Portrait of Korvettenkapitän (Sea Major) Erich Raeder wearing Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) uniform during World War I. Raeder was promoted to Korvettenkapitän on April 15, 1911, and was promoted again to Fregattenkapitän six years later, on April 26, 1917. In this photo he wears the 1914 Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse, which he received on February 18, 1915. His colleagues know him as people who are "loners, uncomfortable in relationships that are more than work, religious, authoritarian, puritanical, lack respect for individual initiative... and highly sensitive to any criticism." Because of his cold demeanor and always avoiding close contact with other people, Raeder's friends (who were only a handful) admitted that they knew very little about the man who would later become Commander in Chief of the German Navy in World War II.
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Bundesarchiv Bild 134-C1917
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