Bernhard Rogge - Military Career

Military Career

• 1915 — joins the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) as an ensign
• After World War I — serves on various cruisers
• Mid-1930s to 1939 — commander of the German Navy's sail training ship Albert Leo Schlageter
• September 1939 — assigned to the Hilfskreuzer Atlantis
  • mid-December 1939 — the Atlantis is formally commissioned
  • 31 March 1940 — the Atlantis sets out to sea
  • 22 November 1941 — the Atlantis is sunk by HMS Devonshire
• After World War II — discharged
• 1 June 1957 — enters the post-World War II West German Bundesmarine with the rank of Konteradmiral
  • 1 June 1957 – 29 September 1957 — delegated with the Command of Military Area Command I
  • 30 September 1957 – 31 March 1962 — Commander of Military Area Command I.
  • 15 April 1958 – 31 March 1962 — at the same time, NATO Commander of Land Forces in Schleswig-Holstein (COMLAND-SCHLESWIG)
• 31 March 1962 — retires from the German Bundesmarine as a Konteradmiral