Ernst Lindemann (March 28, 1899 – May 27, 1941) was the captain of the German battleship Bismarck. March 28 is the 87th day of the year (88th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 147th day of the year (148th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... The German battleship Bismarck is one of the most famous warships of the Second World War. ...

Hitler and Captain Ernst Lindemann to his left, inspecting crew of battleship Bismarck in 1941.

Family grave Lindemann at Friedhof Dahlem, Berlin, remembering captain Ernst Lindemann

Ernst Lindemann was born in Altenkirchen (now Rhineland-Palatinate). In 1913 he joined the Kaiserliche Marine, and was a gunnery officer on the SMS Elsass and SMS Schleswig-Holstein during World War I. Between 1931 and 1934 he was a lecturer at the Naval Gunnery School and between 1936 and 1938 he was an advisor and later head of the construction department at the Naval High Command. In 1938 he was promoted to the rank of Kapitän zur See, and in August of 1940 he was given command of the battleship Bismarck. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1000x603, 114 KB)Photo made by Nazi photographers ca. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1000x603, 114 KB)Photo made by Nazi photographers ca. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 779 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1193 × 918 pixel, file size: 254 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 779 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1193 × 918 pixel, file size: 254 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Altenkirchen is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, capital of the district Altenkirchen. ... The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... The Kaiserliche Marine or Imperial Navy was the German Navy created by the formation of the German Empire and existed between 1871 and 1919; it grew out of the Prussian Navy and the Norddeutsche Bundesmarine. ... Schleswig-Holstein, a German battleship, started World War II by firing at the Polish base at Westerplatte on 1 September 1939. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Oberkommando der Marine (or OKM for short) was Germanys Naval High Command until 1945. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... . Captain, is the name most often given in naval circles to the NATO rank code of OF-5. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The German battleship Bismarck is one of the most famous warships of the Second World War. ...

Lindemann was respected amongst his crew. Lindemann showed a great deal of attachment to the ship as well, referring to it as "he" rather than the traditional "she" because, he felt, the ship showed a sense of masculine strength. Lindemann's devotion to his crew and his ship's pride erupted in a fiery exchange with his superior, fleet commander Günther Lütjens upon encountering the battlecruiser HMS Hood and the battleship HMS Prince of Wales. Lütjens ordered Lindemann to evade the advancing British ships to which Lindemann responded "I will not let my ship get shot out from under my ass." [[1]] Lindemann ordered the gunnery crews to open fire on. The result was a short fight with the Hood, in which the ship exploded after his ship's shells hit the Hood's magazines, the Prince of Wales was also seriously damaged by hits from shells from the Bismarck and was forced to retreat. The Bismarck was sunk less than a week later after a concentrated effort by the British navy to avenge the Hood. The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ...

Lindemann died in the final firefight between Bismarck and British battleships. He earned both classes of the Iron Cross in World War I, and was posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross in 1941, for sinking the British battlecruiser HMS Hood. A stylized version of the Iron Cross, the emblem of the Bundeswehr, Germanys Armed Forces. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hood after members of the Hood family, which produced several notable Navy officers: HMS Hood (1859) - 91-gun second-rate ship of the line, launched as Edgar. ...