Amelung von Varendorff (officer)

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Amelung of Varendorff (actually , Hans-Hermann Otto Amelung v V. * 20th December 1913 in Kiel , † 31 July 1942 in the Azores ) was a German naval officer and submarine - Commander . He was in command of the submarine 213 and, as an officer on board the U 47, was involved in the penetration into the Scapa Flow naval base of the Royal Navy .

Life

Commissioning of submarine 213 (1941)

Amelung von Varendorff came from a line of the Westphalian noble family of the Lords of Varendorff . His father was the imperial corvette captain Hans Karl Hermann von Varendorff . Amelung von Varendorff joined the German Navy in 1935 as an officer candidate and received nautical training on the sailing training ship Gorch Fock . The officer training that followed took place at the 3rd Ensign Company of the Mürwik Naval School . In 1938 Ensign von Varendorff was promoted to lieutenant at sea and was advertised for the newly built submarine weapon. The further promotion to first lieutenant at sea fell on September 29, 1939. In the same year Amelung von Varendorff began his service as second watch officer on board the U 47 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Günther Priens . So he took part on October 13, 1939 in the surprise attack on the British naval base Scapa Flow. On August 30, 1941, Amelung von Varendorff received command of the submarine 213 . On July 31, 1942, U 213 was lost during an operation after fighting in the Azores .

Awards

literature

  • Wolfgang Frank: The wolves and the admiral , Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg 1953.
  • Günther Prien: My way to Scapa Flow , German publishing house, Berlin 1940.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , CA Starke Verlag , Adelige Häuser, Volume 17, Limburg (Lahn) 1958.
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945 , Volume 1: German U-Boat Commanders, Berlin 1996.
  • Jordan Vause: Wolf: U-boat commanders in World War II, Annapolis 1997.
  • Clay Blair : Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942 , New York City 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 17, p. 510 f.
personal data
SURNAME Varendorff, Amelung von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Varendorf, Hans-Amelung Hermann Otte von (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German submarine commander
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1942
Place of death Azores