8th submarine flotilla
The 8th U-Flotilla (8th submarine flotilla) was a military unit in the former German Navy during World War II .
history
The flotilla was founded in Königsberg in October 1941 under the command of Lieutenant Georg-Wilhelm Schulz as a training flotilla . From February 1942 she was stationed in Danzig. She trained the Danzig, some Bremen, some Hamburg and Kiel boats. The first submarine assigned to the flotilla was U 88 under Kapitänleutnant Heino Bohrmann on October 15, 1941. This flotilla mainly included type VII submarines , but also type IX B , type XVII , type XXI and des Type XXIII were subordinate to the flotilla as front or training boats. The boats of the 8th U-Flotilla carried out operations in the Baltic Sea between June 1944 and spring 1945. The flotilla was disbanded when the Red Army approached in February 1945.
Flotilla sign
The Gdańsk coat of arms was chosen as the flotilla symbol, with the silhouette of a submarine in front of it.
Flotilla Chiefs
The 8th U-Flotilla in Königsberg and later Danzig was subordinate to the following flotilla chiefs between 1941 and 1945:
- Kapitänleutnant Georg-Wilhelm Schulz - October 1941 to January 1942 (formerly in command of U 64 , U 124 )
- Corvette Captain Hans Eckermann - January 1942 to January 1, 1943 (formerly Commander U 20 , UA )
- Corvette captain Werner von Schmidt - January 1943 to January 1943 (formerly in command of U 9 , U 12 , U 15 , U 25 , U 40 , U 116 )
- Captain Bruno Mahn (deputy) - January 1943 to March 1943 (formerly Commander UB , U D5 )
- Corvette Captain Werner von Schmidt - March 1943 to April 30, 1944
- Frigate Captain Hans Pauckstadt - May 1, 1944 to February 23, 1945 (formerly in command of U 18 , U 12 , U 34 , U 30 , U 516 , U 193 )
Reported submarines
A total of 264 submarines belonged to the 8th U-Flotilla in the course of its existence:
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Georg Högel: Emblems, coat of arms of Maling's German U-Boats 1939–1945. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg (2009) 5th edition, p. 28
- ↑ Bodo Herzog : German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1996, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 , page 229
literature
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 .