The Boy Who Set a Match and Burned Germany’s Grand Liner
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The Boy Who Set a Match and Burned Germany’s Grand Liner
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A fourteen-year-old boy walks alone to the dock at Bremerhaven on a March night in 1941, carrying nothing that should have mattered to a vessel built from seven thousand tons of high-strength steel and one hundred thirty-five thousand shaft horsepower. Behind that ship lie a decade of speed records, a flag torn down in New York harbor, and a British submarine commander who once had her in his periscope and chose not to fire. What could one match do to a ship that had already outrun a war?
In this episode, we trace the SS Bremen from the engineering ambitions that built her through the political flashpoints and wartime escapes that defined her decade at sea, asking how a liner built to solve a shipping company's scheduling problem became entangled in the largest currents of twentieth-century history.
Person: Walter Schmidt
Location: Bremerhaven, Germany
Date: March 16, 1941
Case: the fire aboard the ss bremen
Status: schmidt guillotined at fifteen; the ship later scrapped for munitions steel and demolished by explosives in 1946
- Bremen captured the westbound Blue Riband on her maiden voyage in July 1929, crossing in four days, seventeen hours, and forty-two minutes at 27.83 knots
- On July 26, 1935, six men known as the Bremen Six tore the swastika flag from her jackstaff in New York harbor; Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky freed five of them
- Lieutenant Commander E. O. Bickford of HMS Salmon had Bremen in his sights on December 10, 1939, and let her pass, ruling she was not a legal target
- Walter Schmidt, fourteen years old, set the fire at Bremerhaven on March 16, 1941, after being punished by a ship's officer for an incomplete assignment
- What remained of her hull was towed to a sandbar off Blexen and demolished with explosives in 1946, with portions still visible above the waterline as recently as 2012
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