Wilhelm Rollmann
Fregattenkapitän (Crew 26)
Successes 20 ships sunk, total tonnage 96,562 GRT 2 warships sunk, total tonnage 1,770 tons 2 ships sunk, total tonnage 4,957 GRT 1 warship a total loss, total tonnage 595 tons |
Born | 5 Aug 1907 | Wilhelmshaven | |
Died | 5 Nov 1943 | (36) | South Atlantic |
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U-boat Commands
U-boat | From | To | |
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U-34 | 26 Oct 1938 | 28 Sep 1940 | 7 patrols (190 days) |
U-847 | 26 Jan 1943 | 26 Jan 1943 | No war patrols (Transit) |
U-848 | 20 Feb 1943 | 5 Nov 1943 (+) | 1 patrol (49 days) |
Wilhelm Rollmann joined the Reichsmarine in in April 1926. After serving on several ships, including the light cruiser Karlsruhe, in May 1937 he transferred to the U-boat force. After a thorough pre-war training he took over command of the type VIIA U-boat U-34 in October 1938. Two of his more notable successes were the sinking of the British destroyer HMS Whirlwind and the British submarine Spearfish.
After seven successful patrols he left the boat and became an instructor in the 2nd ULD (Unterseeboots-Lehr-Division).
On 20 February 1943 he commissioned the large type IXD2 U-848. The boat was sunk with all hands on her first patrol by US aircraft southwest of Ascension Island, in the South Atlantic on 5 November 1943. (Niestlé, 1998).
Sources
Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1999). German U-boat commanders of World War II.
Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1997). Der U-Bootkrieg 1939-1945 (Band 2).
Niestlé, A. (1998). German U-boat losses during World War II.
Rohwer, J. (1998). Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two.
Patrol info for Wilhelm Rollmann
U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
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1. | U-34 | 19 Aug 1939 | Wilhelmshaven | 26 Sep 1939 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol 1, | 39 days | |
2. | U-34 | 17 Oct 1939 | Wilhelmshaven | 12 Nov 1939 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol 2, | 27 days | |
3. | U-34 | 1 Jan 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | 6 Feb 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol 3, | 37 days | |
4. | U-34 | 11 Mar 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | 30 Mar 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol 4, | 20 days | |
5. | U-34 | 3 Apr 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | 30 Apr 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol 5, | 28 days | |
6. | U-34 | 22 Jun 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | 18 Jul 1940 | Lorient | Patrol 6, | 27 days | |
7. | U-34 | 23 Jul 1940 | Lorient | 3 Aug 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol 7, | 12 days | |
8. | U-848 | 18 Sep 1943 | Kiel | 5 Nov 1943 | Sunk | Patrol 8, | 49 days | |
8 patrols, 239 days at sea |
Ships hit by Wilhelm Rollmann
Date | U-boat | Commander | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | ||
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7 Sep 1939 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Pukkastan | 5,809 | br | |||
8 Sep 1939 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Kennebec | 5,548 | br | |||
24 Sep 1939 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Hanonia (c.) | 1,781 | es | |||
20 Oct 1939 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Gustaf Adolf | 926 | sw | |||
20 Oct 1939 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Sea Venture | 2,327 | br | |||
27 Oct 1939 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Bronte | 5,317 | br | OB-25 | ||
29 Oct 1939 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Malabar | 7,976 | br | HX-5A | ||
9 Nov 1939 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Snar (c.) | 3,176 | nw | |||
20 Jan 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Caroni River [Mine] | 7,807 | br | |||
28 Jan 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Eleni Stathatou | 5,625 | gr | |||
13 Apr 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | HNoMS Frøya (t.) | 595 | nw | |||
5 Jul 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | HMS Whirlwind (D 30) | 1,100 | br | |||
6 Jul 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Vapper | 4,543 | es | |||
7 Jul 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Lucrecia | 2,584 | nl | |||
9 Jul 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Tiiu | 1,865 | es | |||
10 Jul 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Petsamo | 4,596 | fi | |||
11 Jul 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Janna | 2,197 | nw | HX-54 | ||
15 Jul 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Evdoxia | 2,018 | gr | |||
17 Jul 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Naftilos | 3,531 | gr | |||
26 Jul 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Accra | 9,337 | br | OB-188 | ||
26 Jul 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Vinemoor | 4,359 | br | OB-188 | ||
27 Jul 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Sambre | 5,260 | br | OB-188 | ||
27 Jul 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Thiara | 10,364 | br | OB-188 | ||
1 Aug 1940 | U-34 | Wilhelm Rollmann | HMS Spearfish (N 69) | 670 | br | |||
2 Nov 1943 | U-848 | Wilhelm Rollmann | Baron Semple | 4,573 | br | |||
103,884 | ||||||||
25 ships sunk (103,884 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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