U 152 (Navy)

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U 152 (Kriegsmarine)
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Type : II D
Field Post Number : M 33 153
Shipyard: German works , Kiel
Construction contract: September 25, 1939
Build number: 280
Keel laying: July 6, 1940
Launch: December 14, 1940
Commissioning: January 29, 1941
Commanders:
  • January 29, 1941 - July 21, 1941
    Lieutenant Peter-Erich Cremer
  • July 22, 1941 - September 30, 1941
    First Lieutenant Hans Benker
  • October 1, 1940 - July 31, 1942
    Oblt.zS Hans Hildebrandt
  • August 1, 1942 - September 20, 1942
    Lt.zS Hans-Ferdinand Geisler
  • September 21, 1942 - July 24, 1943
    Oblt.zS Victor-Wilhelm Nonn
  • July 25, 1943 - October 15, 1944
    Lt.zS Wilhelm Bergemann
  • October 16, 1944 - May 5, 1945
    Oblt.zS Gernot Thiel
Calls: no ventures
Sinkings:

no

Whereabouts: sunk by the occupation on May 5, 1945

U 152 was a German submarine from type II D , which in World War II by the German navy as a training boat in the Baltic Sea was used.

history

The order for the boat was awarded to the Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel on September 25, 1939 . The keel was laid on July 6, 1940 and the launch on December 14, 1940. U 152 was put into service on January 29, 1941 by Lieutenant Peter-Erich Cremer . The boat bore the mark of the 24th U-Flotilla, a white V, as well as the crew mark of the officer class of 1937 , two crossed swords and a stylized white hourglass on the tower.

After its commissioning, the boat belonged to the 24th U-Flotilla in Memel as a training boat until August 31, 1941 . From September 1, 1941 to March 1945, it was a school boat in the 21st U-Flotilla in Pillau . From March 1945 to May 5, 1945 it was part of the 31st U-Flotilla in Hamburg as a training boat .

U 152 was a school and training boat and did not complete any activities.

Whereabouts

The boat was sunk on May 5, 1945 in Wilhelmshaven in the west chamber of the IV entrance (Raederschleuse), by the crew themselves, in compliance with the rainbow order . In October 1945 the boat was blown up and scrapped by the British.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Busch u. Röll: The Submarine War 1939–1945. The construction of submarines in German shipyards. Mittler and Son (1997), 38
  2. ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coat of arms of Maling's German submarines 1939-1945. Koehler Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , page 63 and page 221

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 .