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'''Wilhelm Meisel''' (4 November 1891 – 7 September 1974) was an [[Admiral]] of the [[Kriegsmarine]] of [[Nazi Germany]] during [[World War II]] and a recipient of the [[Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross]].

Meisel was born in Zwickau and joined the Navy as a midshipman in 1913. During the First World War he served on the battlecruiser ((SMS|Moltke)), the light cruiser ((SMS|Stralsund)) and the ((SMS|Möwe|auxiliary cruiser|6)). He later served as a staff officer on Torpedo boats and was interned in Scapa Flow. After the scuttling of the [[High Seas Fleet]] he was held as a POW by the British and repatriated in 1921.

During the 1920s Meisel commanded a torpedo boat flotilla and held several staff posts and commanded the ((Ship|German cruiser|Karlsruhe)) in 1929.

During World War II Meisel commanded a destroyer flotilla in the [[invasion of Poland]] of 1939 and was appointed commander of the [[German cruiser Admiral Hipper|heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper]] in 1940. He was made Chief of Staff of Naval Group west in 1943 and [[Seekriegsleitung|Chief of Naval staff]] in 1943.

== Awards ==
* [[Iron Cross]] (1914) 2nd Class (17 March 1915) & 1st Class (15 April 1917)<ref name="Dörr p54">Dörr 1996, p. 54.</ref>
* [[Hanseatic Cross]] of Hamburg (June 1916)<ref name="Dörr p54" />
* [[Albert Order]] of Saxony, 2nd Class with Swords (May 1916)
* [[The Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918]] (December 1934)<ref name="Dörr p54" />
* [[Spanish Cross]] in Silver (6 June 1939)<ref name="Dörr p55">Dörr 1996, p. 55.</ref>
* [[Iron Cross|Clasp to the Iron Cross]] (1939) 2nd Class (26 October 1939) & 1st Class (8 May 1940)<ref name="Dörr p54" />
* [[Destroyer War Badge]] (July 1941)<ref name="Dörr p55" />
* [[High Seas Fleet Badge]] (1 November 1941)<ref name="Dörr p55" />
* [[Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross]] on 26 February 1941 as ''[[Kapitän zur See]]'' and commander of the heavy cruiser "Admiral Hipper"<ref>Fellgiebel 2000, p. 307.</ref><ref>Scherzer 2007, p. 535.</ref>
* [[Order of the Rising Sun]], 2nd class (Japan)<ref name="Dörr p55" />

==References==

===Citations===
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===Bibliography===
((Refbegin))
* ((Cite book
  |last=Dörr
  |first=Manfred
  |year=1996
  |title=Die Ritterkreuzträger der Überwasserstreitkräfte der Kriegsmarine—Band 2: L–Z
  |trans-title=The Knight's Cross Bearers of the Surface Forces of the Navy—Volume 2: L–Z
  |language=German
  |location=Osnabrück, Germany
  |publisher=Biblio Verlag
  |isbn=978-3-7648-2497-6
))
* ((Cite book
  |last=Fellgiebel
  |first=Walther-Peer
  |authorlink=Walther-Peer Fellgiebel
  |year=2000
  |origyear=1986
  |title=Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile
  |trans-title=The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches
  |language=German
  |location=Friedberg, Germany
  |publisher=Podzun-Pallas
  |isbn=978-3-7909-0284-6
))
* ((Cite book
  |last=Scherzer
  |first=Veit
  |year=2007
  |title=Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives
  |trans-title=The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives
  |language=German
  |location=Jena, Germany
  |publisher=Scherzers Militaer-Verlag
  |isbn=978-3-938845-17-2
))
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| years  = 21 October 1939 – 25 October 1939
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