| Born | 5 Dec 1921 | Elbing | |
| Died | 14 Jun 1945 | (23) | Flensburg, Germany |
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
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| U-720 | 1 Apr 1944 | 22 Nov 1944 | No war patrols |
Walter Boldt joined the Kriegsmarine in 1939. From Aug 1942 to Jan 1944 he served as First Watch Officer (1WO). During Jan to March 1944 he went through U-boat commander training at the 3rd ULD and 23rd flotilla.
On 1 April 1944 he took command of U-720. He left the boat on 22 Nov and served with the 21st Flotilla until Jan 1945. In Feb he became an instructor with 1st ULD until March, when he underwent U-boat commander sea training on the new type XXI Elektro boat U-3033 from 8 March until 4 May 1945, when the boat was scuttled.
He suffered an accidental death in an explosion onboard the ship Danube at Mürwik, Flensburg, Germany.
Sources
Busch, R and Röll, H-J. (1998). German U-boat commanders of World War II.
Patrol info for Walter Boldt
This commander did not go out on patrols with his boats.
About ranks and decorations
Ranks shown in italics are our database inserts based on the rank dates of his crew comrades. The officers of each crew would normally have progressed through the lower ranks at the same rate.
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