Kriegsmarine Ranks

Kapitän zur See

Captain


Kapitaen zur See

No exact rules regarding service length for promotion from Fregattenkapitän.

Outstanding was the promotion of Korvkpt. Wolfgang Lüth, who got in 18 months the rank of a Fregattenkapitän and a Kapitän zur See. (The promotion to the Fregattenkapitän was antedated for a month.)

The Kapitän zur See wore the braid shoulder-strap with two stars, the Kapitän zur See (Ing.) has a cog-wheel on the shoulder-strap.

They had a broader stripe on the shade of cap. On the arm they wore four broad strips and the star (engineer officers also wore the cog-wheel).

Kapitaen zur See
Kapitän zur See Eberhardt Godt
of the BdU staff (right)


Kapitän zur See
Kapitän zur See Werner Hartmann (left),
Commander of U-198 after a 200-day-long patrol.
No wonder these guys are smiling to be back!



Korvettenkapitän - Fregattenkapitän - Kapitän zur See


Kriegsmarine Ranks