German Destroyers

All the destroyers that were laid down are listed here. Each ship listed twice was laid down with one original class, but reclassified during the career history of the ship.
The majority of the German destroyer histories, unless otherwise stated on the article themselves were gathered from these three main sources:

German Navy-This is also Michael Emmerich's home page, and has very useful states and also his battles and individual histories mention the destroyers in them.

Power At Sea-This site is one of the main sources for my report. The webmaster and information available have been MOST helpful, and have become one of the main resources.

German Destroyers of World War II, written by M.J. Whitley. This book also has excellent information on German destroyers, wonderful illustrations on armament layouts, stats, and detailed reports on actions of the destroyers. This is truly an excellent book and I recommend that you pick it up if you see it.

This was made as a joint project between Michael Emmerich and myself. Any one of us should be able to answer any questions on the German destroyers. My first goal is going to be to try to get at least one destroyer per class done...then I will work on filling those in as I feel like it.

1934 Class:

Z1 Leberecht Maß
Z2 Georg Thiele
Z3 Max Schultz
Z4 Richard Beitzen

1934A Class:

Z5 Paul Jacobi
Z6 Theodor Reidel
Z7 Hermann Schoemann
Z8 Bruno Heinemann
Z9 Wolfgang Zenker
Z10 Hans Lody
Z11 Bernd von Arnim
Z12 Erich Giese
Z13 Erich Koellner
Z14 Friedrich Ihn
Z15 Erich Steinbrinck
Z16 Frederick Eckoldt

1936 Class:

Z17 Diether von Roeder
Z18 Hans Lüdemann
Z19 Hermann Künne
Z20 Karl Galster
Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp
Z22 Anton Schmitt

1936A Class

Z23
Z24
Z25
Z26
Z27
Z28
Z29
Z30

1936A (Mob) Class:

Z31
Z32
Z33
Z34
Z37
Z38
Z39

1936B (Mob) Class:

Z35
Z36
Z43
Z44
Z45

1938A Class:

Z40
Z41
Z42

1936C Class:

Z46
Z47

1942 Class:

Z51