral
Erich Mahrholz, Charakter als Konteradmiral
Hans-Hermann Graf von Schweinitz und Krain Freiherr von Kauder, Charakter als Konteradmiral
Hasso von Bredow, Charakter als Konteradmiral
Kurt Ramien, Konteradmiral
Peter Christian Donner, Charakter als Konteradmiral
Im not sure? but I think these are part of the series of photos taken when the Bismarck was commissioned? I have 3 of these myself-not these images though.
Please do share the 3 images you have. But the photos I posted are 100% from the day the Tirpitz was launched (01 April 1939). The Bismarck was launched in Hamburg on 14 February 1939.
I think I may have them on a photo cd? im not sure? If so? ill try getting them here. I just cant say when that will be? If not in a decent amount of time? please send me a reminder.
You said I should remind you to post the photos you have. So here is the reminder
Thank you. I believe they are saved to my computer now, ill have a look see in awhile. I don't know if I can get them from there to here? but I will try. If I fail? ill let you know and I can send them by email.
I got these from seller rick white about 11 years ago and he sometimes does not always give the correct info. Ive scored some good pics from him for peanuts because he didn't know the significance of certain images.
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