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Theodor Krancke
Krancke (left) with General Walther Buhle and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Born
(1893-03-30)30 March 1893 Magdeburg, German Empire
Died
18 June 1973(1973-06-18) (aged 80) Wentorf bei Hamburg, West Germany
Allegiance
German Empire (to 1919) Weimar Republic (to 1933) Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Imperial German Navy Reichsmarine Kriegsmarine
Years of service
1912–45
Rank
Admiral
Commands held
Cruiser Admiral Scheer
Battles/wars
World War I
World War II
Awards
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
Theodor Krancke (30 March 1893 – 18 June 1973) was a naval commander (admiral) of Nazi 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.
TheodorKrancke (30 March 1893 – 18 June 1973) was a naval commander (admiral) of Nazi Germany during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross...
Bertram Ramsay Omar Bradley Gerd von Rundstedt Erwin Rommel Hugo Sperrle TheodorKrancke Leo von Schweppenburg Friedrich Dollmann Hans von Salmuth Units involved...
Admiral Scheer emerged from the attack undamaged. In November 1939, KzS TheodorKrancke became the ship's commanding officer. Admiral Scheer underwent a refit...
von Friedeburg Eberhard Godt Alfred Saalwächter Wilhelm Marschall TheodorKrancke Martin Harlinghausen Ulrich Kessler Angelo Parona Romolo Polacchini...
auxiliary vessels were sunk and eight other vessels were damaged. Admiral TheodorKrancke, then Chief of Kriegsmarine Group Command West, called the raid a catastrophe...
promoted to Generaladmiral, but was replaced as western commander by TheodorKrancke and deactivated later that spring. During the remainder of the war...
Generalleutnant Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Generalfeldmarschall TheodorKrancke, Kriegsmarine Admiral Heinrich Kreipe, Generalmajor Werner Lorenz,...
and the Faroes. The heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer (Kapitän zur See TheodorKrancke) would carry out another diversionary mission by raiding merchant shipping...
Naval Group Command West.With the highly experienced Kapitän zur See TheodorKrancke in command,Admiral Scheer sailed in October 1940 on her first combat...
Battle of the Atlantic; he was later succeeded in April 1943 by Admiral TheodorKrancke who held the position until the German withdrawal from France and the...
presentation. After the presentation, Hitler met with Dönitz and Vizeadmiral TheodorKrancke in private. In this meeting, Hitler appointed Dönitz as Oberbefehlshaber...
commander until the last month of the war when he was replaced by Admiral TheodorKrancke. The headquarters of the Norwegian naval region was at Oslo where was...
her afloat, and to save ammunition Admiral Scheer's commander, KzS TheodorKrancke, ordered that she be finished off with a torpedo. The torpedo hit the...
been useless due in part to "heavy fire from the sea", while Admiral TheodorKrancke recorded for his war diary, that one of the contributing causes to...
Manstein, German commander of the Wehrmacht (born 1887) 18 June — TheodorKrancke, Kriegsmarine admiral and Knight's Cross recipient (born 1893) 26 June...
Gebachens. Nicht allein vor Gesunde: sondern auch vnd Fürnemblich vor Krancke / in allerley Kranckheiten vnd Gebrästen: auch Schwangere Weiber / Kindbetterinnen...
theatre director Abel Seyler. Friedrich Seyler, Bethesda für alle Elende und Krancke, Basel (Johann Rudolph Genath), 1674 Friedrich Seyler, Anabaptista Larvatus...
Global Information
German Empire (to 1919)
Weimar Republic (to 1933)
Nazi Germany
Imperial German Navy
Reichsmarine
Kriegsmarine