Z36 was a Type 1936B destroyer of the German Kriegsmarine. She was laid down on 15 September 1941 at Deschimag in Bremen, launched on 15 May 1943 and commissioned on 19 February 1944. Her service was with the 6th Destroyer Flotilla in the Baltic Sea, under the command of Kapitan Kommendant Fredric von Hausen. On 12 December, while laying a minefield off Estonia in the Gulf of Finland, she struck a German mine and sank.