333 Original Pictures of U-Boats. Part II: pictures property of Hermut Herglotz

333 Original Pictures of U-Boats
Collection S. Mata
Part II: pictures property of Hermut Herglotz

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TYPE XXI

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PICTURES 1

GRADES

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WARSHIPS

Helmut Herglotz. born on March 15th, 1918 in Berndorf, Wiener Neustadt (Austria). Kriegsmarine Crew 1938. On the back it is written: 3.11.1938.

Infantry training.

"Parade in the launching of the Ziorgits" (hardly legible writing, the name can be other).

"Pernambuk"

Albert Leo Schlageter, twin ship of the GORCH FOCK, launched on July 15th, 1937. Commissioned on October 30th, 1937, shortly after that, the Schlageter mades a trip to South America and before the war, to Tenerife, Copenhagen and Pernambuco.

Top and left : "Pernambuk".

Left: "at the top left, that´s me".

Passage of the equator (or similar celebration).

"Santa Cruz" (Tenerife, Spain).

Students of the naval academy (and not only they: the one whit the flat cap can an officer) draging wood ducks on the streets of Kiel.

Right: "December 1939".

Herglotz served from October 14th,1940 in the torpedo boat "T 2" (Type 1935). T2 - Commanders: Kl. Bätge 12.1939 - 09.1940; Kl. Gödecke 09.1940 - 02.1942.

Commissioning of a torpedo boat (seemingly).

Unidentified boats.

Interior of a ship (seemingly torpedo boat). In the middle, Herglotz's wife.

Kriegsmarine officers. Herglotz first from the left.

Unidentified Boat.

Herglotz (in the middle) and other two officials with their wives.

After an officer's wedding; Herglotz third from the right in the mid row.

Herglotz in the submarine arm:

Until April 1941: UWO-training in Pillau. 28.3.-17.4.1941 I WO in U 138 (commander: Franz Gramitzky January 1st, 1941-June 18th, 1941 captured, promoted to Kl 1.8.43).

April 18th - September 20th, 1941: First Sentry Officer (I WO) of U 143 (4 patrols North-Minch, Nord Kanal). Commander Harald Gelhaus 31.3.41-18/30.11.41.

Course of commander: 7, K.L.A . (Kriegsschiffbaulehrabteilung) 10/41-11/41

12.10.1941-10.10.1942 I WO of U 408 (VIIC), in the Arctic. Commanders (19.11.41-5.11.42): Kl Reinhard von Hymmen (1,11,42 KK, +5,11,42 in the Arctic, north of Iceland).

U 138: 01.1941 - 04.1941 22.

U 143.

"January 1941", U 138 (IID) Commander Franz Gramitzky with the white cap (Herglotz IWO at the front-left).

Herglotz I WO on U 138 orU 143 (IID).

Top and following two photos: commander and crew of U 138.

Series of photos showing the entrance to port of a type IID U-Boat.

Herglotz escaped 4 years prison by being designated to the 143 (18.4.-20.9.1941). U 138 was sunk on 18.06.1941 and the whole crew (27) captured.

U-Boot type IID in the ice of a Baltic port.

U 408: commissioned: 19.11.1941, Commander: Kl Reinhard von Hymmen. Sunk: 05.11.1942 north of Iceland on 67.40N, 18.32W, by depth charges of the North American Catalina VP-84/H. 45 deads (all hand lost).

Detail of the photo: Kl Reinhard von Hymmen (left, right is Herglotz, I WO).

Commissioning ceremony of U 408, called "Da 109" in the documentation of the shipyard (DANZIGER WERFT Aktiengesellschaft). Down, another photo of the crew the same day.

Commissioning ceremony for U 408 (19.11.1941). With a white cap, Commander von Hymmen.

Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). Commander von Hymmen and wife.

Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). Remark the emblem of the U-Boat (triangle) and the solitary gun on the "Wintergarten".

Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941).

U 408.

Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941).

Exit of the U 408.

Exit.

Commander von Hymmen (in the middle) and officers of U 408 (right, Herglotz).

Exit.

Conning tower of U 408.

Back deck of U 408.

Idem.

Conning tower of U 408.

Idem.

U-Boot with similar weaponry as U 408..

Herglotz was on two patrols in the Artic with U 408: in the morning of 1.7.1942 this submarine and the U 255 discovered the convoy PQ.17 about 60 miles east of Jan Mayen. Herglotz was lucky of not being aboard of the U 408 in the third patrol: on 5.11.1942 the submarine was sunk and the whole crew (45) lost.

On the conning tower of a type VII U-Boat, maybe U 408.

Torpedo room in the prow of an U-Boot type VII.

Right and down: series of photos of a type VII U-Boat, taken from U 408. Herglotz was in Norway also from 1944 as commander of U 290, the scarce artillery on the tower suggests that it is the previous period.

Herglotz as I WO of the U 408 in Norway.

Herglotz as I WO of U 408; Photo dedicated to its wife in January 1942.

Photo difficult to locate. The man who signs an autograph is almost surely Goebbels. To the right, commander Georg-Wilhelm Schulz.

Career of Herglotz as commander:

Training: 2. U-Ausbildungslehrgang (U.A.A. = U-Boots-Fahrausbildung) and 24. U-Flottille 10/42-11/42.

20.11.1942-12.12.1943: Commander of the U 2 (IIA) Schulflottille Pillau.

29.12.1943-27.4.1945 Commander of the U 290 (VIIC), Norway, Finnbusen.

4.45-4.5.45 until de end of the war commander of the U 1303 (VIIC) Flensburg.

Left: Herglotz on 12.2.1945.

U 2: Type: IIA. 1935. Commissioning: 25.07.1935, Commanders: 07.1935 - 09.1936 Kl Herbert Michahelles. 01.10.1936 - 31.01.1938 Kl Heinrich Liebe. 01.02.1938 - 03.1939 OlzS Herbert Schultze. 03.1939 - 07.1940 Kl Helmut Rosenbaum. 07.1940 - 08.1940 OlzS Hans Heidtmann. 08.1940 - 10.1941 Kl Georg von Willamowitz-Moellendorff. 10.1941 - 15.05.1942 LzS Karl Kölzer. 16.05.1942 - 19.11.1942 OlzS Werner Schwaff. 20.11.1942 - 12.12.1943 OlzS Helmut Herglotz. 13.12.1943 - 04.1944 OlzS Wolfgang Schwarzkopf. Sunk: 08.04.1944 - 07:45, near Pillau by collision with the fishing boat "Helmi Söhle": 17 deads, 18 survivors.

Harmut Herglotz, son of Helmut Herglotz, remembers that his father told that, being submerged during an exercise, they collided with another submarine, that destroyed the tower of U 2. At the left, Herglotz as commander of this type II U-Boot, that can be only U 2.

January 1943. Herglotz as commander of U 2.

Herglotz (up, without cap) on U 2 in March 1943.

U 2 was one of the 14 U-Boats witch emblems carried the swastika.

Herglotz (up and left, without cap).

Crew of U 2.

Conning tower of U 2. Right, the U-Boat in the Baltic ice in the winter of 1942-43.

Tower's hatch of U 2.

Back deck of the U 2.

Periscope, probably of U 2.

U 290: Type: VII C. Commissioned: 24.07.1943, Commanders: 24.07.1943 - 26.12.1943 Kl Hartmut Strenger. 27.12.1943 - 04.1945 OlzS Helmut Herglotz. Sunk: 05.05.1945 by the own crew. Photos down: January 1944. Herglotz als Commander of U 290.

Left and down: conning tower of the U 290 in Norway.

Left and down: in the conning tower and "winter garden" of the U 290.

Visit in the Wintergarten of U 290: at the left a civilian, in the center-right a Wehrmacht officer.

The U 290 was attacked the 14.6.44 by a norwegian Mosquito of the 333 Squadron and, with 8 injured, has to suspend the patrol. Repair actions lasted until August.

U-Boot type VII in Norway. It can be U 290 or another with Schnorchel.

U 1303: Type: VIIC. Commissioned: 05.04.1944, Commanders: 05.04.44 - 04,45 OlzS Heinz Baum. 04.1945-05.05.1945 OlzS Helmut Herglotz. Sunk: 04.05.1945 by the own crew.