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Helmut
Herglotz. born on March 15th, 1918 in Berndorf, Wiener Neustadt (Austria).
Kriegsmarine Crew 1938. On the back it is written: 3.11.1938. |
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Infantry training. |
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"Parade in the launching of the
Ziorgits" (hardly legible writing, the name can be other). |
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"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. |
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Top and left : "Pernambuk". |
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Left: "at the top left, that´s
me". |
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Passage of the equator (or similar celebration). |
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"Santa Cruz" (Tenerife, Spain). |
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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. |
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Right: "December 1939". |
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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.
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Commissioning of a torpedo boat (seemingly). |
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Unidentified boats.
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Interior of a ship (seemingly torpedo
boat). In the middle, Herglotz's wife. |
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Kriegsmarine officers. Herglotz first
from the left. |
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Unidentified Boat. |
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Herglotz (in the middle) and other two officials with their wives. |
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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).
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U
138: 01.1941 - 04.1941 22.
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U 143.
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"January 1941", U 138 (IID) Commander Franz Gramitzky with
the white cap (Herglotz IWO at the front-left).
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Herglotz I WO on U 138 orU 143 (IID). |
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Top and following two photos: commander
and crew of U 138. |
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Series of photos showing the entrance
to port of a type IID U-Boat. |
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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. |
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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).
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Detail of the photo: Kl Reinhard von
Hymmen (left, right is Herglotz, I WO). |
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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.
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Commissioning ceremony for U 408 (19.11.1941). With a white cap, Commander
von Hymmen. |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). Commander von Hymmen and wife. |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941).
Remark the emblem of the U-Boat (triangle) and the solitary gun on
the "Wintergarten". |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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U 408. |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941). |
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Commissioning of U 408 (19.11.1941).
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Exit of the U 408. |
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Exit. |
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Commander von Hymmen (in the middle)
and officers of U 408 (right, Herglotz). |
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Exit. |
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Exit. |
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Conning tower of U 408. |
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Conning tower of U 408. |
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Back deck of U 408. |
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Idem. |
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Conning tower of U 408. |
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Idem. |
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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. |
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On the conning tower of a type VII
U-Boat, maybe U 408.
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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. |
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Herglotz as I WO of the U 408
in Norway. |
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Herglotz as I WO of U 408; Photo dedicated
to its wife in January 1942. |
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Photo difficult to locate. The man
who signs an autograph is almost surely Goebbels. To the right, commander
Georg-Wilhelm Schulz. |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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January 1943. Herglotz as commander
of U 2. |
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Herglotz (up, without cap) on U 2 in March 1943.
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U 2 was one of the 14 U-Boats witch emblems carried the swastika. |
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Herglotz (up and left, without cap). |
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Crew of U 2. |
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Conning tower of U 2. Right, the U-Boat in the Baltic ice in the winter
of 1942-43. |
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Tower's hatch of U 2. |
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Back deck of the U 2. |
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Periscope, probably of U 2.
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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
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Left and down: conning tower of the U 290 in Norway.
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Left and down: in the conning tower and "winter garden" of
the U 290. |
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Visit in the Wintergarten of U 290:
at the left a civilian, in the center-right a Wehrmacht officer. |
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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. |
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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.
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U 1303 is not identifiable in any photo
of Herglotz. Up and down, officers of another submarine (the commander
is not Herglotz). |
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Crew member on the deck. |
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Officer in the deck. |
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Prow deck of U 290. Remark the capsules
of the dinghies. |
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Herglotz observes a German warship. |
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Up and down, pictures made by the wife of Herglotz in a visit. |
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At the left, with Korvettenkapitän
uniform, Hans Rudolf Rösing. |
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Herglotz (up and left) with other officers, maybe from
his Kriegsmarine Crew. |