Otto Ernst Lindemann was a German Kapitän zur See. He was the only commander of the battleship Bismarck during its eight months of service in World War II.
Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann as commander of battleship Bismarck on 24 August 1940
SMS Hertha
SMS Bayern on trials on the Kiel Canal.
Admiral Scheer in the port of Gibraltar during the Spanish Civil War.
German battleship Bismarck
Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched in February 1939. Work was completed in August 1940, when she was commissioned into the German fleet. Bismarck and her sister ship Tirpitz were the largest battleships ever built by Germany, and two of the largest built by any European power.
Bismarck in 1940
Bismarck in port in Hamburg
Bismarck on trials; the rangefinders had not yet been installed
Bismarck, photographed from Prinz Eugen, in the Baltic at the outset of Operation Rheinübung