U 121 (Navy)

U 121 (Kriegsmarine) ( previous / next - all submarines )
Type :	II B
Field Post Number :	M 01 240
Shipyard:	Flender-Werke , Lübeck
Construction contract:	August 28, 1937
Build number:	269
Keel laying:	March 31, 1938
Launch:	April 20, 1940
Commissioning:	May 28, 1940
Commanders:	May 28, 1940 - March 30, 1941 Lieutenant Captain Karl-Ernst Schroeter October 1940 - November 5, 1940 Kptlt. Otto Harms i. V. November 6, 1940 - November 27, 1940 Oberleutnant zur See Adalbert Schnee i. V. March 31, 1941 - July 8, 1941 Kptlt. Egon-Reiner Freiherr von Schlippenbach July 9, 1941 - March 25, 1942 Kptlt. Gert Hetschko March 26, 1942 - April 19, 1942 Oblt.zS Ernst von Witzendorff April 20, 1942 - February 8, 1943 Oblt.zS Otto Westphalen September 1942 - December 1942 Lt.zS Otto Hübschen i. V. February 9, 1943 - February 22, 1944 Oblt.zS Ewald Hülsenbeck February 23, 1944 - May 5, 1945 Oblt.zSdR Friedrich Horst
Calls:	no ventures
Sinkings:	no
Whereabouts:	sunk on May 5, 1945 in Wesermünde itself

U 121 was a German submarine from Type II B , which in World War II by the German navy was used.

history

The order for the boat was awarded to Flender-Werke , Lübeck , on August 28, 1937 . The keel was laid on March 31, 1938, the launch on April 20, 1940, the commissioning under Oberleutnant zur See Karl-Ernst Schroeter on May 28, 1940.

After its commissioning, the boat belonged as a school boat to the U-Boat School Flotilla in Kiel until March 25, 1942 , which was renamed the 21st U-Flotilla on July 1, 1940 and relocated to Pillau . May 1942 as a school boat for the 24th U-Flotilla in Memel . From May 16, 1942 to March 16, 1945 the boat was again used as a school boat in the 21st U-Flotilla in Pillau and Memel. From March 17, 1945 to May 5, 1945 it was then used as a school boat with the 31st U-Flotilla in Hamburg.

U 121 was purely a school and training boat and did not run out of business.

Whereabouts

The boat was self- sunk by its crew on May 5, 1945 in Wesermünde according to the rainbow order that had existed for a long time, but was canceled by Grand Admiral Dönitz on the evening of May 4, 1945 . The wreck was lifted in 1949 and scrapped in November 1950.

literature

• Rainer Busch / Hans-Joachim Röll: Der U-Boot-Krieg, Volume 1: The German U-Boot-Kommandanten , Verlag Mittler & Sohn Hamburg-Berlin-Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0490-1
• Rainer Busch / Hans-Joachim Röll: Der U-Boot-Krieg, Volume 2: The U-Boot-Bau on German shipyards , Verlag Mittler & Sohn Hamburg-Berlin-Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6
• Rainer Busch / Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War, Volume 3: German U-Boat Successes from September 1939 to May 1945 , Verlag Mittler & Sohn Hamburg-Berlin-Bonn, ISBN 3-8132-0513-4
• Rainer Busch / Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War, Volume 4: German U-Boat Losses from September 1939 to May 1945 , Verlag Mittler & Sohn Hamburg-Berlin-Bonn, ISBN 3-8132-0514-2
• Rainer Busch / Hans-Joachim Röll: Der U-Boot-Krieg, Volume 5: The knight's cross bearers of the submarine weapon from September 1939 to May 1945 , Verlag Mittler & Sohn, ISBN 3-8132-0515-0
• Clay Blair : The U-Boat War, Volume 1: Die Jäger 1939–1942 Wilhelm Heyne Verlag Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-12345-X
• Clay Blair: The U-Boat War, Volume 2: The Hunted 1942-1945 Wilhelm Heyne Verlag Munich 1996, ISBN 3-453-16059-2
• Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Urbes Verlag Hans Jürgen Hansen, Graefelfing before Munich 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7

See also

• List of German submarine classes
• Submarine war

Web links

• u-bootarchiv.de , a detailed site about German submarines (German)