Otto von Schrader

Otto von Schrader
Otto von Schrader (5th from left)
Born	(1888-03-18)18 March 1888
Died	19 July 1945(1945-07-19) (aged 57) Bergen, Norway
Allegiance	German Empire (to 1919) Weimar Republic (to 1933) Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Kaiserliche Marine Reichsmarine Kriegsmarine
Years of service	1907–45
Rank	Admiral
Unit	SMS Zähringen SMS Rheinland SMS Loreley SMS Thetis SMS Nymphe SMS Hessen
Commands held	SM UB-35 SM UC-31 SM UB-64 SM U-53 light cruiser Königsberg
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Otto von Schrader (18 March 1888 – 19 July 1945) was an Admiral in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. As a U boat commander during World War I he was credited with the sinking of 57 ships for a total of 54,655 gross register tons (GRT), a further 6 ships damaged for a total of 52,333 GRT, including SS Justicia, and one ship taken as prize for a total of 336 GRT. Schrader was taken prisoner of war in Norway at the end of World war II. He committed suicide in Norwegian captivity on 19 July 1945.

Awards

Iron Cross (1914) 1st Class (1 August 1916)^[1]
Knight's Cross of the House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords (5 March 1922)^[1]
Hanseatic Cross of Hamburg (5 March 1922)^[1]
U-boat War Badge (20 November 1926)^[1]
Gallipoli Star (Ottoman War Medal - Turkish: Harp Madalyası) (20 November 1926)^[1]
Knight's Cross with Crown of the Bulgarian Order of Military Merit (20 November 1926)^[1]
Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 1st Class (5 May 1940)^[1]
German Cross in Gold on 20 November 1941 as Vizeadmiral and Admiral of the Norwegian West Coast^[2]
Minesweeper War Badge (1941)^[1]
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 19 August 1943 as Admiral as commanding admiral of the Norwegian West Coast^[3]

References

Citations

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Dörr 1996, p. 236.
↑ Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 423.
↑ Scherzer 2007, p. 682.

Bibliography

Michael Böcker: "Admiral Otto von Schrader (1888-1945). Marineoffizier in der Zeit der Weltkriege." Dissertation in Form einer Biografie, Wuppertal April 2015, 352.S ISBN 978-3-00-048402-5
Dörr, Manfred (1996) (in German). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Überwasserstreitkräfte der Kriegsmarine—Band 2:L–Z. Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag. ISBN 3-7648-2497-2.
Patzwall, Klaus D.; Scherzer, Veit (2001). Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 – 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II [The German Cross 1941 – 1945 History and Recipients Volume 2] (in German). Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall. ISBN 978-3-931533-45-8.
Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives [The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives] (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Militaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2. .

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients of the Kriegsmarine High Command

Commander-in-Chief	Erich Raeder Karl Dönitz¹ (Oak Leaves)

Chief of Staff of the Naval Operations	Otto Schniewind Kurt Fricke

Marinegruppenbefehlshaber Ost	Rolf Carls

Marinegruppenbefehlshaber West	Alfred Saalwächter Theodor Krancke² (Oak Leaves)

Commander of the security of the North Sea	Kurt Böhmer Eberhard Wolfram Ernst Lucht

Commander of the security of the Baltic Sea	Hans Stohwasser

Commanding Admiral Aegean Sea	Werner Lange

Commanding Admiral Ostland	Theodor Burchardi³ (Oak Leaves)

Commanding Admiral Norwegian West Coast	Otto von Schrader

Commanding Admiral Eastern Baltic Sea	Theodor Burchardi³ (Oak Leaves)

Commanding Admiral Black Sea	Gustav Kieseritzky Helmuth Brinkmann

Commander-in-chief of the German Naval Commando in Italy	Wilhelm Meendsen-Bohlken

Commander-in-Chief of the battleships	Otto Ciliax

Commander-in-Chief of the reconnaissance forces	Günther Lütjens Hubert Schmundt

Leader of the E-boats	Rudolf Petersen⁴ (Oak Leaves)

Leader of the mine sweepers	Friedrich Ruge

Leader of the torpedo boats	Hans Bütow

Befehlshaber der U-Boote	Karl Dönitz¹ (Oak Leaves)

Leader of the destroyers	Friedrich Bonte

Leader of the Kampfgruppe Oslo	Oskar Kummetz

Commander-in-Chief of the Kampfgruppe Thiele	August Thiele⁵ (Oak Leaves)

¹ Knight's Cross as Befehlshaber der U-Boote ² Knight's Cross as commander of heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer ³ Knight's Cross as Commanding Admiral Ostland, Oak Leaves as Commanding Admiral Eastern Baltic Sea. ⁴ Knight's Cross as chief of the 2. Schnellbootflottille. ⁵ Knight's Cross as commander of heavy cruiser Lützow

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