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Also known as Otto Ernst Lindemann

German naval officer

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  • Die Friedenspflicht im Tarifvertrag
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Type
Group
Origin
Germany
Active from
2014
Active to
2020
heavy metalindustrialindustrial metalmetal

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Total plays
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Key facts

Born
( 1894-03-28 ) 28 March 1894, Altenkirchen , German Empire
Died
27 May 1941 (1941-05-27) (aged 47), North Atlantic
Buried
48°10′N 16°12′W / 48.167°N 16.200°W / 48.167; -16.200
Allegiance
German Empire (1913–18), Weimar Republic (1918–33), Nazi Germany (1933–41)
Branch
Imperial German Navy , Reichsmarine , Kriegsmarine
Service years
1913–41
Rank
Kapitän zur See ( Captain )
Unit
SMS Hertha , SMS Lothringen , SMS Bayern , SMS Hannover , SMS Elsass , SMS Schleswig-Holstein , SMS Hessen , Heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer
Commands
1st Artillery Company, Friedrichsort , Ship Construction Dept, OKM , Naval Gunnery School, Bismarck
Conflicts
World War I Operation Albion Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow Spanish Civil War World War II Atlantic War Operation Rheinübung Battle of the Denmark Strait Last battle of the battleship Bismarck †
Awards
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (posthumously)
Relations
Ernst Heinrich Lindemann (grandfather), Georg Lindemann (cousin)

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Encyclopedic overview

Otto Ernst Lindemann (28 March 1894 – 27 May 1941) was a German Kapitän zur See (naval captain). He was the only commander of the battleship Bismarck during its eight months of service in World War II.

Lindemann joined the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) in 1913, and after his basic military training, served on a number of warships during World War I as a wireless telegraphy officer. On board SMS Bayern, he participated in Operation Albion in 1917. After World War I, he served in various staff and naval gunnery training positions. One year after the outbreak of World War II, he was appointed commander of the battleship Bismarck, at the time the largest warship in commission anywhere in the world and the pride of the Kriegsmarine (Nazi Germany's navy).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ernst Lindemann” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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