Adalbert Zuckschwerdt

Adalbert Zuckschwerdt (1 January 1874 – 1 July 1945) was captain (Korvettenkapitän) of the German raider SMS Cormoran, which sailed from the German Colony of Tsingtao (Qingdao today), China, until she finally docked was and interned at Guam by the Americans. Zuckschwerdt preempted the confiscation of his ship by the Americans by igniting preplanted explosives and scuttling her in Apra Harbor. Seven of the German sailors on board died, and Zuckschwerdt spent the rest of the war as a POW.

Zuckschwerdt joined the Imperial German Navy on 4 April 1893 and served in different positions on land and sea. From 1902 to 1904 he served as navy officer in the German Colony Kiautschou Bay concession. Thereafter he was appointed as a gunnery officer (Artillerieoffizier) on SMS Prinz Heinrich and SMS Roon, followed by an appointment as Executive Officer (Erster Offizier) and as a gunnery officer (Artillerieoffizier) on SMS Hessen. On 12 February 1913 he travelled to Sydney to take the command of the gunboat SMS Cormoran. He was involved in a raid against indigenous peoples on the German occupied Bougainville Island in February 1914 and afterwards sailed onwards to Tsingtau. He arrived at the city harbour on 30 May 1914. At the beginning of World War I Zuckschwerdt's ship was decommissioned and he and his crew switched to a newly commissioned German Raider, a former civil vessel, captured by the German Cruiser SMS Emden shortly before. The new ship was also named SMS Cormoran.

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