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Hellmuth Max von Ruckteschell (22 March 1890, Eilbek - 24 June 1948, Hamburg) was an officer in the Kaiserliche Marine and the Kriegsmarine, serving in both World War I and World War II. He was one of the most successful merchant raider commanders, serving as the captain of the German commerce raiders ''Widder'' and ''Michel'' during World War II. However, he was ruthless in the execution of his duties, and after the war was convicted of war crimes. ==Pre-World War II== Born in 1890 in Hamburg, Ruckteschell joined the German navy in 1910. In 1916, with the rank of ''Oberleutnant zur See'', he transferred to the U-boat Arm. He served as Watch Officer on and , before being given his own command in July 1917, first of , then in March 1918, of . He earned a reputation as an overly aggressive commander, which caused him to be placed on a black-list of officers the Allied powers considered to have breached the laws of war. This contrasted with his artistic and cultured nature, since he was an avid reader, loved classical music, and was a student of Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy. After the end of World War I, he left Germany to escape the harassment suffered by former submarine crewmen by the victor nations. He lived in Sweden and Lapland for several years, earning a living as a lumberjack and a surveyor, before returning to Germany in the early 1930s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Helmuth von Ruckteschell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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