Hans-Dieter Mohs

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 37b)

Successes
1 warship sunk, total tonnage 1,190 tons
1 ship a total loss, total tonnage 7,176 GRT

Born	22 Sep 1919		Magdeburg
Died	10 Mar 2009	(89)	Bonn, Germany

Ranks

9 Oct 1937		Offiziersanwärter
28 Jun 1938		Seekadett
1 Apr 1939		Fähnrich zur See
1 Mar 1940		Oberfähnrich zur See
1 May 1940		Leutnant zur See
1 Apr 1942		Oberleutnant zur See
1 Jan 1945		Kapitänleutnant

Decorations

		Iron Cross 2nd Class
		Iron Cross 1st Class
		U-boat Front Clasp
6 Feb 1945		German Cross in Gold

U-boat Commands

U-boat	From	To
U-5	26 Mar 1942	May, 1942	No war patrols
U-60	May, 1942	6 Dec 1942	No war patrols
U-956	6 Jan 1943	13 May 1945	13 patrols (316 days)

Patrol info for Hans-Dieter Mohs

	U-boat	Departure		Arrival
1.	U-956	3 Aug 1943	Kiel	6 Aug 1943	Bergen		4 days
2.	U-956	14 Aug 1943	Bergen	17 Aug 1943	Narvik		4 days
3.	U-956	18 Aug 1943	Narvik	13 Sep 1943	Narvik	Patrol 1,	27 days
4.	U-956	23 Sep 1943	Narvik	4 Nov 1943	Narvik	Patrol 2,	43 days
5.	U-956	5 Nov 1943	Narvik	8 Nov 1943	Bergen		4 days
6.	U-956	28 Dec 1943	Bergen	7 Jan 1944	Narvik	Patrol 3,	11 days
7.	U-956	8 Jan 1944	Narvik	18 Jan 1944	Skjomenfjord	Patrol 4,	11 days
8.	U-956	25 Jan 1944	Skjomenfjord	2 Feb 1944	Hammerfest	Patrol 5,	9 days
9.	U-956	15 Feb 1944	Hammerfest	2 Mar 1944	Narvik	Patrol 6,	17 days
10.	U-956	23 Mar 1944	Narvik	8 Apr 1944	Narvik	Patrol 7,	17 days
11.	U-956	9 Apr 1944	Narvik	12 Apr 1944	Bergen		4 days
12.	U-956	3 Jun 1944	Bergen	8 Jun 1944	Narvik		6 days
13.	U-956	9 Jun 1944	Narvik	10 Jun 1944	Hammerfest		2 days
14.	U-956	23 Jun 1944	Hammerfest	23 Jun 1944	Hammerfest		1 days
15.	U-956	26 Jun 1944	Hammerfest	24 Jul 1944	Harstad	Patrol 8,	29 days
16.	U-956	24 Jul 1944	Harstad	24 Jul 1944	Narvik		1 days
17.	U-956	27 Aug 1944	Narvik	28 Aug 1944	Tromsö		2 days
18.	U-956	28 Aug 1944	Tromsö	28 Aug 1944	Hammerfest		1 days
19.	U-956	29 Aug 1944	Hammerfest	5 Sep 1944	Hammerfest	Patrol 9,	8 days
20.	U-956	6 Sep 1944	Hammerfest	8 Sep 1944	Skjomenfjord		3 days
21.	U-956	14 Sep 1944	Skjomenfjord	3 Oct 1944	Narvik	Patrol 10,	20 days
22.	U-956	15 Oct 1944	Narvik	24 Nov 1944	Narvik	Patrol 11,	41 days
23.	U-956	11 Dec 1944	Narvik	20 Jan 1945	Narvik	Patrol 12,	41 days
24.	U-956	22 Jan 1945	Narvik	25 Jan 1945	Trondheim		4 days
25.	U-956	2 Apr 1945	Trondheim	13 May 1945	Loch Eriboll, UK	Patrol 13,	42 days
13 patrols, 316 days at sea

Ships hit by Hans-Dieter Mohs

Date	U-boat	Name of ship	Tons		Convoy
30 Dec 1944	U-956	Tbilisi (t.)	7,176	sj	KP-24

16 Jan 1945	U-956	Dejatelnyj	1,190	sj	KB-1
			8,366
2 ships sunk (8,366 tons). Legend We have a picture of this vessel. (t.) means the ship was a total loss (included in ships & tonnage lost).

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.