June 25, 1931-The keel of the Admiral Scheer is laid down in the Reichsmarinewerft shipyards of Wilhelmshaven.
April 1, 1933-The Admiral Scheer is launched.
November 12, 1934-The Admiral Scheer is commissioned. The next five months, through April 18, 1935, is spent in training.
October through November 1935-The Admiral Scheer is involved in North Atlantic battle drills.
June 1936-The Admiral Scheer leaves for Stockholm after a voyage around Great Britain with the Deutschland.
July 24 through August 1936-Admiral Scheer takes part in the First Spain operation.
October 2 through December 3, 1936-The Admiral Scheer is involved in the Second Spain operation.
March 15 through April 7, 1937-The Admiral Scheer participates in the Third Spain operation.
May 9 through June 1, 1937-The Admiral Scheer takes part in the Fourth Spain operation.
July 30 through October 11, 1937-The Admiral Scheer is involved in the Fifth Spain operation, then embarks on fleet operations until March 1938.
March 19 through June 29, 1938-The Admiral Scheer participates in the Sixth Spain operation.
April through May 1939-The Admiral Scheer enters the Atlantic for trials.
September 4, 1939-The Admiral Scheer is in Wilhelmshaven during the first British air raid, and shoots down a Bristol Blenheim IV bomber.
Winter 1939 through April 1940-The Admiral Scheer’s conning tower is replaced, and the ship is reclassified as a heavy cruiser.
July through September 1940-The Admiral Scheer is in the Baltic Sea for trials.
October 23, 1940-Admiral Scheer is authorized for commerce warfare.
November 5, 1940-Just five days after passing through the Denmark Straits, the refrigerator ship Mopan was sunk by the Admiral Scheer. The Admiral Scheer then attacks convoy HX84. The Maiden, Trewellard, Kenbame Head, Beaverford, and Fresno are sunk, with other ships damaged. The auxiliary cruiser Jervis Bay manages to keep the Admiral Scheer busy long enough for the rest of the convoy to escape, but is still sunk.
November 12, 1940-The Admiral Scheer is refueled by the tanker Eurofeld.
November 14, 1940-The Admiral Scheer is resupplied by the Nordmarck.
November 24, 1940-The Admiral Scheer sinks the Port Horbard near the Bermudas.
December 1, 1940-The Admiral Scheer sinks the Tribesman.
December 18, 1940-The Admiral Scheer captures the refrigerator ship Duquesa. The supplies from the Duquesa are used to resupply the Thor, Pinquin, and Nordmarck.
December 26, 1940-The Admiral Scheer meets the Thor, Pinguin, Nordmarck, Duquesa, and the Eurofeld at ‘Andalusien point’.
January 9 through January 12, 1941-The Admiral Scheer attempts to attack a troop convoy. The convoy had been previously attacked by the Admiral Hipper barely two weeks earlier.
January 17, 1941-The Admiral Scheer captures the Norwegian Sandefjord, sending the ship to Bordeaux.
January 20, 1941-The Admiral Scheer sinks the Dutch Barneveld and the British Stanpark.
January 24 through January 28, 1941-The Admiral Scheer, Nordmarck, and Thor rendezvous at Andalusien Point.
February 3, 1941-The Admiral Scheer passes the Cape of Good Hope, heading east.
February 14, 1941-The Admiral Scheer rendezvous with the auxiliary cruiser Atlantis, freighter Tannenfels, and the captured Speybank and Letty Brövi.
February 20, 1941-The Admiral Scheer sinks the Greek Gregorios, then captures the British Advocate.
February 21, 1941-The Admiral Scheer is ordered home after sinking the Canadian Cruiser. While returning, the Admiral Scheer sinks the Indonesian Rantaupandjang The Admiral Scheer is then spotted by the British cruiser Glasgow’s search plane.
February 22, 1941-The Admiral Scheer slips past the hunting British and Australian ships, consisting of the carrier Hermes, and the cruisers Canberra, Australia, Shropshire, Emerald, Cape Town, and Glasgow.
March 9, 1941-Almost a week after passing the Cape of Good Hope, the Admiral Scheer meets the Pinguin, Kormoran, Nordmarck at Andalusien Point.
March 11 through March 24, 1941-The Admiral Scheer meets the freighters Portland and Astarufer.
March 23, 1941-The Admiral Scheer reaches Bergen after passing thruogh the Denmark Strait.
April 1, 1941-The Admiral Scheer returns to Kiel.
September through October 1941-The Admiral Scheer is assigned to the Baltic Fleet.
January through February 1942-The Admiral Scheer is moved to Drontheim.
May 1942-The Admiral Scheer is moved to Narvik.
July 1942-The Admiral Scheer, Lützow, and several destroyers attack convoy PQ-17, but the convoy breaks up prematurely and the attack is aborted.
August 16 through August 31, 1942-The Admiral Scheer is with three U-boats for Operation Wunderland. The Russian Alexander Siriyakov is sunk, then the group shells Port Dickson on the 27th.
November 11, 1942-The Admiral Scheer returns to Kiel.
January 1943-The Admiral Scheer undergoes repairs at Wilhelmshaven, then is decommissioned and used as a training ship.
October 1944-The Admiral Scheer is recommissioned.
November 1944 through February 1945-The Admiral Scheer supports the German Army.
March 1945-The Admiral Scheer shells Diefenov and Swinemünde., then returns to Kiel, taking 200 wounded and 800 refugees from Pilau.
May 9 through May 10, 1945-The Admiral Scheer is sunk after several bomb hits.
July 1946-The wreck of the Admiral Scheer is broken up.
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