Kapitän zur See Hans Wilhelm Langsdorff
(1894-1939)
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December 14, 1939: Left to right: Captain Dietrich Niebuhr, German naval attaché at Buenos Aires,
Kapitän zur See Hans W. Langsdorff, with his wounded hand in his uniform, an unidentified crewman and
Oberleutnant zur See Kurt Diggins, in a motor launch at Montevideo, Uruguay.

(Photo courtesy of Hugo R. Sochi, from the private collection of Ana Marcela Halupczok, daughter of
Maschinengefreiter Erich Halupczok, Division 9, Admiral Graf Spee)

 

December 15, 1939: From left to right; Captain Dietrich Niebuhr German naval attaché at Buenos Aires,
Otto Langmann (in black suit) Nazi Minister to Uruguay, Kapitän zur See Hans W. Langsdorff and Oberleutnant zur See Kurt Diggins in Montevideo, Uruguay.

(Photo courtesy of Hugo R. Sochi, from the private collection of Delia S. Neumann wife of
Matrosenobergefreiter Gustav Neumann, Division 3, Admiral Graf Spee)

 

December 15, 1939: Kapitän zur See Hans W. Langsdorff at the funeral for the the crew of the Admiral Graf Spee. Father Kuhn and Pastor Kummer are seen at the bottom right.

(Photo courtesy of Hugo R. Sochi, from the private collection of Delia S. Neumann wife of
Matrosenobergefreiter Gustav Neumann, Division 3, Admiral Graf Spee)

 

December 15, 1939: Kapitän zur See Hans W. Langsdorff at the funeral for the the crew of the Admiral Graf Spee. Father Kuhn and Pastor Kummer are seen to Langsdorff's left. Note that Langsdorff is the only one giving a traditional naval salute.

(Photo courtesy of Hugo R. Sochi, from the private collection of Delia S. Neumann wife of
Matrosenobergefreiter Gustav Neumann, Division 3, Admiral Graf Spee)

 

December 15, 1939: Kapitän zur See Hans W. Langsdorff consoling a distraught officer at the funeral of the crewmen killed in the Battle of the River Plate. Pastor Kummer can be seen to the right of Langsdorff.

 



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