Background
Nerger was born in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Nerger was born in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Nerger had entered the Navy as a cadet in April 1893, and as a junior officer participated in the China Relief Expedition during the Boxer Rebellion, where he had also been decorated for bravery and intrepidity. In Summer 1914, then-Korvettenkapitän Nerger had taken command of the light cruiser SMS Stettin, which he commanded until taking over SMS Wolf in March 1916. As captain of the Wolf, he led the commerce raider on a 451-day expedition, the longest voyage of a warship during World War I, until May 1918, and was promoted to Fregattenkapitän on January 13, 1917.
In May 1918, he became commander of minesweeper units of the High Seas Fleet, a command he held until war"s education
He retired on July 25, 1919, characterized as a Kapitän zur Secretary On 15 August 1945, Nerger was interned by the Soviet Union at the Sachsenhausen People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs camp where he died two years later.
Peter Hohnen & Richard Guilliatt, THE WOLF - The true story of an epic voyage of destruction in World War One, 2009, Bantam Press, X.