Posted on January 21, 2021January 24, 2021 by Erik Chipchase Kapitän zur See Peter StrausserCaptain Peter Strasser, German airship fleet commander, World War I. Strasser was commander of the German Navy’s fleet of Zeppelin airships during the First World War, directing bombing campaigns from 1915 onwards. He was killed on 5th August 1918 when his airship, Zeppelin L70, was shot down over the Norfolk coast.