Herbert Kuppisch
Kapitänleutnant (Crew 32)
| Successes 15 ships sunk, total tonnage 73,707 GRT 1 auxiliary warship sunk, total tonnage 8,401 GRT |
| Born | 10 Dec 1909 | Hamburg | |
| Died | 27 Aug 1943 | (33) | Middle Atlantic (Sargasso Sea) |
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Ranks
Decorations
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
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| U-58 | 4 Feb 1939 | 30 Jun 1940 | 8 patrols (130 days) |
| U-94 | 10 Aug 1940 | 29 Aug 1941 | 5 patrols (178 days) |
| U-516 | 24 Jun 1943 | 30 Jun 1943 | No war patrols |
| U-847 | 1 Jul 1943 | 27 Aug 1943 (+) | 1 patrol (30 days) |
 Kptlt. Kuppisch after a patrol. |
Herbert Kuppisch began his naval career in 1933. He was one of those few officers who spent their entire careers in the U-boat force. He commanded U-58 and U-94 very successfully, and then spent over a year on the staff of BdU op.
In December 1942 he transferred for six months to the High Command of the Kriegsmarine (OKM), and then returned to patrol status in July 1943, taking command of the rype IXD2 boat U-847.
On her first patrol U-847 supported a few U-boats after the loss of two Milch Cows. On 27 August, 1943 she was sunk with all hands by aircraft from the US escort carrier USS Card (Niestlé, 1998).
Sources
Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1998). German U-boat commanders of World War II.
Niestlé, A. (1998). German U-boat losses during World War II.
Patrol info for Herbert Kuppisch
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | U-58 | 25 Aug 1939 | Wilhelmshaven | 9 Sep 1939 | Kiel | Patrol 1, | 16 days | |
| 2. | U-58 | 23 Oct 1939 | Kiel | 10 Nov 1939 | Kiel | Patrol 2, | 19 days | |
| 3. | U-58 | 29 Nov 1939 | Kiel | 5 Dec 1939 | Kiel | Patrol 3, | 7 days | |
| 4. | U-58 | 27 Dec 1939 | Kiel | 8 Jan 1940 | Kiel | Patrol 4, | 13 days | |
| 5. | U-58 | 20 Jan 1940 | Kiel | 25 Jan 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol 5, | 6 days | |
| 6. | U-58 | 27 Jan 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | 8 Feb 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol 6, | 13 days | |
| 7. | U-58 | 31 Mar 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | 3 May 1940 | Kiel | Patrol 7, | 34 days | |
| 8. | U-58 | 27 May 1940 | Kiel | 17 Jun 1940 | Kiel | Patrol 8, | 22 days | |
| 9. | U-94 | 20 Nov 1940 | Kiel | 31 Dec 1940 | Lorient | Patrol 9, | 42 days | |
| 10. | U-94 | 9 Jan 1941 | Lorient | 19 Feb 1941 | Lorient | Patrol 10, | 42 days | |
| 11. | U-94 | 29 Mar 1941 | Lorient | 18 Apr 1941 | Lorient | Patrol 11, | 21 days | |
| 12. | U-94 | 29 Apr 1941 | Lorient | 4 Jun 1941 | St. Nazaire | Patrol 12, | 37 days | |
| 13. | U-94 | 12 Jul 1941 | St. Nazaire | 16 Aug 1941 | St. Nazaire | Patrol 13, | 36 days | |
| 14. | U-847 | 6 Jul 1943 | Kiel | 20 Jul 1943 | Bergen | 15 days | ||
| 15. | U-847 | 29 Jul 1943 | Bergen | 27 Aug 1943 | Sunk | Patrol 14, | 30 days | |
| 14 patrols, 338 days at sea | ||||||||
Ships hit by Herbert Kuppisch
| Date | U-boat | Commander | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan 1940 | U-58 | Herbert Kuppisch |  | Lars Magnus Trozelli | 1,951 |  | sw | |
| 3 Jan 1940 | U-58 | Herbert Kuppisch | | Svartön | 2,475 | | sw | HN-6 |
| 3 Feb 1940 | U-58 | Herbert Kuppisch | | Reet | 815 |  | es | |
| 1 Jun 1940 | U-58 | Herbert Kuppisch | | HMS Astronomer | 8,401 |  | br | |
| 2 Dec 1940 | U-94 | Herbert Kuppisch | | Stirlingshire | 6,022 | | br | HX-90 |
| 2 Dec 1940 | U-94 | Herbert Kuppisch | | Wilhelmina | 6,725 | | br | HX-90 |
| 11 Dec 1940 | U-94 | Herbert Kuppisch | | Empire Statesman | 5,306 | | br | SLS-56 |
| 20 Jan 1941 | U-94 | Herbert Kuppisch | Florian | 3,174 | | br | ||
| 29 Jan 1941 | U-94 | Herbert Kuppisch | | West Wales | 4,353 | | br | SC-19 |
| 30 Jan 1941 | U-94 | Herbert Kuppisch | | Rushpool | 5,125 | | br | SC-19 |
| 4 Apr 1941 | U-94 | Herbert Kuppisch | | Harbledown | 5,414 | | br | SC-26 |
| 6 Apr 1941 | U-94 | Herbert Kuppisch | | Lincoln Ellsworth | 5,580 |  | nw | |
| 7 May 1941 | U-94 | Herbert Kuppisch | | Ixion | 10,263 | | br | OB-318 |
| 7 May 1941 | U-94 | Herbert Kuppisch | Eastern Star | 5,658 | | nw | OB-318 | |
| 20 May 1941 | U-94 | Herbert Kuppisch | Norman Monarch | 4,718 | | br | HX-126 | |
| 20 May 1941 | U-94 | Herbert Kuppisch | | John P. Pedersen | 6,128 | | nw | HX-126 |
| 82,108 | ||||||||
16 ships sunk (82,108 tons). Legend | ||||||||
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.
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