Born: 18 December, 1899.
Died: 27 May, 1941 aboard Bismarck.
Age (at the time of Bismarck's sinking): 41.
Rank (at the time of Bismarck's sinking): Fregattenkapitän.
Position: First Staff Officer (I. Admiralstabsoffizier, I. Asto).
Additional notes: Paul Ascher had been the artillery officer aboard the Panzerschiff Graf Spee during her cruise in the South Atlantic.
He was later interned in the Argentine in December 1939 after the scuttling of the ship, but scaped back to Germany.
