Adalbert Schneider, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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First Gunnery Officer on battleship Bismarck
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Place of Birth: Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Adalbert Schneider
- Adalbert Schneider (10 March 1904 – 27 May 1941) was the First Gunnery Officer on board the battleship Bismarck, and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for the sinking of HMS Hood on 24 May 1941 in the Battle of the Denmark Strait.
- Less than a week later, on 27 May 1941, Schneider and the majority of Bismarck's crew were killed in action during Bismarck's last battle.
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