ホルスト・ヴェッセル
Holding the rank of "Unteroffizier", he was posted to 5. "Staffel" (5th squadron) of "Zerstörergeschwader" 26 "Horst Wessel" (ZG 26—26th Destroyer Wing), named after the Nazi martyr Horst Wessel, on 2 August 1939.