Ernst Bauer (Kapitän zur See)

Infobox Military Person
name=Ernst Bauer
born=birth date|1914|1|3|df=y
died=dda|1988|3|12|1914|1|3|df=y
placeofbirth=Fürth
placeofdeath=Westerland auf Sylt


caption=
nickname="Dwarf"
allegiance=flagicon|Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (to 1945)
flagicon|West Germany West Germany
branch=navy|Nazi Germany
navy|West Germany
serviceyears= 1933 – 1945, 1955 – 1972
rank=Korvettenkapitän (Kriegsmarine)
Kapitän zur See (Bundesmarine)
commands="U-120"
"U-126"
26. Unterseebootflottille
unit=
battles=
awards=Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
laterwork=

Captain Ernst Bauer (3 January 1914 – 12 March 1988) was a German U-boat commander of the Second World War. Bauer was one of the U-boat commanders who picked up crew of the German auxiliary cruiser "Atlantis", which had been sunk at sea.

Military career

Ernst Bauer joined the Kriegsmarine on 23 September 1933. Promoted to "Leutnant zur See" on 1 October 1936, he volunteered for service in the U-board arm in January 1938 after one year of training on the light cruiser SMS Königsberg. He became a watch officer on U 20 and U 37 before taking command of U 120. He turned over command in November 1940 and took over command of U 126 on 1 March 1941. He conducted five combat patrols into the Caribbean Sea and African waters.

Awards

* Iron Cross (1939)
** 2nd Class (8 November 1939)
** 1st Class (1 August 1940)
* Destroyer War Badge (19 October 1940)
* U-boat War Badge (1939) (8 November 1939)
* Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (16 March 1942) number 104 of the Kriegsmarine

References

* Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000). "Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945". Friedburg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
* Kurowski, Franz (1995). "Knight's Cross Holders of the U-Boat Service". Schiffer Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-88740-748-X.
* Range, Clemens (1974). "Die Ritterkreuzträger der Kriegsmarine". Stuttgart, Germany: Motorbuch Verlag. ISBN 3-87943-355-0.

;External link
* [http://uboat.net/men/bauer.htm uboat.net]
* [http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Personenregister/BauerE-R.htm Lexikon der Wehrmacht]