U-Boot Soldier

[Kongo Otto]

Hi Guys
does anybody knows who this Man is:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101II-MS-0976-18%2C_Ordensverleihung_an_U-Boot-Besatzung.jpg

[kuchciol]

How many bootsmanmaats with the Deutsches Kreuz were there? I guess not THAT many, maybe in the hundreds. I couldn't find a list of the DK recipients, but it shouldn't be that difficult if you really wanted to find it.

[Mittelwaechter]

Here is a list!

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=1153128

The foto says '42/'43 but we can't know when his German Cross was granted.

You may want to ask in the German Ubi forums?

[kuchciol]

We do know that the man has been awarded the medals before the photo was taken i.e. before 1943 at the latest. We know the man's grade at the moment of taking the photo, yet we do not know he's grade while being given the DK.
I searched the list provided by Mittelwaechter (looking for bootsmannsmaats awarded the DK before or in 1943) and here's some names:

U-43
DKiG
Büttner, Kurt 07.08.1943 Bootsmannsmaat

U-94
DKiG
Fabig, Walter 18.06.1942 Bootsmannsmaat

U-109
Seidel, Berthold 10.11.1942 Bootsmannsmaat

U-128
DKiG
Böhme, Walter 23.02.1943 Bootsmannsmaat

U-198

Hoffmann, Paul 22.12.1943 Bootsmannsmaat
Katzelberger, Leopold 22.12.1943 Bootsmannsmaat

U-331

DKiG
Schmidt, Heinrich 06.06.1942 Bootsmannsmaat

U-453

DKiG
Gollan, Reinhold 28.01.1943 Bootsmannsmaat

U-559
Brückner, Franz 15.02.1943 Bootsmannsmaat

U-565
Seifried, Hermann 17.12.1942 Bootsmannsmaat

U-596
Schley, Max 04.01.1943 Bootsmannsmaat

U-614
DKiG
Wollbrandt, Alfred 07.08.1943 Bootsmannsmaat

U-616

DKiG
Storck, Karl 24.06.1943 Bootsmannsmaat

I might've missed someone, and the list may not be complete anyway. Also my assumption that he's been a boosmannsmaat at the moment of receiving the DK might be wrong. If I am erong at some point, do not hesitate to correct me.