U-107 - Die erfolgreichste Feindfahrt eines U-Bootes im Zweiten Weltkrieg - Buch

Captain Knight Günter Hessler on patrol with Ritterkreuz carrier. This is the story of Lieutenant General Günter Hessler, the first commander of U 107. Born on June 14, 1909 in Beerfelde in Märkisches Oderland, he joined the Reichsmarine in April 1927. After passing training and various training courses were made as a division lieutenant and from spring 1938 as a training officer on the battleship Silesia. In the meantime he was used until September 1936 as a watch officer on the torpedo boat Greif and the cricket, the so-called Hitler's yacht. At the outbreak of the war from March 1939 to March 1940 used as a commander of the torpedo boat Falcon, he moved in April 1940 to the submarine gun and put on various submarine training on October 8, 1940 as commander U 107 in service. U 107 he led in 1941 on three operations in the North and Central Atlantic to Sierra Leone on the West African coast. He and his crew, especially on their second mission from 29 March to 2 July 1941 gained fame, because at this legendary venture in the Mid-Atlantic and Freetown they managed to sink fourteen ships with 86,699 gross register tons, what this ride to successful enemy drive of a German submarine of World War II. On June 24, 1941 Günter Hessler was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his achievements in the submarine war. After his third enemy trip with U 107 and the sinking of twenty-one ships with a total of 118,822 gross register tons was carried out in late November 1941, his transfer as the 1st Admiralsstabsoffizier in the staff of the Commander of the submarines, where he also experienced the end of the war. After a temporary release from captivity in October 1945, he appeared in the Nuremberg war crimes trial as a witness to the defense of his father-in-law Karl Doenitz and then came back to American captivity. In the post-war period, he set up a small mechanical engineering company, with which he was very successful in the German and European markets. Günter Hessler died on 4 April 1968.

Hardcover: 240 pages

Language: German

Size and / or weight: 18 x 2.2 x 24.6 cm