He was assigned for eight months to the sail training ship SMS Niobe before being posted to Naval School Kiel.

[1] With the outbreak of war in August 1914, Schröder was recalled to active service and named commanding Admiral in Flanders, placed in charge of both the seagoing forces and the 1st Marine Division.

By mid-November 1914 additional naval infantry formations were raised and added to his command to form Marinekorps Flandern.

[2] After transfer to the Baltic near the end of the war, Schröder was ordered by Wilhelm II to take action against mutineering German sailors at Kiel.

He died in Berlin-Halensee on 23 July 1933, age 79, and was buried at the Invalidenfriedhof cemetery, Berlin, with son Joachim (1885-1929) who preceded him in death.