| 10-11.01.1940:   | 
Mine laying operations together with the destroyers Wilhlem Heidkamp
, Karl Galster
, Richard Beitzen
, Friedrich Ihn
 and Friedrich Eckold
 against Newcastle. | 
 
| 07.04.1940:   | 
Operation Weserübung: Anton Schmitt
 joins the destroyers Georg Thiele
, Wolfgang Zenker
, Bernd von Arnim
, Erich Giese
, Erich Koellner
, Diether von Roeder
, Hans Lüdemann
, Hermann Künne
 and Wilhlem Heidkamp
 in the Narvik Attack Group. | 
 
| 10.04.1940:   | 
Operation Weserübung: The destroyer is sunk by British destroyers at Narvik by artillery and torpedo hits. | 
 
 
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