From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hans Witt
Hans Witt
Hans-Ludwig Witt Awards
Born 25 December 1909(1909-12-25) • Iron Cross (1939)
Bautzen
• 2nd Class (23 August 1942)
Died 13 February 1980(1980-02-13) (aged 70) • 1st Class (23 August 1942)
Hamburg-Poppenbüttel • U-boat War Badge (1939) (23 August 1942)
Allegiance • U-boat Front Clasp (7 October 1944)
Weimar Republic (to 1933)
• Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross on 17 December 1942
Nazi Germany as Kapitänleutnant and commander of U-129[2]
Service/branch Reichsmarine
Kriegsmarine References
Years of service 1929–1945 [1] "Korvettenkapitän Hans-Ludwig Witt". uboat.net.
http://uboat.net/men/witt.htm. Retrieved 20 April
Rank Korvettenkapitän
2010.
Commands held U-161 [2] Scherzer 2007, p. 791.
U-129 Bibliography
U-3524
• Busch, Rainer & Röll, Hans-Joachim (2003). Der U-
Awards Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross Boot-Krieg 1939-1945 - Die Ritterkreuzträger der U-Boot-
Waffe von September 1939 bis Mai 1945 (in German).
Hans-Ludwig Witt (25 December 1909 in Bautzen—13 Fe- Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn Germany: Verlag E.S. Mittler
bruary 1980 in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel) was a German U- & Sohn. ISBN 3-8132-0515-0.
boat commander in World War II and recipient of the • Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000). Die Träger des
Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross. With nineteen ships Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945. Friedburg,
sunk for a total of 100,773 gross register tons (GRT), he Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
was the thirty-second highest scoring U-Boat ace of • Kurowski, Franz (1995). Knight’s Cross Holders of the U-
World War II. Boat Service. Schiffer Publishing Ltd. ISBN
0-88740-748-X.
Career • Range, Clemens (1974). Die Ritterkreuzträger der
Kriegsmarine. Stuttgart, Germany: Motorbuch Verlag.
Witt joined the Reichsmarine in 1929, and in October 1940 ISBN 3-87943-355-0.
entered U-boat training, taking command of U-161 as part • Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945
of training flotilla 4th U-boat Flotilla in July 1941. He then Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939
took command of U-129 as a member of 2nd U-boat Flotil- von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm
la in May 1942. Witt sailed on three successful combat pa- sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den
trols in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean between Unterlagen des Bundesarchives (in German). Jena,
May 1942 and July 1943, sinking 19 ships for a total of Germany: Scherzers Miltaer-Verlag. ISBN
100,773 GRT, including Mexican tankers Tuxpam and Las 978-3-938845-17-2.
Choapas.
Witt spent a year on the BdU staff, before returning
to active duty in January 1945 commanding U-3524, one
External links
of the new Type XXI Elektroboote that were commissioned • uboat.net: Hans-Ludwig Witt
under highly-decorated U-boat commanders (like Sch- Persondata
nee, Cremer, Emmermann and Topp) in an attempt to
Name Witt, Hans-Ludwig
turn the tide in the battle of the Atlantic. However, Witt
sailed on no combat patrols and sank no ships in his new Alternative
U-boat. He died in 1980.[1] names
Short descrip- German World War II U-boat com-
tion mander
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hans Witt
Date of birth 25 December 1909 Place of death Hamburg-Poppenbüttel
Place of birth Bautzen
Date of death 13 February 1980
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