Harald Netzbandt [SEP] date of birth
Harald Netzbandt
Harald Netzbandt (3 August 1892 in Berlin – died 27 May 1941 in the North Atlantic) was an officer of the Imperial German Navy, the Reichsmarine and later the Kriegsmarine.
Promoted to "Kapitän zur See" from 1 October 1937 he was in command of the fleet flagship, the battleship Gneisenau, from 26 November 1939 to 1 August 1940. Subsequently, he was appointed chief of staff in the fleet command and was killed on 27 May 1941, aboard the new battleship Bismarck alongside Fleet Admiral Günther
number of live rounds. She was back in Germany when war began in September 1939. On the 4th, the day after the British declaration of war, "Gneisenau" was attacked by fourteen Wellington bombers, though they made no hits. In November, "KzS" Förste was replaced by "KzS" Harald Netzbandt. The ship's first combat operation, under the command of Admiral Wilhelm Marschall, began on 21 November 1939; the ship, in company with her sister , the light cruiser , and nine destroyers,