The Men - U-boat Commanders

Herbert Giesewetter

Oberleutnant zur See (Crew XII/39)



No ships sunk or damaged.


Born  9 Sep 1922 Emmerich, Rhineland

Ranks

1 Dec 1939 Offiziersanwärter
1 Nov 1940 Fähnrich zur See
1 Nov 1941 Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Apr 1942 Leutnant zur See
1 Dec 1943 Oberleutnant zur See

Decorations

U-boat Commands

U-boatFromTo
U-60 16 Feb 1944 28 Feb 1945   No war patrols 
U-368 Jan, 1945 27 Apr 1945   No war patrols 

Patrol info for Herbert Giesewetter

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.

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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