Theodor Burchardi

Infobox Military Person
name=Theodor Burchardi
born=birth date|1892|5|14|df=y
died=dda|1983|8|12|1892|5|14|df=y
placeofbirth=Homberg
placeofdeath=Glücksburg


caption=
nickname=
allegiance=flagicon|German Empire German Empire (to 1933)
flagicon|Germany Weimar Republic (to 1933)
flagicon|Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
branch=navy|German Empire
navy|Weimar Republic
navy|Nazi Germany
serviceyears=1911-1945
rank=Admiral
commands=German cruiser Köln
commanding admiral "Ostland"
unit=
battles=World War I
World War II
*Operation Hannibal
awards=Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
laterwork=

Theodor Burchardi (14 May 1892 – 12 August 1983) was an Admiral with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. He is noted for his organisational achievement in the evacuation of 2 million people from Courland and Eastern Prussia at the end of World War II in Operation Hannibal.

Awards

* Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (1 October 1915)
* Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class and 1st Class
* Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
** Knight's Cross (22 December 1940)
** 583. Oak Leaves (15 September 1944)

References

* Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000). "Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945". Friedburg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
* Range, Clemens (1974). "Die Ritterkreuzträger der Kriegsmarine". Stuttgart, Germany: Motorbuch Verlag. ISBN 3-87943-355-0.