Biography

Bernhard Rogge was born in Germany in 1899, in 1915 during WWI he joined the imperial German navy (the Kaiserliche Marine) served in WWI and won the Iron Cross in second and first class, after the war he served in various cruisers.

From the mid 30es until 1939 he commanded the German Navy's sail training ship "Albert Leo Schlageter", in September 1939 he was assigned to the Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser) "Atlantis", the "Atlantis" capture or sink 21 ships, in one of those ships captured Rogge found top-secret documents about the defenses of the port of Singapore and pass it to the Japanese for those action he won the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves and a samurai sword from the emperor of Japan, after the sinking of the "Atlantis" in 22 November 1941 Rogge spend the rest of the war in Germany and by the end of it he achieved the rank of Vizeadmiral.

In 1957 he joined the West German navy the Bundesmarine as a Konteradmiral and retire from it in 1962, he died in 1982 in Germany.
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