Ernst Lindemann

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Ernst Lindemann (March 28, 1899 – May 27, 1941) was the captain of the German battleship Bismarck.

Ernst Lindemann was born in Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1913 he joined the Kaiserliche Marine, and was a gunnery officer on the SMS Elsass and SMS Schleswig-Holstein during World War I. Between 1931 and 1934 he was a lecturer at the Naval Gunnery School and between 1936 and 1938 he was an advisor and later head of the construction department at the Naval High Command. In 1938 he was promoted to the rank of Kapitän zur See, and in August 1940 he was given command of the battleship Bismarck.

He earned both classes of the Iron Cross in World War I, and was posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross in 1941, for sinking the British battlecruiser Hood.

He died in the battle that sank the Bismarck.