Kriegsmarine Admiral Posted June 2, 2018 Posted June 2, 2018 (edited) 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 *PLEASE DO CHECK THE PHOTOS BELOW! Many thanks! Edited June 2, 2018 by Kriegsmarine Admiral
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