December, Leberecht Maass, together with her sisters Z2 Georg Thiele, Z3MaxSchultz, and Z4 Richard Beitzen, sailed to the area of Iceland to evaluate her
the 1st Destroyer Division on 1 December 1937 and made a port visit to Ulvik, Norway, in April 1938, together with her sisters Z3MaxSchultz and Z4 Richard
damaged another. On 22 February 1940, Z4 Richard Beitzen and the destroyers, Z3MaxSchultz, Z1 Leberecht Maass, Z6 Theodor Riedel, Z13 Erich Koellner and