in medicine from the University of Rostock. Nerger resigned the German Navy almost immediately after the war and did not share the fame that other German commerce raiders enjoyed. Only with the rise of the Nazis to power was Nerger celebrated as a war hero in Germany again. In 1920 he began working for Siemens-Schuckert, were he rose to be in charge of factory security. Nerger benefited from the regime and its persecution of Jews, purchasing a Jewish-owned villa in Potsdam in 1936 for a discount price after the owners were forced to flee. Whether he was involved with the supervision of slave labour used at Siemens during World War II in his role as head of security is unknown but, given his role in the company, historians think it likely. At the end of World War II, Nerger was arrested by the Soviets and incarcerated at the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp, which had become the NKVD special camp Nr. 7, where he died in January 1947. The official cause of death was reported as cachexia, but, according to former inmate Heinz Masuch, Nerger was actually beaten to death by another inmate, Wilhelm Wagner, who ran a protection racket at the camp. Wagner was found not guilty for the crime, which he denied, in 1967 but sentenced to five years imprisonment for other assaults on inmates. References Literature Peter Hohnen & Richard Guilliatt, THE WOLF - The true story of an epic voyage of destruction in World War One, 2009, Bantam Press, Edwin P. Hoyt, Raider Wolf, The Voyage of Captain Nerger, 1916–1918, New York 1974, . Roy Alexander: The Cruise of the Raider Wolf, Yale University Press, 1939. External links Report on the voyage of the Wolf Bio on Karl August Nerger 1875 births 1947 deaths Military personnel from Rostock People from the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (military class) Knights of the Military Order of Max Joseph Recipients of the Military Merit Cross (Mecklenburg-Schwerin), 1st class Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen) Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Lübeck) World War II civilian prisoners People who died in NKVD special camp Nr. 7 Imperial German Navy personnel of World War I Counter admirals of the Kriegsmarine