Helmut Köster

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 34)

No ships sunk or damaged.

Born	25 Apr 1914		Geestemünde Kronenbitter
Died	21 Dec 1941	(27)

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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 Dec 1941		Kapitänleutnant

U-boat Commands

U-boat	From	To
U-72	Sep, 1941	1 Dec 1941	No war patrols

Kptlt. Helmut Köster died on U-567 while serving as a supernumerary Watch Officer (WO) under the famous Engelbert Endrass (Busch & Röll, 1999).

Patrol info for Helmut Köster

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.