Cika wannan jumla: An sanya jirgin zuwa Rukunin 2 don ɓangaren Norwegian na Operation Weserübung. Ayyukan rukuni ya kasance don safarar Rundunar Sojoji ta 138th ("138. Gebirgsjäger Regiment") na 3rd Mountain Division don kama Trondheim tare da "Admiral Hipper", amma kayan aikinta sun sake lalacewa kafin a ɗora sojojin kuma an maye gurbin ta da "Friedrich Eckoldt". A matsayin wani bangare na bayan-
A lokacin sake fasalin Narvik na sojojin "Kriegsmarine", "Hermann Schoemann" an sanya shi zuwa 6th Destroyer Flotilla ("6. Zerstörer Flotille"). A watan Yuni, an ba da umarnin jirgin ruwa don rakiyar jiragen ruwa da jiragen ruwa, da kuma jirgin ruwa mai nauyi a cikin Operation Juno, wani shirin da aka shirya a kan Harstad, Norway, don rage matsa lamba a kan sojojin Jamus a Narvik. Jirgin ruwan ya tashi a ranar 8 ga Yuni kuma ya nutsar da jigilar sojoji, jirgin mai mai da jirgin ruwa mai ninkaya a hanya. Kwamandan Jamus, Admiral Wilhelm Marschall, sai ya umarci "Admiral Hipper" da dukan masu hallaka hudu zuwa Trondheim saboda mummunan yanayi, inda suka isa ranar 9 ga Yuni. Jirgin yakin biyu ya ci gaba da fitarwa kuma ya nutse mai dauke da jirgin sama da masu hallaka biyu, kodayake "Scharnhorst" ya lalace sosai ta hanyar torpedo daga mai hallaka a cikin yakin. Jirgin yaƙi ya dawo gida ta hanyar masu hallaka "Steinbrinck", "Z10 Hans Lody" da "Hermann Schoemann" don gyarawa. A ranar 25 ga Yuni, "Hermann Schoemann" ya fara yin gyare-gyare mai tsawo wanda ya ci gaba har zuwa ranar 15 ga Fabrairun 1941, ko da yake na'urorinsa sun ci gaba da zama matsala.