Max Wintermeyer

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 34)

Successes
1 ship sunk, total tonnage 7,015 GRT

Born	2 Feb 1914		Essen
Died	4 May 1990	(76)

Ranks

8 Apr 1934		Offiziersanwärter
1 Jul 1935		Fähnrich zur See
1 Jan 1937		Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Apr 1937		Leutnant zur See
1 Apr 1939		Oberleutnant zur See
1 Apr 1942		Kapitänleutnant

Decorations

		Iron Cross 2nd Class
		Iron Cross 1st Class
		U-boat War Badge 1939

U-boat Commands

U-boat	From	To
U-62	Sep, 1941	4 Nov 1941	No war patrols
U-190	24 Sep 1942	5 Jul 1944	4 patrols (348 days)

Max Wintermeyer joined the Kriegsmarine as part of Crew 34 in April 1934. He served as the First Watch Officer (IWO) on the U-105, going out on 2 patrols spending over 150 days at sea. From July to Sept 1941 he went through the U-boat commander course at the 24th (Training) Flotilla .

He took command of the small school boat U-62 in Sept, holding the command until 4 Nov. Wintermeyer served as an instructor with the 1st ULD at Neustadt (Pillau) from Nov 1941 to Aug 1942 when he was assigned to oversee construction of a new U-boat (Baubelehrung). He took command of the larger and brand new U-190 on 24 Sept 1942.

With his U-190 he went out on 4 patrols spending almost 350 days at sea - no mean feat especially as his first patrol was in Feb 1943 when things started to go really bad for the U-boat fleet. He left the boat on 5 July 1944 and served in several staff positions until the end of the war.

Sources

Busch, R & Röll, H-J. (1998). German U-boat commanders of World War II.

Patrol info for Max Wintermeyer

	U-boat	Departure		Arrival
1.	U-190	20 Feb 1943	Kiel	30 Mar 1943	Lorient	Patrol 1,	39 days
2.	U-190	1 May 1943	Lorient	19 Aug 1943	Lorient	Patrol 2,	111 days
3.	U-190	30 Sep 1943	Lorient	1 Oct 1943	Brest		2 days
4.	U-190	7 Oct 1943	Brest	15 Jan 1944	Lorient	Patrol 3,	101 days
5.	U-190	7 Mar 1944	Lorient	8 Mar 1944	Lorient		2 days
6.	U-190	11 Mar 1944	Lorient	12 Mar 1944	Lorient		2 days
7.	U-190	16 Mar 1944	Lorient	20 Jun 1944	Lorient	Patrol 4,	97 days
4 patrols, 348 days at sea

Ships hit by Max Wintermeyer

Date	U-boat	Name of ship	Tons		Convoy
8 Mar 1943	U-190	Empire Lakeland	7,015	br	SC-121
			7,015
1 ship sunk (7,015 tons).

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.