Rudolf Petersen (Kapitän zur See), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rudolf Petersen (Kapitän zur See)

Recipient of the Knights Cross

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1905

Place of Birth: Sønderborg, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Date of Death: 02-Jan-1983

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Rudolf Petersen (15 June 1905 – 2 January 1983) was a German naval officer during World War II.
Petersen, in his role as Commodore, was the head of the court of what might have been the last desertion-trial of Nazi Germany.
Matrose Fritz Wehrmann, age 26 from Leipzig, Funker Alfred Gail, age 20 from Kassel, and Obergefreiter Martin Schilling, age 22 from Ostfriesland were executed on board Buéa on 10 May 1945 two days after the Unconditional surrender of Germany. The accused had received news of the German capitulation to the British forces on 4 May 1945.
On 6 May 1945 they left their stations on Svendborg on Fünen to get to the mainland.
They were caught by the Danish Police and handed over to the German authorities on Fünen.