Friedrich Steinfeldt
Oberleutnant zur See der Reserve (entry, Jahrgang 40)
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Born | 15 Dec 1914 | Bad Doberan | |
Died | 29 Nov 1945 | (30) |
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U-boat Commands
U-boat | From | To | |
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UIT-21 | 14 Oct 1943 | 15 Apr 1944 | No war patrols |
U-195 | 16 Apr 1944 | 5 May 1945 | 2 patrols (172 days) |
Friedrich Steinfeldt joined the Kriegsmarine in 1940 and after completing his courses he served on the 38th Minesweeping Flotilla from December 1941 to June 1942 when he started his U-boat training. He then served as 2WO (second Watch Officer) on the U-371 (Kptlt. Waldemar Mehl) from November 1942 to February 1943.
In February 1943 Steinfeldt joined the U-195, his future command, as IWO (first Watch Officer) and he served in that role for 6 months before being shipped to U-boat commander school at Neustadt in August. He completed his training in October 1943 and was then given the ex-Italian boat UIT-21 on 14 October 1943. That boat, planned as transport, was never commissioned and on 16 April 1944 Steinfeldt took command of his old boat U-195 at Bordeaux, France.
On 24 August 1944 he took his U-195 to the Indian Ocean on a 119-day-long patrol ending in Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesia. Steinfeldt surrendered his boat to the Japanese at Soerabaja, Indonesia (Niestlé, 1998).
Friedrich Steinfeldt died on on 29 Nov, 1945 at a hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia from dysentery (Wiggins, 1999).
Sources
Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1999). German U-boat commanders of World War II.
Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1997). Der U-Bootkrieg 1939-1945 (Band 2).
Niestlé, A. (1998). German U-boat losses during World War II.
Wiggins, M. (1999). U-boat adventures.
Patrol info for Friedrich Steinfeldt
U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
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1. | U-195 | 24 Aug 1944 | Bordeaux | 28 Dec 1944 | Batavia | Patrol 1, | 127 days | |
2. | U-195 | 19 Jan 1945 | Batavia | 4 Mar 1945 | Batavia | Patrol 2, | 45 days | |
3. | U-195 | 5 Mar 1945 | Batavia | 7 Mar 1945 | Soerabaja | 3 days | ||
2 patrols, 172 days at sea |
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