Biography
Erich Raeder was born on 24th April
1876 in and Wandsbek. Already with the age of 14 years he wet to a cadett
school. In 1897 he was promoted to Leutnant. During the First World War he was
commander of the cruiser Köln. In 1928 he became the supreem commander
of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine). Under his command the German Navy was
rearmed again. Due to some disagreement with Adolf Hitler he retires from
his appointment the supreem commander of the German Navy in January 1943.
His successor was Großadmiral Dönitz how was up to this point
in charge of the German submarine fleet.
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After the end of World War II he was convicted as a major
war criminal during the war crimes trials which were held at Nürnberg.
He was then sentenced to life imprisonment at Spandau Prison, West
Berlin. Erich Raeder died in 1960.
Figures
A total of two portrait
figures were produced by Hausser/Elastolin, which represent Großadmiral
Erich Raeder. A rare figure is the on which shows him in a white coat.
There have always been romours among collectors that the Lineol figure
8/30 is also a portrait figure of Raeder. However there is no evidence
for this and in all the Lineol catalogues this figure is always only marked
as an unknown admiral.
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