- Source: Theodor Krancke
Theodor Krancke (30 March 1893 – 18 June 1973) was a naval commander and admiral of Germany during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.
Under the command of Krancke, during the five-month-long raiding cruise, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer sank 13 merchant ships, one armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay, and captured three merchant ships representing 115,195 gross register tons (GRT) of Allied and neutral shipping.
During the Allied Invasion of Normandy Krancke, as Commander-in-Chief of Navy Group Command West headquartered in Paris, controlled all German naval vessels in France, as well as the various land-based naval units and the naval coastal artillery and anti-aircraft batteries along the French Atlantic coast.
Dates of Rank
Fähnrich zur See – 12 April 1913
Leutnant zur See – 22 March 1915
Oberleutnant zur See – 25 December 1917
Kapitänleutnant – 1 September 1922
Korvettenkapitän – 1 October 1930
Fregattenkapitän – 1 November 1935
Kapitän zur See – 1 April 1937
Konteradmiral – 1 April 1941
Vizeadmiral – 1 April 1942
Admiral – 1 March 1943
Awards
Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (May 1915) & 1st Class (27 September 1919)
Sudetenland Medal 1939
High Seas Fleet Badge 1941
Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (29 October 1939) & 1st Class (20 April 1940)
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
Knight's Cross on 21 February 1941 as Kapitän zur See and commander of heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer
614th Oak Leaves on 18 October 1944 as Admiral and commander in chief of Marinegruppenkommando West (Navy Group Command West)
References
= Citations
== Bibliography
=Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Theodor Krancke
- German cruiser Admiral Scheer
- Operation Herbstreise
- Normandy landings
- Island Farm
- Wilhelm Marschall
- Battle of the Atlantic
- Operation Astonia
- Organization of the Kriegsmarine
- Japanese submarine I-8
