U-boat commanders

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 93. Chapters: Georg Ludwig von Trapp, Karl Dönitz, Wilhelm Canaris, List of successful U-boat commanders, Wolfgang Lüth, Günther Prien, Reinhard Hardegen, Martin Niemöller, Klaus Bargsten, Otto Kretschmer, Reinhard Suhren, Albrecht Brandi, Robert Gysae, Max Valentiner, Heinrich Bleichrodt, Adalbert Schnee, Friedrich Guggenberger, Alfred Saalwächter, Helmuth von Ruckteschell, Heinrich Schroeteler, Herbert Schultze, Herbert Wohlfarth, Heinrich Timm, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, Erich Topp, Karl-Friedrich Merten, Siegfried von Forstner, Georg-Wilhelm Schulz, Wilhelm Marschall, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Heinz-Wilhelm Eck, Heino von Heimburg, Hans-Rudolf Rösing, Jürgen Wattenberg, Heinrich Schonder, Joachim Schepke, Werner Henke, Otto von Bülow, Erich Würdemann, Rolf Mützelburg, Georg Lassen, Fritz Frauenheim, Günther Hessler, Engelbert Endrass, Heinrich Liebe, Józef Unrug, Otto Schuhart, Fritz-Julius Lemp, Albrecht Achilles, Karl-Heinz Moehle, Walter Warzecha, Adolf Piening, Carl Emmermann, Helmut Brümmer-Patzig, Heinz Franke, Werner Hartmann, Gerhard Bigalk, Otto Westphalen, Max-Martin Teichert, Ernst Bauer, Helmut Rosenbaum, Hermann Bauer, Peter-Erich Cremer, Hans-Dietrich von Tiesenhausen, Victor Oehrn, Jost Metzler, Werner Winter, Viktor Schütze, Helmut Möhlmann, Otto von Schrader, Karl Thurmann, Walther Forstmann, Jürgen Oesten, Robert-Richard Zapp, Waldemar Mehl, Hans-Günther Lange, Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Rolf Thomsen, Günter Kuhnke, Otto Steinbrinck, Harro Schacht, Herbert Kuppisch, Klaus Scholtz, Hans-Georg Hess, Helmut Witte, Erwin Rostin, Günther Krech, Johann Mohr, Hans Jenisch, Otto Ites, Nicolai Clausen, Hermann Stuckmann, Heinz-Otto Schultze, Werner Hartenstein, Hans Heidtmann, Hermann Rasch, Wilhelm Rollmann, Hans-Hartwig Trojer, Hans Witt, Wolfgang Heyda, Ernst Kals, Paul Brasack, Gunter Jahn, Wilhelm Dommes, Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat, Hans-Werner Kraus, Otto Weddigen, Georg Schewe, Ernst Hechler, Kurt Dobratz, Claus Korth, Hans-Joachim Förster, Hans Rose, Ulrich Folkers, Hans Lehmann, Karl-Ernst Schroeter, Reinhart Reche, Egon-Reiner von Schlippenbach, Hans-Jürgen Hellriegel, Günther Müller-Stöckheim, Johannes Lohs, Günther Pulst, Hans Howaldt, Dietrich Schöneboom, Alfred Eick, Walther Schwieger, Ernst Mengersen, Hans-Gerrit von Stockhausen, Werner Lott, Karl Neitzel, Günther Heydemann, Karl Jäckel, Harald Gelhaus, Gustav Poel, Reinhold Saltzwedel, Wilhelm Franken, Horst-Arno Fenski, Horst von Schroeter, August Maus, Günther Seibicke, Herbert Schneider, Gerhard Thäter, Peter Zschech, Eberhard Godt, Karl-Heinz Marbach, Paul König, Siegfried Strelow, Karl Fleige, Friedrich Markworth, Ralf-Reimar Wolfram, Georg Staats, Waldemar Kophamel, Heinz Sieder, Siegfried Koitschka, Ludwig von Friedeburg, Werner Fürbringer, Siegfried Lüdden, Fritz Poske, Gerhard Schaar, Gerd Kelbling. Excerpt: World War IIBattle of the Atlantic Karl Dönitz (German pronunciation: ; 16 September 1891 ¿ 24 December 1980) was a German naval commander during World War II. He started his career in the German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine, or "Imperial Navy") during World War I. In 1918, while in command of UB-68, the submarine was sunk by British forces and Dönitz was taken prisoner. While in a prisoner of war camp, he formulated what he later called Rudeltaktik ("pack tactic", commonly called "wolfpack"). At the start of World War II, he was the senior submarine officer in the German Navy. In January 1943, Dönitz achieved the r...