Wilhelm Meisel

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nameWilhelm Meisel
imageWilhelm Meisel.jpg
captionMeisel in 1941
birth_date
birth_placeZwickau
death_date
death_placeMülheim
placeofburial_coordinates
allegianceGerman Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
branchImperial German Navy
Reichsmarine
Kriegsmarine
branch_labelBranch
serviceyears1913–1945
rankAdmiral
unitSMS Hertha
SMS Moltke
SMS Stralsund
SMS Kaiserin Augusta
commandsHeavy cruiser Admiral Hipper
battlesWorld War I
awardsKnight's Cross of the Iron Cross
spouse
website
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Wilhelm Meisel (4 November 1891 – 7 September 1974) was an Admiral of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Meisel was born in Zwickau and joined the Navy as a midshipman in 1913. During the First World War he served on the battlecruiser , the light cruiser and the . He later served as a staff officer on Torpedo boats and was interned in Scapa Flow. After the scuttling of the High Seas Fleet he was held as a POW by the British and repatriated in 1921.

During the 1920s Meisel commanded a torpedo boat flotilla and held several staff posts and commanded the in 1929.

During World War II Meisel commanded a destroyer flotilla in the invasion of Poland of 1939 and was appointed commander of the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper in 1940. He was made Chief of Staff of Naval Group west in 1943 and Chief of Naval staff in 1943.

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  • {{Cite book |last=Dörr |first=Manfred |year=1996 |title=Die Ritterkreuzträger der Überwasserstreitkräfte der Kriegsmarine—Band 2: L–Z |trans-title=The Knight's Cross Bearers of the Surface Forces of the Navy—Volume 2: L–Z |language=German |location=Osnabrück, Germany |publisher=Biblio Verlag |isbn=978-3-7648-2497-6
  • {{Cite book |last=Fellgiebel |first=Walther-Peer |year=2000 |orig-date=1986 |title=Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile |trans-title=The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches |language=German |location=Friedberg, Germany |publisher=Podzun-Pallas |isbn=978-3-7909-0284-6
  • {{Cite book |last=Scherzer |first=Veit |year=2007 |title=Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives |trans-title=The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives |language=German |location=Jena, Germany |publisher=Scherzers Militaer-Verlag |isbn=978-3-938845-17-2

| before = Konteradmiral Günther Lütjens | after = Kapitän zur See Friedrich Bonte | title = Acting Führer der Torpedoboote (F.d.T.) 1933–1939 | years = 21 October 1939 – 25 October 1939 | before=Admiral Kurt Fricke | after= Chief of the Seekriegsleitung | title=Chief of Staff of the Seekriegsleitung | years=21 February 1943 – 30 April 1944

| portal1=Biography

References

  1. Dörr 1996, p. 54.
  2. Dörr 1996, p. 55.
  3. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 307.
  4. Scherzer 2007, p. 535.

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