Bernhard Rogge (November 4, 1899 - 1982) was a Kapitän zur See of the German Kriegsmarine who, during World War II, commanded a merchant raider. He was awarded a Japanese ornate Samurai sword and the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his actions as the commander of the Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser) Atlantis (Schiff 16). November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime... Captain is both a nautical term and a military rank. ... The German Navy has had several names depending on the political structure of Germany at the time: Deutsche Marine (German Navy) (1848)-(1852) Norddeutsche Bundesmarine (Northern German Federal Navy) (1866-1871) Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) (1872-1918) Vorläufige Reichsmarine (1919-1921) Reichsmarine (State Navy) (1921-1935) Kriegsmarine (War Navy... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Merchant raiders are ships which disguise themselves as noncombatant merchant vessels, whilst actually being armed and intending to atttack enemy vessels. ... The katana (刀) is the Japanese sabre or longsword (大刀 daitō), although many Japanese use this word generically as a catch-all word for sword. ... The Iron Cross (German: Eisernes Kreuz) is a military decoration of Germany which was established by King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia and first awarded on 10 March 1813. ... USS Port Royal, a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, launched in 1994. ... Atlantis, known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 16 and to the Royal Navy as Raider-C, was a converted German Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser, or merchant or commerce raider) of the Kriegsmarine, which, during World War II, travelled more than 161,000 km in 602 days, and sank 22 ships totaling...

Rogge became a Vizeadmiral (vice-admiral) by the end of World War II, and eventually became a Konteradmiral (rear-admiral) of the West German Bundesmarine. Admiral is a word from either the Arabic term amir-al-bahr, or the Irish term Ard muirfhear or Ardmurar , both meaning commander of the seas. ... Admiral is a word from either the Arabic term amir-al-bahr, or the Irish term Ard muirfhear or Ardmurar , both meaning commander of the seas. ... West Germany was the informal but almost universally used name for the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 until 1990, during which years the Federal Republic did not yet include East Germany. ... The German Navy has had several names depending on the political structure of Germany at the time: Deutsche Marine (German Navy) (1848)-(1852) Norddeutsche Bundesmarine (Northern German Federal Navy) (1866_1871) Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) (1872-1918) Vorläufige Reichsmarine (1919-1921) Reichsmarine (State Navy) (1921-1935) Kriegsmarine (War Navy) (1935_1945...

Compliments

The skipper of the British vessel, City of Baghdad, which the Atlantis sunk in July of 1941, stated, "His treatment of prisoners left respect, instead of hatred." The Captain of the"City of Bagdad was Captain J. Armstrong White. He wrote the forward in "Atlantis, The story of a German Surface Raider" written by U. Mohr & A.V. Sellwood. In 1940 the father of Mark Ellman was taken on board after his ship "The Scientist" was sunk by Rogge. 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mark Ellman is a person of South African descent whos chief claim to fame is that his father was once a POW on board the Atlantis, the famous German surface raider in World War II. The Captain of Atlantis, Bernhard Rogge, was considered a humane commander and went on...

Military Career of Bernhard Rogge

• 1915 -- Joins the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) as an ensign
• After World War I -- serves on various cruisers
• September 1939 -- assigned to the Hilfskreuzer Atlantis
  • mid-December 1939 -- the Atlantis is formally commissioned
  • March 31, 1940 -- the Atlantis sets out to sea
  • November 22, 1941 -- the Atlantis is sunk by HMS Devonshire
• After World War II -- discharged
• June 1, 1957 -- Enteres the post-World War II West German Bundesmarine with the rank of Konteradmiral
  • June 1, 1957 - September 29, 1957 Delegated with the Command of Military Area Command I
  • September 30, 1957- March 31, 1962 -- Commander of Military Area Command I.
  • April 15, 1958- March 31, 1962 -- At the same time, NATO Commander of Land Forces in Schleswig-Holstein (COMLAND-SCHLESWIG)
• March 31, 1962 -- Retires from the German Bundesmarine as a Konteradmiral