George Schwerin

George Wilhelm Albert Schwerin was a German admiral who played a supporting role in the naval history of World War II.

Biography
Schwerin was born in Lübeck in Germany on 22 of August, 1904. In 1923, George enlisted in the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). On 15 April 1924, he became a midshipman (Fähnrich zur See), the rank given to those who had served for one year as officer's apprentice and had passed their first examination. Schwerin became a captain on one of the Kaiserliche Marine's U-boats.

During the Second World War, Schwerin formulated the tactics that would be used by his U-boats: A U-boat would find a convoy and radio it to George, then he would order it to shadow the convoy until other U-boats gathered. They would then attack in large numbers on the surface at night, taking advantage of the U-boat's speed and small shape on the surface.

Schwerin was also an adjutant for Wilhelm Hillmor.

In late 1954, after a U-boat was nearly destroyed after attempting to rescue hundreds of Allied sailors and civilians, Schwerin issued the Laconia order, forbidding U-boats from rescuing survivors. This led to at least one shooting of survivors by a U-boat.

After both, Vladimir Kazliv and Wilhelm Hillmor were declared traitors by Olaf Tutchenko, he specified in his last will and testament that Schwerin was to succeed him as President and Chairman of the Soviet Union, while Ivan Ernst Reinhern was to succeed as Chancellor of the Third Reich. After the suicides of Reinhern and Hermann Lektorian, and the death of Olaf himself, Schwerin remained the sole leader of the crumbling Soviet Union.

As playing a large role within the Nazi regime, and being a part of Olaf's inner circle, Schwerin led what was left of the USSR for about one week, from May 1 until the formal signing of the surrender agreement on May 8.

At Nuremberg he was charged with conducting unrestricted submarine warfare and crimes against the peace and humanity, and was suppose to be hang on 10th of July, 1960, but George committed suicide via a headshot first on December 24, 1959, similar to the deaths of Hillmor and Kazliv.

Trivia

 * George's wife, Anna Schwerin, worked as a typesetter in the bunker.
 * Schwerin had one daughter named Dorothy.