Ernst-Felix Krüder

Infobox Military Person
name=Ernst-Felix Krüder
born=birth date|1897|12|6|df=y
died=death date and age|1941|5|8|1897|12|6|df=y
placeofbirth=Hamburg
placeofdeath=Indian Ocean


caption=
nickname=
allegiance=flagicon|German Empire German Empire (to 1918)
flagicon|Germany Weimar Republic (to 1933)
flagicon|Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
branch=navy|German Empire
navy|Weimar Republic
navy|Nazi Germany
serviceyears=1915–1941
rank=Kapitän zur See
commands= auxiliary cruiser "Pinguin" (HSK 5)
unit=SMS Goeben
SMS König
battles=World War I
*Battle of Jutland
World War II
awards="Ritterkreuz mit Eichenlaub" (posthumous)
laterwork=

Ernst-Felix Krüder (6 December 1897 – 8 May 1941) was a Captain (German: "Kapitän zur See") of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) who, during World War II, commanded a merchant raider.

Ernst-Felix Krüder was killed in action when on 8 May 1941, auxiliary cruiser "Pinguin" (HSK 5) was sunk by HMS "Cornwall". 532 persons, among them 200 prisoners, were lost with the ship.

Awards

* Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st Class
* Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939)
** 2nd Class (30 August 1940)
** 1st Class (11 October 1940)
* "Kriegsabzeichen für Hilfskreuzer"
* Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
** Knight's Cross (22 December 1940)
** 40. Oak Leaves (15 November 1941) (posthumous)
* Mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht on 26 June 1941

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