Richard Ackermann

Portrait sketch of Richard Ackermann

Richard Ackermann was a German Naval officer during World War I. He served as the commanding officer of the battlecruiser SMS Goeben from April 1914 to January 1918.[1] He alone commanded the ship during an engagement in the Black Sea against the Russians in May 1915.[2]

References

  1. Staff, Gary (2014). German Battlecruisers of World War One. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781848323070.
  2. Noppen, Ryan K. (20 July 2015). Ottoman Navy Warships 1914-18. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 28. ISBN 9781472806208.



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