2007-01-18 03:44:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
the most successfully U boat commander is Otto Kretschmer with a grand total of 208 954 ton ships sunk and 3 auxiliary warship's and 1 war ship.
He became to getter with 40 men of his crew ( total of 43 ) prisoner of war in 1941 but his record was never beaten .
2007-01-18 05:32:55 · answer #1 · answered by general De Witte 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
These chaps commanded the U48, which was the most successful U-boat of the Second World War.
22 Apr, 1939 - 20 May, 1940 Kptlt. Herbert Schultze (Knights Cross)
21 May, 1940 - 3 Sep, 1940 KrvKpt. Hans Rudolf Rösing (Knights Cross)
4 Sep, 1940 - 16 Dec, 1940 Kptlt. Heinrich Bleichrodt (Knights Cross)
26 Sep, 1940 - Oct, 1943 Oblt. Diether Todenhagen
17 Dec, 1940 - 27 Jul, 1941 Kptlt. Herbert Schultze (Knights Cross)
Aug, 1941 - Sep, 1942 Oblt. Siegfried Atzinger
U48 sunk 51 merchant ships with a total tonnage of 306,875 tons and damaged a further 3 ships with a tonnage of 20,480 tons.
2007-01-18 12:15:43 · answer #2 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, one of Germany's top U-boat "tonnage aces" during the war. Seen the movie Das Boot? He's the german captain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot
Good movie.
2007-01-18 12:25:58 · answer #3 · answered by Mister Farlay 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wolfgang Luth I'd say. Killed oddly enough by a German Naval sentry at the end of the war.
2007-01-18 12:15:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Herbert A. Werner, the author of "Iron Coffins" since he lived to tell his tale of the life on a "Unterseeboot." Were you thinking of Unterseeboot Captain Peter Kremer instead?
2007-01-18 12:12:54 · answer #5 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
My great uncle Von Clauss Veinersnickle. In a year and half, he sank 4 subs, unfortunate thing of it, they were all his.
2007-01-18 13:01:42 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋