U 3033

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U 3033
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Type : XXI
Field Post Number : M-52191
Shipyard: AG Weser , Bremen
Construction contract: November 6, 1943
Build number: 1192
Keel laying: November 6, 1944
Launch: January 20, 1945
Commissioning: February 27, 1945
Commanders:
  • February 27, 1945 to May 5, 1945
    OblzS.dR Peter Callsen
Flotilla:

February 27, 1945 to May 5, 1945 Training boat 4th U-Flotilla, Stettin

Calls: no ventures
Sinkings:

no depressions

Whereabouts: Sunk by its own crew on May 5, 1945 in the Flensburg Fjord / Wasserleben Bay. Wreck later lifted and broken up.

U 3033 was a German type XXI submarine , which was used by the Navy during World War II .

history

The first construction contract for boats of the new type XXI was awarded to AG Weser at the beginning of July. This order, which included 24 boats, was canceled at the end of September 1943. Another construction contract was awarded on November 6th, it included the 35 boats of the numbers U 3001 to U 3035 . These boats were made by the so-called section construction in individual parts, partly by factories located far inland. The eight sections were only assembled into a boat at the respective shipyard. The boats of type XXI were manufactured by AG Weser at two other shipyards: Blohm & Voss built the boats with the numbers 2501 and higher and the Danziger Schichau-Werke built the boats from number 3501. U 3033 was thus a boat of the AG Weser in Bremen. It was laid down there on November 6, 1944, one year after the building contract was issued, and launched on January 20, 1945. Commander became first lieutenant at sea of ​​the reserve Peter Callsen. U 3033 was the first submarine under his command. The crew chose a pair of black boots with the heel on Russia and the sole on Great Britain as the tower emblem. Because of this, the boat was nicknamed U-Stinkstiefel .

commander

Peter Callsen was born on October 28, 1911 in Sterup and joined the Navy in November 1939 . He was a member of Crew XI / 39 . From March 1940 to June 1941 he served as an officer on watch with the 2nd outpost boat flotilla and then until July 1942 with the 5th minesweeping flotilla. Following his submarine training, Peter Callsen became First Watch Officer (I WO) on U 1060 . Under the command of Herbert Brammer, he completed several transport trips in the Baltic Sea with this boat to supply the Scandinavian submarine bases. Following his training as a submarine commander, Peter Callsen was given command of U 3033 in the spring of 1945 .

Commitment and history

U 3033 was placed under the 4th U-Flotilla when it was commissioned on February 27, 1945 . During this time it undertook training trips in the Baltic Sea to train the crew and to run in the boat. On May 5, 1945, Commander Callsen sank his own boat in accordance with the longstanding Rainbow Order . Like many German submarine commanders, he acted against the order of Karl Dönitz , who had expressly withdrawn the rainbow order due to the conditions of the Allies in connection with the armistice negotiations. Peter Callsen later became a prisoner of war.

Whereabouts

U 3033 was sunk by its own crew on May 5, 1945 in the Flensburg Fjord . The British lifted U 3033 and had the boat demolished at a scrap yard.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eckard Wetzel: U 2540. The submarine at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven. Karl Müller, Erlangen 1996, ISBN 3-86070-556-3 , p. 54.
  2. ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939-1945. 5th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , p. 181.
  3. ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 1: The German submarine commanders. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0490-1 , p. 43.
  4. ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 , p. 539.
  5. ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 , p. 402.

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