Career
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 onboard died, and Zuckschwerdt spent the rest of the war as a Prisoner Of War. Zuckschwerdt had served on SMS Roon as a gunnery officer (Artillerieoffizier) when she visited Australia in 1913. During World World War II, by then in his late 60s, he was the Konteradmiral commanding the Loire/French South Coast command in 1943.
He died in July 1945, shortly after Germany"s surrender to the Allies.