Helmut Sommer

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 35)



No ships sunk or damaged.


Born  24 Aug 1914 Breslau
Died  17 Sep 1973(59)


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Ranks

5 Apr 1935 Offiziersanwärter
25 Sep 1935 Seekadett
1 Jul 1936 Fähnrich zur See
1 Jan 1938 Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Apr 1938 Leutnant zur See
1 Oct 1939 Oberleutnant zur See
1 Aug 1942 Kapitänleutnant

Decorations

  Iron Cross 2nd Class
  Iron Cross 1st Class
3 Aug 1944 German Cross in Gold

U-boat Commands

U-boatFromTo
U-139 1 Jul 1942 30 Sep 1942   No war patrols 
U-78 Nov, 1942 16 May 1943   No war patrols 
U-853 25 Jun 1943 9 Jul 1944   1 patrol (67 days) 

Patrol info for Helmut Sommer

 U-boat Departure Arrival  
1. U-853 11 Apr 1944  Kiel  14 Apr 1944  Kiel   4 days
2. U-853 20 Apr 1944  Kiel  22 Apr 1944  Marviken   3 days
3. U-853 25 Apr 1944  Marviken  26 Apr 1944  Bergen   2 days
4. U-853 29 Apr 1944  Bergen  4 Jul 1944  Lorient  Patrol 1,67 days


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.

Media links


German U-boat Commanders of World War II

Busch, Rainer and Röll, Hans-Joachim

Listing of all U-boat commanders


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