In
Service: 1 April 1933 to 4 May 1945
Ordered: Builder: Deutsche
Werke AG, Kiel
Construction No: 219
Laid down: 5 February
1929
Launched: 19 May 1931
Commissioned: 1 April 1933
Type: Pocket Battleship
Class: Deutschland
Displacement:
10,600 tons standard. 14,290 tons full load
Length: 186 m
Beam:
20.69 m
Draft: 7.25 m
Propulsion: 8 × MAN diesels
engines producing up to 48,390 shp
Propellers: 2 × screws
Speed: 28 knots
Range: 10,00 nautical miles at 20 knots
Crew: 1,150 men and officers
Armament: 6 × 28 cm L/52
SK C/28
carried 630 to 720 rounds
8 × 15 cm L/55 SK C/28
carried
800 to 1200 rounds
3 × 8.8 cm L/45 SK upto 1935
6 × 8.8 cm
L/75 SK C/25 after 1935
carried 3000 rounds
6 × 10.5 cm L/65 SK
C/33 after 1940
carried 2400 to 3000 rounds
4 × 3.7 cm L/83 SK C/30
carried 8000 to 24,000 rounds
10 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30
carried 20,000
rounds
6 × 4 cm L/56 Flak 28 after 1945
10 × 3.7 cm L/83
SK C/30
28 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30 planned
8 × 53.3 cm torpedo
tubes.
Armour Turret 160 mm, Belt 80 mm, Deck 40 mm
Aircraft:
2 ×
Arado
Ar 196 seaplanes
Electronics: Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants: Lützow Admiral
Graf Spee Admiral Scheer
Other: Pocket battleships
Articles: We
spent five days in the DeutschlandI
commanded the captured City of Flint Deutschland later renamed Lützow, was the lead ship of her class
that served in the German Navy before and throughout World War II. The ship was
classified as a Panzerschiff by Germany. The British originally nicknamed the
three ships of this class pocket battleships, but reclassified them as a heavy
cruisers in February 1940.
1 April 1933 The Deutschland is commissioned.
23 October 1939 The Deutschland seized the American City of Flint,
and put abroad a price crew to sail her back to Germany.
15 November
1939 The Deutschland is renamed Lützow.
7 April 1940
The Lützow joins operation Weserübung.
9 April 1940
The battle of the Droebak Narrows, Lützow takes three hits. The heavy
cruiser Blücher is sunk, Lützow takes command of the 5th Squadron.
11 April 1940 The British submarine Spearfish manager's to get
a torpedo hit and she has to be towed back to Kiel.
12 June 1941
The Lützow is hit again by a torpedo this time by a British torpedo
bomber.
31 December 1942 The battle of the Barents Sea ships
that took part Lützow, Admiral Hipper, and the destroyers Theodor Riedel,
Richard Beitzen, Friedrich Eckoldt, Z24, Z30 and Z31 they come across convoy JW-
51B and opens fire on HMS Bramble and HMS Achates sinking both, the cruisers HMS
Sheffield and HMS Jamaica arrive and Admiral Hipper retreats after taking several
hits.
16 April 1945 The Lützow is wrecked at Swinemünde
she was about two metres above water from this point on she served as a static
battery.
4 May 1945 The Lützow was scuttled.
1948 to 1949 The Lützow was raised by the russians and taken
to the Leningrad later they broke her up.
Hermann
von Fischel
Takes command on 1 April 1933
Ends command on 30 September
1935
Paul
Fanger
Takes command on 30 September 1935
Ends command on 2 September
1937
Paul
Wenneker
Takes command on 2 September 1937
Ends command on 16 November
1939
August
Thiele
Takes command on 16 November 1939
Ends command on 18 April
1940
Fritz
Krauss
Takes command on 18 April 1940
Ends command on 23 June 1940
Heller
Takes command on 23 June 1940
Ends command on 8 August 1940
Leo
Kreisch
Takes command on 31 March 1941
Ends command on 3 July 1941
Rudolf
Stange
Takes command on 3 July 1941
Ends command on 7 September 1941
Leo Kreisch
Takes command on 7 September 1941
Ends command on 17 January 1942
Rudolf Stange
Takes command on 17 January 1942
Ends command on 10 November 1943
Horst
Biesterfeld
Takes command on 10 November 1943
Ends command on January
1944
Bodo
Heinrich Knocke
Takes command on January 1944
Ends command on 22 April
1945
Ernst
Lange
Takes command on 22 April 1945
Ends command on 4 May 1945
German
Warships, 1815-1945: Major Surface Vessels.
ISBN-10: 0851775330
German
Warships, 1815-1945: U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels.
ISBN-10: 155750301X
German warships of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0668040378
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