Looking for info on;
Chief of Staff (Chef des Stabes): Kapitän zur See Harald Netzbandt who was on the Bismarck when it sank and didn't survive.
Harald Netzbandt recieved the DKiG (German Cross in Gold) on 30.04.1941 as a Kapitän z.S. with the OKM/Flottenkommando. Source: Patzwall & Scherzer (2001).

He received the award posthumously, just some three days after the sinking of the Bismarck.

Netzbandt, Harald (03.08.1892 - 27.05.1941)
01.10.36 - 25.11.39 Chef der Abteilung Allgemeine u. Angelegenheiten der Seeoffiziere im Marinepersonalamt (MPA I)
__.11.39 - 01.08.40 Kommandant Schlachtschiff Gneisenau
02.08.40 - 27.05.41 Chef des Stabes beim Flottenkommando
27.05.41 auf dem Schlachtschiff Bismarck gefallen
DKG: 30.04.42 als Kpt.z.S., Chef des Stabes beim Flottenkommando

Having trouble finding anything beyond these most basic details, wondered if anyone had any further info. I was genuinely surprised to find so little information on such a high ranking officer. I had the honour of meeting his grandson, who told me some interesting stories. I thought it'd be interesting to find out more, but there's little on the web, and few of my books are Naval.

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check here :

KBismarck.org - Naval Discussion Forums • Index page

also the DK books by Veit S. are not complete and he knows it. over the past upteen years he has had a real go around with WaST for obtaining all the information he needs to conclude his works, especially in the 1945 time frame

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Thanks for that, appears he's one of the majority of crew about whom little is known, but the KBismarck site is aiming to change that.

cheers,

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go here :

Forum Marinearchiv

these guys know the ins and outs of the KM