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Name: WILLI BAUMERT
Date of Birth: 05NOV14
Place of Birth: BAD SCHWARTAU
Date of Intake: 01APR36 (CREW 36)
Promotions
06DEC36 SEEKADETT
01NOV37 FÄHNRICH Z. S.
01NOV38 OBERFÄHNRICH Z. S.
01APR39 LEUTNANT Z. S.
22OCT40 OBERLEUTNANT Z. S.
Medals
NIL
Badges
NIL
U-Bootwaffe Postings
19SEP39 U-Boat Flotilla Weddigen (Commander training)
01OCT40 2nd Flotilla (3 patrols)
U-Boat Commands
01OCT40 U-103, Type IXB (3 patrols)
PatrolDatesShips Sunk
(Merchant/Warship)Tonnage
(Merchant/Warship)Comments1 (file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/The%20Sandman/My%20Documents/Personnel%20Files/SH3/Willi_Baumert/Log_0.html)01OCT40 - 22OCT40 (22 days)5 (5/0)27998 (27998/0)2 (file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/The%20Sandman/My%20Documents/Personnel%20Files/SH3/Willi_Baumert/Log_1.html)09NOV40 - 01JAN41 (54 days)4 (4/0)30156 (30156/0)3 (file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/The%20Sandman/My%20Documents/Personnel%20Files/SH3/Willi_Baumert/Log_2.html)17FEB41 - 07MAR41 (19 days)4 (4/0)34202 (34202/0)U-boat lostTOTALS:3 patrols (95 days)13 (13/0)92356 (92356/0) (file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/The%20Sandman/My%20Documents/Personnel%20Files/SH3/Willi_Baumert/Aces.html)0 enemy planes downed
49 crew lost
Summary
Oberleutnant z. S. Willi Baumert and U-103 surrendered to the Allies on 07MAR41. Willi Baumert was sent to a POW camp in Scotland where he spent the rest of the war. After a year in captivity, Willi Baumert returned in May 1946 and worked on the salvage of sunken ships in the Rhine river. In 1948 with three comrades he built the sailing ship Magellan. They sailed together to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where they started a great regatta. Later he was skipper on several trade ships. In March 1959 he showed great courage as skipper of the freighter Inga Bastian when he and his crew saved 57 survivors from the burning Brazilian ship Commandante Lyra. In 1961 he became captain of the German nuclear research ship Otto Hahn, a post which he held for more than ten years. For his outstanding merit after the war he was decorated in 1974 with the Bundes-Verdienstkreuz am Bande (Federal Merit Cross on ribbon). He was for long years the chairman of the U-Bootskameradschaft Bremen, which bears his name to this day. He died on 18 April 1986 in Bremen.
Name: WILLI BAUMERT
Date of Birth: 05NOV14
Place of Birth: BAD SCHWARTAU
Date of Intake: 01APR36 (CREW 36)
Promotions
06DEC36 SEEKADETT
01NOV37 FÄHNRICH Z. S.
01NOV38 OBERFÄHNRICH Z. S.
01APR39 LEUTNANT Z. S.
22OCT40 OBERLEUTNANT Z. S.
Medals
NIL
Badges
NIL
U-Bootwaffe Postings
19SEP39 U-Boat Flotilla Weddigen (Commander training)
01OCT40 2nd Flotilla (3 patrols)
U-Boat Commands
01OCT40 U-103, Type IXB (3 patrols)
PatrolDatesShips Sunk
(Merchant/Warship)Tonnage
(Merchant/Warship)Comments1 (file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/The%20Sandman/My%20Documents/Personnel%20Files/SH3/Willi_Baumert/Log_0.html)01OCT40 - 22OCT40 (22 days)5 (5/0)27998 (27998/0)2 (file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/The%20Sandman/My%20Documents/Personnel%20Files/SH3/Willi_Baumert/Log_1.html)09NOV40 - 01JAN41 (54 days)4 (4/0)30156 (30156/0)3 (file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/The%20Sandman/My%20Documents/Personnel%20Files/SH3/Willi_Baumert/Log_2.html)17FEB41 - 07MAR41 (19 days)4 (4/0)34202 (34202/0)U-boat lostTOTALS:3 patrols (95 days)13 (13/0)92356 (92356/0) (file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/The%20Sandman/My%20Documents/Personnel%20Files/SH3/Willi_Baumert/Aces.html)0 enemy planes downed
49 crew lost
Summary
Oberleutnant z. S. Willi Baumert and U-103 surrendered to the Allies on 07MAR41. Willi Baumert was sent to a POW camp in Scotland where he spent the rest of the war. After a year in captivity, Willi Baumert returned in May 1946 and worked on the salvage of sunken ships in the Rhine river. In 1948 with three comrades he built the sailing ship Magellan. They sailed together to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where they started a great regatta. Later he was skipper on several trade ships. In March 1959 he showed great courage as skipper of the freighter Inga Bastian when he and his crew saved 57 survivors from the burning Brazilian ship Commandante Lyra. In 1961 he became captain of the German nuclear research ship Otto Hahn, a post which he held for more than ten years. For his outstanding merit after the war he was decorated in 1974 with the Bundes-Verdienstkreuz am Bande (Federal Merit Cross on ribbon). He was for long years the chairman of the U-Bootskameradschaft Bremen, which bears his name to this day. He died on 18 April 1986 in Bremen.