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Erich Bey
Nickname(s)
Achmed
Born
(1898-03-23)23 March 1898 Hamburg, German Empire
Died
26 December 1943(1943-12-26) (aged 45) North Cape
Allegiance
German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Imperial German Navy Reichsmarine Kriegsmarine
Years of service
1916–1943
Rank
Konteradmiral
Commands held
Z14 Friedrich Ihn 4. Zerstörerflottille
Battles/wars
World War I
World War II
Battle of the North Cape †
Awards
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Konteradmiral Erich Bey (23 March 1898 – 26 December 1943) was a German admiral during World War II. He served as commander of the Kriegsmarine's destroyer forces and commanded the battleship Scharnhorst in the Battle of the North Cape on 26 December 1943, during which he went down with his ship.
Konteradmiral ErichBey (23 March 1898 – 26 December 1943) was a German admiral during World War II. He served as commander of the Kriegsmarine's destroyer...
destroyers (Wolfgang Zenker, Erich Koellner and Erich Giese) emerging from the Herjangsfjord, led by Commander ErichBey and then two more (Georg Thiele...
Z38 left Norway's Altafjord under the overall command of Konteradmiral ErichBey. Scharnhorst set course for the convoy's reported position as a south-westerly...
presented itself. ErichBey, by now promoted to Konteradmiral, was given command of the task force. On 22 December Dönitz ordered Bey to be ready to go...
Division (8. Zerstörerdivision). Led by Commander (Fregattenkapitän) ErichBey, Erich Koellner and her sisters Bruno Heinemann, and Wolfgang Zenker laid...
flotilla of torpedo boats. The torpedo boats were led by Kapitän zur See ErichBey, aboard the destroyer Z29. General der Jagdflieger (General of Fighter...
the loss of all but 36 of the German crew of 1,943 (including Admiral ErichBey); this is the war's last action between big-gun capital ships of Britain...
the North Atlantic. Led by Commander (Fregattenkapitän) ErichBey in his flagship Hans Lody, Erich Giese and Bernd von Arnim left port on the morning of...
Korvettenkapitän Theodor Bechtolsheim 4. Zerstörerflottille - Fregattenkapitän ErichBey: Hans Lody (Z 10) - Korvettenkapitän Hubert Freiherr von Wagenheim (Flag...
by a flotilla of torpedo boats. The torpedo boats were led by Kapitän ErichBey, aboard the destroyer Z29. General der Jagdflieger (General of Fighter...
Turahan Bey or Turakhan Beg (Turkish: Turahan Bey/Beğ; Albanian: Turhan Bej; Greek: Τουραχάνης, Τουραχάν μπέης or Τουραχάμπεης; died in 1456) was a prominent...
Albert C. Burrows, World War II U.S. Navy submarine commander "Achmed" – ErichBey, German Kriegsmarine admiral "Allegheny Johnson" or "Alleghany Johnson"...
night of 18/19 November, Steinbrinck was commander (Fregattenkapitän) ErichBey's flagship for an offensive minelaying mission off the British coast when...
1919) March 21 – Paul Alfred Weiss, Austrian biologist (d. 1989) March 23 ErichBey, German admiral (d. 1943) Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, Duchess of Parma...
Hans Mirow 1943 1914 Ernst Kratzenberg 1943 1914 Kurt Böhmer 1943 1914 ErichBey 1943 3 January 1916 (I./16) Gerhard Wagner 23 November 1898 26 June 1987...
the night of 18/19 November, Commander (Fregattenkapitän) ErichBey, in his flagship Z15 Erich Steinbrinck, led Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt and Hans Lody, in...
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8. Trapp, Erich; Beyer, Hans-Veit; Walther, Rainer; Sturm-Schnabl, Katja; Kislinger, Ewald;...
Name Born Naval service Major positions Post war fate Died Konteradmiral ErichBey 23 Mar 1898 (Hamburg) 1916 - 1943 (27 years) * Commander of Cruisers (1943)...
Global Information
German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
Imperial German Navy
Reichsmarine
Kriegsmarine